Trip to Maryland This Friday

Hi all,
OK. Here is the plan. I am going to rent a "Budget" truck. To pay for the gas, insurance, adn mileage for a trip to Maryland - it will cost roughly 235 dollars. thats about as cheap as you can get for a truck. I have agreed with Connie to aim to be in Maryland for 11:30/12:00. So, since it is a 3 hour drive to Gaithersburg - we need to leave with all of the art around 8:30/9:00. We need to coordinate a Philly pickup - the less traveling the cheaper and quicker. Alison, Bill and Julia - are you guys able to coordinate and consolidate a location in Philly for about 8:30 am?
We can split the cost of the truck 5 ways which will be fairly cheap. Also, for safety reasons, please wrap up your artwork in blankets, bubble wrap, etc. Most likely a bumpy ride. Connie emailed me directions yesterday - so thats fine. Please let me know asap your plans. I would prefer to have someone drive with me, but if no one is available thats cool, my mom has offered and I believe it would be easy to find someone to take a trip with me. I understand everyone is busy and has finals and etc, so let me know.
Rob

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get their work back from New Attitude?

frames

hey i saw in the paper that frames are on sale at michaels this week. i dunno if you guys have a Michaels store handy, but if you do i have some gift cards you could use for frames there. but i dont know how i'd get them to you...i think its wall frames, so big ones (?) on sale.

the truck

i'm happy to chip in a bit for the truck...and then maybe you guys can stop by the Martins house (where i live) to pick up my pieces on the way to the church/school.

thanks for taking this initiative, rob.
connie

later better 4

Ok. here is the deal. My neighbor is a framer and she is going to frame my two pieces for next Friday. I currently dont work on fridays so Im hoping to get a Penske - pick up my stuff and everyone else's and then we can drive em down to Maryland. Im not sure how much it costs to rent the truck, but will get ya the details. Is it possible for everyone to consolidate their art at one location? Or due to size stay in separate places and we can pick em up. Is anyone up to going to Maryland to transport them. ehem Bill!!! JK also, Connie, I would need directions specifically where to go and is next Friday ok for you?
Rob

later better

rob, i think your idea makes the most sense- for all of us to get our stuff to you next weekend at one time. it would give everyone one more week. where do you live though?

later better

hey all,
I'm thinking about getting a truck to drive down the artwork for hopefully next weekend to Connie. The drive isn't too far, so I believe it will be practical. If that happens, I say we all try to consolidate our work together and make it in one sweep. That is of course, if ya'll can't get it done by Saturday.
Let me know any thougths and ideas you may have. Rob

later better

Hey, y'all, later is better for me since my painting for the show is in lancaster. Julia will probably be able to have her stuff framed by the concert on saturday, or maybe by first friday tomorrow so that would be something.
bill

later better?

hey, I would definitely stand behind the idea to get a truck and take the stuff to MD not this weekend. From my standpoint:

A.Framing has yet to happen
B.Honestly I'm still working on the sculpture, and it may or may not make it. I'm trying but my sanity is slipping. I do it to myself. Connie we'll have to talk when you're here this weekend.

So that's my 2 cents. I don't know any plexi framing places offhand but I will ask around.

Philly artists

Hey guys,
Apparently this Saturday is D-day. Has everybody figured out how they are going to get their work to Connie? The Bolivia Benefit concert is at church this saturday. So I have to be there for work and everything. I am going to try to figure out a way to my work to Connie. Does anybody know where I can get two of my pieces framed with plexiglass? Is it expensive? Let me know what you guys are doing, and perhaps on this short notice, we can arrange something.
Rob

a taste of the artshow

Meet the 5 Na artists with a small sampling of the art that will be shown at the Na art show. There will be a total of 13 pieces including 12 2-D works and one sculpture by alison (whose pic file size is too big for me to post here).




with a few silly faces thrown in for good measure.

decisions!

are being emailed to you tonight!

thanks for your patience!

Sorry for the delay

I'll let you know the final word as soon as I hear it. The pastors are out of town and i'm headed to austin for the weekend so i'm thinking it will be early next week that we'll hear.

Hope this doesn't inconvienience anybody.

connie

status of conversation series?

does anybody know the status of the phily series? or if theres anything showable in it?

transporting artwork

once the show is curated (Tuesday the 18th) we'll know which pieces need to be transported.

so to our philly artists, we'll come to that question then, but a couple things to keep in mind. consider if you have access to a truck (family? friend?) or somebody that already makes a regular trip from philly to MD. i'll be coming up to philly on May 5-6 so i'll try to borrow a van or something from here so i can coordinate a pick up with you.

once the artwork is safely in Maryland, we have reserved place for it on a truck thats going to Louisville.

Conniej

oh! and dimensions!!

please add on to the attachement you send me:

4. dimensions of your artwork, length by height & width of canvas too, or how its framed.

I'll email this to everybody in case folks arent checking the blog. so sorry in advance if you read it twice.

enjoy the crunch time before the deadline!

-connie

weeping cherry blossoms

standing under a weeping cherry blossom tree just now taking in all the color, i was reminded of a quote Bill gave me once from Chromophobia by David Batchelor :

"to fall into color is to fall out of words."

there is a certain part of 65th avenue near my house where yellow flowers, green buds, and the brightest pink blossoms fall in a row. it is sensory overload: especially with all the sun.

i couldn't take my eyes off of the tree -- the pink blossoms swaying in the wind, the sharp contrast of deep brown bark against pink, the height of the thing. i thought of how we will see Jesus in heaven : we won't be able to take our eyes off of Him. (& this is how we are called to live now too). there will be so many facets to see : His eyes, His wounds, His smile . . . so,

"to fall into Jesus is to fall out of words."

Info re: deadline

Hey guys, here's the scoop. For a piece of artwork to be considered for the Na art show, please email the following to Connie by Easter:

1. Digital pic of the artwork as a whole. If you'd like to send additional details or multiple views, thats cool too.
2. Digital pic of yourself next to the artwork so we can see scale. (and those silly faces)
3. A 100 word or less explanation of your artwork. We want these to be displayed next to your piece. So tell us about regeneration and whatever you think in helpful for the viewer: your process? symbolism? how your concept developed? help non-art folks to look closer at your art.

let me know if you have more Q's.
-conniej

transporting artwork

Hey Connie,
when and where and how are we gonna all get our artwork down to New attitude?
I was thinking that I need to get a penske truck to transport my stuff to our church and then from there? We need these done by Easter Sunday, April 16th?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Rob

i who have died am alive again today,

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~e.e. cummings

this is the poem i'm using in a poster for the show. bill explicated it for us to think about it in terms of Jesus being the first person, speaking "i who have died am alive again today" -- i think this is so beautiful, and it completely shifts my view of this poem. this could be a portrait of the Son speaking to the Father of "this most amazing day", His death on the Cross as atonement for our sins. (!)

at covenant, the series called 'the gospel song' is radically shifting my view of Jesus & the gospel. i am so grateful for the pastors who were led to preach these messages!!