The spring and summer of 2014 were blurs in time for me and my family. The good news is that blur is now a receding memory and we are all pointing towards the sunshine and the future.
So I thought I would ease into my fall teaching after having taken most of the spring and summer off. But I had forgotten all that I had agreed to do so it was with some delight that I realized that my fall is completely crazy with studio classes, community classes, traveling classes, 2 exhibitions, and private teaching. Check out the published schedule 2014 Fall – how stunning is that!
Now where Silverpoint, Watercolor and Calligraphy collide, we have a great project! Check out these pictures of a joint project Sandy Muzzy and I worked on for an exhibition at the Univeristy of St Thomas on peace and reconciliation.
Anne doing a Silverpoint sketch of Nelson Mandela
Anne Kaese working on the Silverpoint calligraphy for the thoughts of Nelson Mandela about building peace
This is the book with the 3 timelines. Sandy did the watercolor and I did the calligraphy. Here she is using a bullet for some of the silverpoint – if you draw about war, use the weapons…..
Sandy carefully adding layers of metal to my sketch using a bullet . The more layers, the darker the image.
Sandy and I had great conversations about our childhoods growing up in South African, how we grew up innocently in the apardheid era and how the war on terror in South Africa has made both of us pacifists in adult life. Once you live the war, you never want anyone else to.
PROPOSAL FOR EXHIBIT web– this will help to make sense of it all. Read that proposal for all the details in what we proposed to do.
We worked on two books together and Sandy has a third.
But now I need to get back to working on supply lists, orders and some more detailed syllabi notes. It is a good day in the Scriptorium! Enjoy these last days of the season……..