Tearing into the Studio

This afternoon promptly at 1:45PM we started to tear down our art show that ran all weekend. We had to take all the screws out of our threshold and then start to paint all the walls back to white. It was so much fun being able to be destructive. I was assigned to the wonderful painting back process, and it is taking 3 or more coats to get the walls back to white again. Its been a full day!

Carting Lumber all Around the City

For our exhibit that is opening next Thursday I am on the threshold team, and we are constructing an open framework for people to hang their work on.  It also functions to split up the gallery space.  We ran out of lumber last night, and this morning we put up all the wood frames we had made, and found out we needed 49 more 2X4's to finish our project.  We then went to Home Depot to get the lumber, and borrowed a cart and took it 6 blocks back to our studio space.  We learned that we could not use the freight elevator to get it to our studio because of the upcoming holiday and that no one was in our building who could run it.  So here we were stuck in the middle of Manhattan with a cart full of lumber and no place to store it!  One of our staff members asked our summer housing director of the townhouse where we are living if we could store it in the basement.  He was our life saver, and let us store it there.  We then had to take the cart 8 more blocks to our house and the whole excursion took about 3.5 hours.  So now we can construct the rest of the structures in our small backyard, and won't be able to get them up until Monday morning.  The show will still come off, but we will be pulling some late nights next week now.

West Side Story

So I made it to my first Broadway show today, and it was so awesome.  I went with all of the staff and students on our project here in the city.  We of course were in the balcony in the nose bleed section.  It was still amazing, and the set changes were done so well!  The dancing was coriographed with stunning jumps and stunts.  I knew the premise of the story so I wasn't surprised by the progression of events, but the girls I was sitting by were so shocked by the ending.  

On Campus at City College

Today we went to do surveys at City College that directly influences our show that we are putting together.  Our questions were:  1) If this space (where the people were) was your inspiration for a piece of work, what would your create?  2) If this space was an alternate fantastic dreamworld how would it look?  and lastly 3) How is your answer to #2 how is it the same or different of your idea of Heaven?  We got some interesting responses, and one of the girls I talked to thought the campus would look like Hogwarts from Harry Potter in a fantastic dreamland.

Playing Frogger in Central Park

Today we were trying to get Shakespeare in the Park tickets, but as we got off the subway we ran into an in progress marathon. In order to cross the street there were two options: 1) run with the entries and merge to the other side of the street, or 2) Run straight through the runners frogger style. I chose option two, and with much speed and agility made it through without tripping up the participants. Sad to say the line for tickets was too long, so we had to find alternative fun for today, but while we were walking through the city we found a cool flea market tent bazar. It had some very interesting stands with bags, scarves, jewelry, food, etc. . . It was a great surprise!

These aren't the REAL Yankees

Tonight after a long afternoon in the studio when we broke into working groups, and started to build our show we headed to an all you can eat free minor league baseball game. We took the Staten Island Ferry to the venue, and the whole ride we were able to watch a thunderstorm blow through the bay area.

Verse of the Day

Romans 15:4, "Everything that was written beforehand was written for our instruction, that by the steadfastness and encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.