Announcing Ink Vein

"If we do not teach our children, and ourselves, that what we imagine, and how we design the world, can make a difference, the culture of cynicism will do that for us. If we do not take the initiative to love our neighbors by imagining better neighborhoods and cities, despair will take the imaginations of their children and turn them

into destructive forces."

Makoto Fujimura

Ink Vein

Trinity's Literary Journal

After weeks of preparation, Ink Vein- Trinity's Literary Journal, is available. This beautiful edition of student work is available through Blurb.com by clicking on the link at the top of the post (where you can see a preview as well).

The art room is a busy place these days, with students working in encaustic, serigraphy, pinhole photography, cyanotype prints, watercolor, graphite, digital photography, Photoshop, oil, acrylic, plastic, metal, wood... not a place for the faint of heart. My approach is a hybrid of classical atelier and Montessori methodology and now, after three quarters of a variety of media and art history lectures, students have the opportunity to explore materials that speak to them. The results are exciting. Megan Bennett and Aden Huffman have worked on our visual timeline, adding cave painting and the Egyptian age. Davis Martinec revived interest in the Cyanotype process, discovering a 'better paper' (thank you Davis!), Chris Shreve is working through a print concept, incorporating unsolved proofs in math (click here for the list), Greg Scott and Dillon Harward are taking photographs for a Blurb book, Spencer Phillips is painting in oil on canvas, Maddie Keller is painting an original watercolor of multi-colored Coca-Cola bottles (classic shape) while Alli Meyer is (ambitiously) producing a serigraphy (silkscreen) edition of Four Cans- a poster print of four different soft drink cans with each can in five to six colors (that is alot of 'pulls'). As I survey the room, Proverbs 14:4 comes to mind- "An empty stable stays clean, but no income comes from an empty stable." 

Timeline Additions

Megan Bennett and Aden Huffman

Cyanotype

Jacob Byrom

Cyanotype

Emma Carter

Backwards Logic

Cyanotype

Christopher Shreve

Digital Photograph

Dillon Harward

Icons

Serigraph

Kaela Frappier

Encaustic and Oil

Tori Barbee

Who Am I?

Mixed Media

Lee Blackwelder

Graphite

Austin Carpenter

For parents seeking creative venues for their children this Summer, I highly recommend Masterpiece Project.

My wife and I were blessed several years ago when we participated in a Timothy Botts calligraphy workshop. Mr. Botts is the Artistic Director for Masterpiece Ministries.