a quiet thanksgiving

with our families spread out across the country and no money for travel, we opted for a quiet thanksgiving together this year. if the point was to be overstuffed, we certainly succeeded, even without the traditional turkey: appetizers, us eating our appetizers all gone, a bacon wrapped fig, half eaten, is really quite beautiful (unfortunately our recipe was not as amazing as our inspiration from Julia's thanksgiving last year), thanksgiving dinner: butternut squash soup, roasted cauliflower and polenta vegetable bake. overall, a quiet relaxing day full of napping, reading and netflix. 

day in claremont

we went to claremont together on tuesday because tina's usual tuesday classes were cancelled this week. the first two images are of joe's paintings in the administration offices of CGU (a year long show curated by David Pagel of CGU students and staff), then joe in his studio, and finally an image lifted from the restaurant website where we had lunch, a place called the back abbey where they serve burgers and beer from around the world. 

3rd anniversary

3 years. 3 pictures. 3 places. 

lately

a few highlights of our life lately: Joe is leading a graduate discussion group at Claremont, by far the most popular of available groups, on the death of painting...heres the sign up sheet as evidence of his popularity, an image from tina's collaborative art exhibition called 'pataphor (you can see a video of the show on her blog here), a quick shot of Tina's work from the advancement show earlier in October, Joe's studio, we had the opportunity to see Lisa and Osha briefly, a few weeks back, when they were visiting Long Beach. This is Osha, a bit bored, in Tina's studio. 

pasadena, echo park & silverlake day trip

a few of us from the fiber department decided to venture to pasadena to visit our friend emilyn to see her studio, an industrial rope supplier (yes, i have become a bit of a fiber nerd), the norton simon museum and whatever else crossed our path this past friday. we started out at frank r ferris co and he generously let us look around for what must have been an hour: me in my heels in the attic surrounded by boxes of rope of all varieties, some twine with a vintage tag, a view of of one of many rooms of rope, some incredible ironing boards that i was given (for free!!) leftover from a repair business that the owners father ran in the same space in the 1960's, next we headed to emilyn's studio were she is working on her mfa application to fibers for next fall..this is a quick shot of one wall of her studio, finally we did a drive through of echo park and silverlake, stopping for an amazing lunch at Forage (ate too fast to get pictures) then window shopping at the silverlake shops, ending up having tea and snacks at the Casbah Cafe (be aware the outdoor tables are at an extreme angle so you might want to bring your own something something to prop them up evenly enough to eat on) before heading to the Norton Simon Museum for their Pacific Standard Time show of LA printmaking. 

good times, good food, another fun neighborhood i never knew existed. Thanks Emilyn and Krista!

hard at work

its been a long while since we have posted any images of our studios or artwork. i guess you can tell that we've been busy when we haven't been regularly updating our blog. so. we are going to do better. heres a taste of how the fall 2011 semester is starting to take shape: joes been painting abstractly as of late..heres some works in progress. tina moved into a larger studio space over the summer and by now is right at home making work, heres a glimpse of what that looks like (if you want more specifics on tina's work you can visit her own art blog at www.tinalinville.blogspot.com)

curried chicken with ginger and yogurt

dear crock-pot, 

thank you for cooking our dinner while we were busy at school. what an incredible meal to come home to this week! you're the best.

love, 

joe + tina