Join me at this year’s American Craft Show in downtown Baltimore. Hosted by the American Craft Council, Let’s Make, is an interactive area of the American Craft Show where individuals can try their hand at something new. I will be on site demoing stone carving and gold leafing. Come say hi and make some dust with me!
Friday, Feb. 22: 10:00am – 8:00pm
Saturday, Feb. 23: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, Feb. 24: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Great feature in Hi-Fructose by Andy Smith.
Follow this link or click the image to see the write up.
It’s my great surprise and honor to be sharing ink in Sunday The Baltimore Sun News Paper this morning with, not only #Rinehart & Oprah Winfrey, but fellow Baltimore-boy, Mike Rowe !!! #rad
You can check out the article, Carving Out a Legacy, about the Walters Art Museum show online too by following this link to The Baltimore Sun’s page.
Baby Steps, marble
Obviously, as a kind of extension of the Soft Step Series, I wanted to make a sort of mini-stoop that would be more appropriate for my (then) one year old son.
He loves to stoop with us, but his feet dangle uncomfortably off the full size stair steps.
To be fair, at almost two years old now, he has probably already outgrown the scale of this piece . . .
I thought is doing this when I saw how taken he with a child-size recliner at a house we stayed at on vacation. Why not make a child-size stoop?
Ultimately, we got him his own child-size recliner, chocolate faux-leather. The treads and cheek walls of this piece are made from salvaged pieces of stone from our neighborhood, and the seams and polished finished are based on his little chair.
Baby Steps, marble
Baby Steps, marble
Barclay Chess Tables, reclaimed marble
This public art piece is part of the redevelopment project in the Barclay neighborhood. I was contacted by the sculpture department at MICA who was asked by the developer, Telesis Corp, to assist with reincorporating the salvaged marble stoops from the neighborhood back into the project in an artistic way.
Primary in my thought process was allowing this new neighborhood to have a physical and psychological connection to its historic past. These stair treads are once again acting as a location for communal gathering for people of all ages and backgrounds.
The placement of the stone was planned as to allow, for the tallest likely person, while still being usable for the shortest, keeping children in mind. The material and the fact that the checkered game surface is etched directly into the face of the stone means that they are permanent.
Though the timeline did not allow for the most complex of sculptural concepts or structures here, sometimes simple is beautiful. I am very excited to have been able to incorporate this piece of Baltimore’s past into a project for its future.
I have larger and more intricate ideas for art to be included in the next phase of this development, which will include another larger adjacent park. However, I am very pleased that this piece has been positively received by the community so far. I hope that it will continue to be the kind of art piece that serves the aesthetic, cultural and functional needs of the community, becoming a destination that the neighborhood can be proud of.
They are located on Worsley St, between, Barclay St and Greenmount Ave.
Barclay Chess Tables, reclaimed marble
Barclay Chess Tables, reclaimed marble
Barclay Chess Tables, reclaimed marble