MR MFA

a walk around the traffic circle

As part of a project this semester at CSULB, we are doing a 7 part interview with a fellow student and my interviewee is Lance Morris, an MFA student in the Printmaking program. For our final interview, we went on a walk around the Long Beach Traffic Circle, something Lance does regularly to generate imagery for his artwork. We started by exploring the area, without any real rules, taking pictures and recording our conversations along the way: an image of the traffic circle signage which is different for each entrance, the angles specific to the angles of the streets depending on the direction you are going, an unusually quiet moment of watching the traffic circle from a small patch of grass under the shade of some trees, walking up from the roundabout we found a small neighborhood alley that seemed explore worthy in-between a few houses and an oil driller, an alternate view of the traffic circle, the route we took ended up being more than 3 miles and looking something like this, some treasures I found on along the way...

easter

joe, easter style, in his vintage button down shirt, navy cardigan and a minty tie; our first time making deviled eggs; using easter as an excuse to make something new we tried a recipe from one of my favorite food blogs eat this poem (a poem and a recipe each post!) this one inspired by poet Elizabeth Bishop..a tasty crab mac & cheese, some cupcakes with almonds and pastel m&m's (which i will be bringing to csulb tomorrow to share with my studio mates so we don't eat them all by ourselves)

mfa thesis exhibition

joe's mfa thesis exhibition at claremont graduate university. more images at joelloydstudio.com.

as seen on facebook

here are some photos taken by Dan Lloyd from Joe's MFA Thesis Exhibition, Harbor Island, which opened this past Tuesday night. A BIG THANKS to everyone who came out to show support to Joe for all his hard work and if you haven't had a chance to see the show there is just one more day, so be sure to stop by on Friday before 5pm!

show details here

countdown to Joe's MFA thesis show- 23 days left

HARBOR ISLAND, Joe's MFA Thesis Exhibition is coming up March 26th to March 30th with an opening reception Tuesday March 27th from 6-9pm...more details to come

four moments from last week

tiger tiger art art exhibition on view now in Dawn Ertl's WORK gallery in her studio at CSULB by Fibers BFA Heather Anacker..$5 for your very own tiger soap...all monies go to help save tigers from extinction, a detail of Tina's latest collaboration project Beyond the Courtyard with artist Annelie McKenzie, an image from our Fine Arts Roundtable (CSULB art grad student organization that organizes and curates GLAMFA) field trip to orange county...there was some minor car troubles but thanks to some pink duct tape, crisis was averted, Joe's art in the basement of LACMA at the LACMA sales and rental gallery available for rent (as low as $42 a month) or sale..on view until May 3rd