Morocco!

I'm going to Morocco May 12-June 24 for a study abroad program through Montana State Universities Architecture program. The full itinerary is at www.atlasculturalfoundation.org under What We Do/Study Abroad. I am also helping Cloe (the founder of ACF) in some foundational Non=profit work as an internship that applies towards my Non-Profit Management Certificate.

I have explored the images posted on Google Earth and really look forward to the experience to come in Morocco!

Winter Studio 2011

Here's some photos from my winter 2011 studio project: Light in Place.

Located in the main lobby to the Architecture building I used strips of paper to create the spider web and then trace paper cut to size of each window frame to create a "screen" that information was projected onto, color, light, and shadow.

It was a fun exercise in small installation art and seemed like a sculpture studio. The show was at night so I had a large theater light shining from an upstairs window and illuminating the ground plane directly outside the window. Strong reflections appeared in the pools of water that collected as the rain fell onto tarps (initially place for color but then served a double duty!).

Food

Studio Project
Make something with food and install it in Lawrence.

and since we went to the beach and found an amazing piece of seaweed (that's food too!) I installed it in the stairwell :)

Paper animal

Studio Assignment:

Build a paper animal and place it somewhere in Lawrence Hall (our Architecture building). There is a grand staircase that ends on the second floor then everyone takes an enclosed firestair to their studio on the 3rd and 4th floor. So I installed a watcher to stare you down as you enter.

Jell-O

Build something with Jell-O. . . . I think it's alive

How to use a vessel over time

Media A1

Winter 2011 Design Development Media course. We chose a vessel to bring through each assignment and I chose a hand made mug from Noel. Above are the hand drawings, below 6 sections done in AutoCad and overlaid to form the vessel using line weight.

Light In Place

Winter 2011 studio. Visiting professor who knows her light! The studio component is picking a place in a new hospital in New Jersey and designing something with light for that space. I choose the patient exam room as a place that there is inherently lots of waiting, nervousness, anxiety, and scared feelings. I purposely chose a room with no windows so my installation could take on the roll of intrigue, calmness, and soothing.



For the video see: and turn your head to the left :)

Fall studio final

This was my final submission to the Lyceum Competition, we had to make a 11" x 17" book and I bound my with string and a Mylar cover with the word MIRAGE transferred on (photo to come).
The project was a net zero rest stop along I 80 West of Salt Lake City on the Great Salt Desert salt flats. A very interesting site condition. I would say the studio focused on graphic design and how to get my ideas across graphically since I won't be there to describe it.

second part moon data

For this part we used the same data as P2, but had to laser cut or 3D model the form and insert a letter. My letter was "U". The final product is 2.5" x 2.5"