Green Bean

Did I forget to publish my last post from last June??? Yessss.  Better late than never I suppose.


Anyways, Can't get enough of all the amazing, creative green building,sustainability and making art in nature projects floating around the web and happening all around us.  Thinking about making it a little side project to photograph green happenings in the beautiful Berkshires-which of course I will be sharing.  Check out some fun links and pictures below!

Inspiration Green

Soft Rocker

Going, Going...Gone!

Long Days at the gallery...moment of idleness gallery sitting while no one has come in in a bit.  Look at all these motors and wires we've been using to assemble the art pieces!

Had a little time to add on to one of my drawings...not yet completed though!

You have no idea.  (Parts to be assembled for Everything Must Go!)
Picture of the actual art piece will be posted soon!

Oh, and the Opening was a success!

Research and Grants and Capital, Oh My!

I've had some free time the past couple days while my supervisors are busy at work in NYC, so I've been researching my long term project for my internship site which is finding grants and ways of funding for an on site laser cutter which will get the ball rolling for a future Fabrication lab or "fab lab" (sounds way cooler).  Anyways, this is long and arduous work on my brain, and not so good for my gluteus maximus (Seriously just found out that is the correct term.  You can find "bootious maximus on urban dictionary), sitting on my bed listening to the Wilco Solid Sound Festival Lineup (Which is a requirement from my internship to volunteer at-See you at the box office if you're going!) and searching through the interwebs when all of the sudden I came across this coolness...

How to Build a Forest by Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl

Pretty Amazing, huh?  It's going on now till June 26th at The Kitchen in NYC.  Don't think I'll get the chance to see it, but if anyone out there is reading...you should probably check this Ozesque/Wonderlandish exhibition out.

Thoughts and Experiences-Internship

First off...Everything Must Go! Exhibit...helping out with this, only 9 more days to go and I can see this weekend being pretty intense!  Check out the link and see what they've done in the past and what we're up to lately!  Interning with Greylock Arts has been a really great experience thus far and I'm extremely grateful to be working with such amazing people!

But I have to talk about this- I had the chance to travel with my supervisors to NYC and go to an amazing lecture at NYU about art and biology.  One of the best lectures I've ever been to.  Here's a preview of what I saw and can remember...

"Alba" the GFP bunny, infinity burial suit, carnivorous domestic robot, Stelarc, mouse stem cell coat, to name a few, these links are crazy.  The future is nigh and art is capturing it.

What else have I been up to?

That.  Painting the gallery.  That's blue tape ^ not even half of it.

Let the Sparks Fly

One of my good friends, Brielle Rizzotti was a featured artist in MCLA's Senior art show, so I just wanted to post a 'piece' of one of her pieces.  She's also doing the B-HIP internship with me, so I plan on having an exceptionally great time with her!

Since we're on the subject of B-HIP, I found out I will be interning at Greylock Arts! Yay!  I'm extremely excited and a little bit scared.  During my interview with Matt Belanger, he asked me about my experience welding I had on my resume.  Well, I welded through a microscope, if that gives you an idea!  Haha, a little deceiving, I suppose.  So then he goes on to tell me I'll be helping with the installation (plus) and...soldering?  Eeek!

Anyways, Greylock Arts is an organization that welds art and technology.  They encourage the community to engage in these different forms of underrepresented art with programs, talks and exhibits.

Protective glasses on-Lets do this!

Be Hip

So, I was just accepted into an internship (YEE!), B-HIP, or the Berkshire Hills Internship Program, which is probably the  best internship at least in New England for Arts Management Majors.  It is run through my school so I kind of had a foot in the door.  Anyways...I have a telephone interview in 15 mins!  Ahhh!  Luckily my hiccups have subsided.  B-HIP is this crazy, amazing immersion of visual and performance art, where you have a specific internship site (I'm being interviewed for Pittsfield Cultural's, The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts), and have classes once a week-pertaining to Arts Management, professionals in the field present talks, go to events, and think art, art, art, all the live long day for 12 weeks.  Intense!  But nonetheless amazing!  I will be documenting all the great things I do, plus some in between stuff.  I also have two months before it starts, so hopefully I'll have some fun things to write about in the meanwhile.

P.S. I deleted my Facebook, so I guess this is where my new interest on the interwebs is leading me.  HoooRaaa!

Green Qi, acrylic painting by Colleen Surprise Jones
(Painting from Lichtenstein's Exhbit, Fourty Shades of Green, Celebrating Ireland)





http://64.78.12.184/subpage.asp?ID=159
http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Community/bcrc/b-hip/

Life Lately.

A pop-up book for my nefews from the Clark Art Museum

Mass MoCA

The book were in our laps.  The weather teased us that day.

Jelly beans on chocolate? Eh...

A rose is a rose...