Tondo for Telfair Tree

This year's Telfair tree is being imagined and curated by the wonderful Libbie Summers. She has invited myself and many many talented Savannah artists to decorate/embellish/paint/sculpt on and around a small tree cookie "tondos." These tondo ornaments will be auctioned off at the Jepson Jingle event on Tuesday, December 2, from 5-7pm. All proceeds will benefit the Telfair Museum's children's education and outreach programs.

Here's the evolution of my tondo:

*last two photos styled and shot by katherine sandoz*

The Currents run faaaaar-ish

This past week I was fortunate enough to be a part of Currents, a Westobou Festival art exhibition curated by Susan Laney of Laney Contemporary. Laney brought me on to help assist, sort, and to be the one who remembered that thing that was said and had to be done at what point? Oh yeah!

I was also there to help the lovely katherine sandoz (pictured below) install her crape myrtle works that she'd been working on for the past 14 months.

Laney selected seven Savannah Artist to exhibit work, including; Marcus Kenney, katherine sandoz, Tobia Makover, Melinda Borysevicz, Michael Porten, Will Penney, and Elizabeth Winnel. 

The show demonstrated a very thoughtful cross section of contemporary works by extremely talented Savannians.

The Augusta Chronicle writes about the opening day of the Westobou Frestival.
*photo by Michael Holahan*

mural with sandoz

In the studio painting a Lacoste, France inspired mural with katherine sandoz. 

SCADpad

In March, I assisted katherine sandoz in the creation of the bathroom for the North American pad, as part of the Savannah College of Art and Design's SCADpad. 

*photo by John Amis/AP Images for Savannah College of Art and Design*

*photo by Travis Grant*

*photo by Keith Morgan*

*photo by Keith Morgan*

Process photos of fabric being color matched and dyed:

A-Town Get Down: Kehoe Remix

I have been fortunate enough to have a hand in creating this large scale, up-cycled, collaborative fibers wall that hung on the fence during the 2014 A-Town Get Down at the Morris Center in Savannah, GA. The work was conceived and led by artist katherine sandoz, and completed by a team of multi-talented creatives, including: 

katherine sandoz, Anita Akella, Emily Chao, Cecily Charles, Alyssa Drennen, Marcella Frankil, Jesse Jordan, Bartira Lobo, Vincent Mccraw, Hale Rardin, Benazir Torres, Autumn Van Gunten, and myself.

What this looks like broken down (courtesy of the sandoz):

size: 3′ x 60′

2,688 square feet of up-cycled vinyl donated by SpeediSign 

4′ x 100′ construction mesh donated by J.T. Turner

6 t-shirts donated by A-Town Get Down

1 ArtPort Shuffle used canvas 9′ x 12′

1 random piece of canvas 2′ x 3′

1 1970′s bed sheet

9:30 – 5:00 (lunch .5 hours) = 7 hours

10 full-time workers = 70+ hours or 2 wks work 1 person

1 color sorting wonder (Oliver, age 7) 1.5 hours

12 pairs scissors

5 pairs needle nose pliers

10 staplers

a lot of staples, zip ties

*Photo by Earl Bryan*