hello, oft-neglected website/blogthing. my life has been consumed with non-profiting, more non-profiting, catching up with old friends, barely putting my apartment and studio together to move upstairs at the end of the month, some more non-profiting, and a whole lot of Me Time.
hey look, here is a list of all the yummy things I have made or am making in the near future, with many thanks to the awesomeness of H-Mart (recipes don’t exist in my life but I’ll try to wing something written for anyone interested):
-hearty beef & veggie stew (with homemade stock that I had in the freezer!! mmm)
-empanadas
-braised short ribs with ginger glaze, steamed carrots, kale, and jasmine rice
-roasted chicken (this is my usual, as snowmageddon descends)
-from that chicken, fresh-made stock
-with that stock, pea risotto
-roasted brussel sprouts (another specialty, I like to think)
annndddddd
I am super excited to experiment with these thai eggplants I just got. they are usually pretty hard to find or are only in season for really short time, so I jumped on them as soon as I saw them. I also got some of the flavor notes to play around with something curry-ish–lemongrass, tamarind, fish sauce, coconut milk, and the spices I always have around–we’ll see how it goes!
It’s no news that word travels fast here in Smalltimore… After pushing our press release yesterday, we’ve already had some responses and recaps. I’m so thankful to be a part of not only this collective, but also this greater community that understands and supports our mission and goals. <3 u, Baltimore.
link to the CityPaper and more to come.
so this is like, really huge, and if I haven’t seen you in a long time, it’s because I’ve been buried under Board of Directors activities and getting things to sound Just Right and we’ve finally sent out press releases so it’s like Official and Stuff and I’m pretty excited and this has been consuming us for the last few months and hey, this is one sentence because I say it is.
I’ve been sort of mentally hibernating after a particularly crappy week last week and need to gather some thoughts before putting up some new blog posts.
In the meantime, hop over to my Tumblr for some visual laffs. Yes, it’s lime green. Yes, it was intentional. No, I don’t care to change it any time soon.
Was way too swamped last week/weekend to link these, but the show that Alex and I curated has been getting some press!
A writeup in the Sun by Tim Swift. I have some mixed feelings about the article, but I think they mostly stem from how hyper-sensitive one can become when it’s a project they’ve been working on for months and months and months, and perhaps an objective opinion is different from how they see it. In any case, I’m really glad that some of the artists were able to share their experience, and I hope it brought some people outside of our usual audience to the show. We’ve already sold two pieces!
Artblog of all artblogs, the artblog I read religiously while in grad school, home to some of my favoritist art writers and thinkers, did a bit about the show too! So thrilled we got a mention from this blog I so admire.
A few pictures are up on Radar Redux’s flickr. Thanks for visiting, guys!
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Must say, after all the stress and coordinating and calming down the other artists who were stressed, Alex and I are pretty pleased with how things came together. Some artists had really successful experiences and will continue their correspondence; other artists weren’t as enthusiastic, but I think they were nonetheless able to learn more about their studio practice. What I loved was hearing so many participants say that they learned to work in a way they never had before, and that they started asking themselves all sorts of new questions. Awesome!
The joint opening in Philly was a success, we raged pretty late into the evening, and I got some much needed catch up time with my old Philly crew. (I’d say we had a little too much fun; I’m still hibernating a bit in recovery!) I’m also really excited that we’ll be hosting the Philly kids down here for the closing. It sounds like there will be quite a few of them caravaning together, and I expect it to be an all around super crazy fun time happy. Freda and Andrew will be doing a more involved version of their AMAZING performance piece (not sure what the permissions are on that facebook vid… sorry!), and I think we’ll have a combination of Bmore and Philly bands that night. Followed by whatever cavorting/celebrating/on the town we’ll be doing after the closing. So good!
As mentioned in my previous 2 spazz posts, I can’t get over how awesome 2010 has been already, even barring the total mountain of SUCK that 2009 was. I’m pumped!
“You’re out on the cutting edge once again, making people wonder how they can keep going on with the same-old same-old. It’s not that you want them to feel bad, but their lives could be so much better!”
barely a week in and I am having the best year ever!!!!
Career things looking GOOD
ARTWORK ON DA MOVE
Getting good press!!!
I love my friends and my family!
A rather attractive mustache
I’ve got a plan, got some things in my calendar that could potentially lead to some other cool things, I feel like all of my really super duper way hard work is making a concrete, happenin’ impact.
Community! I’m part of one, I love everyone!
Making work! Color correcting slides! Rewriting and updating CVs!
exclamation points!
(admittedly, schadenfreude)
AWESOME upcoming plans with my bff Mike (count chocula, meditation workshops, AS220, metaling our faces off)
LIFE
IS
SO
GOOD
This tiny-hearted cynic is actually a sucker for sentimental holiday stuff, and in my own corny quest of finding myself and shit during 2009, I’ve decided that I am starting a New Year’s Tradition for myself that has nothing to do with regret, mistakes, image, or arbitrary improvements.
I’m going to bake a loaf of bread every New Year’s Day. The first loaf of this decade came out pretty well, if I must say so myself. Prepped the dough New Year’s Eve morning and gave it a second rise while I recovered from my hangover this today. Here’s to crumb and crust! Happy New Year!
It’s official! The Baltimore Community Foundation has announced their Confetti Grant recipients, and the Hexagon is among this group of Awesome! I can’t even begin to express how ecstatic I am about this, how I tiptoed into the space a little over a year ago just to meet some creative people in a new town and am a part of a big quirky family striving to bring the best in emerging art and music to Baltimore. We are so darn pumped. AND totally flattered to receive these grants along with our local friends and colleagues who share our DIY vision. Like seriously, when I look over that list of recipients, I am so proud that we were all considered together.
Go Baltimore!
Go Hexagon!
Go DIY!
Go Collectivism!!
Happy New Year!!!!