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as i sit here typing on my wireless keyboard with my wireless track-pad and my laptop a good distance away hooked to my tv as i sit all comfy on my futon, click clicking away! this is residual techno nerd...

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again

16 Feb 2011

kathy wash 2012

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streaking in the WASH building
my students have gone mad in the best of ways.

15 Feb 2011

art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

WASHers (Hannah, Ollie, Alexandra, Dante, [a little extra help from table 1, Wendy], Katie, and David) become human dots comps translating a really traditional foundations project in which they learn to use 2D space using Gestalt perception principles. For me...

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Making students go on a play date with their art materials

15 Feb 2011

art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

So we do this modular madness project in which students choose 100 to 1000 cheap found objects to create a three dimensional work that responds to the formal and conceptual elements of the materials. Step one was to go home...

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off to install at Clear Lake Arts Alliance0

i almost got adopted today

i would have been ok with that i think. she wooed me immediately and i was smitten. but she meandered home (think she lives across the street). dogs in this neighborhood are unnerving compared to the burbs. they roam free...

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Larry Lessig | Video on TED.com

11 Feb 2011

art foundations, mundane ramblings, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity | Video on TED.com not sure i agree with title; but piece is interesting.0

american cardboard idol

08 Feb 2011

art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

a few of the top contenders (photos shot by lee and krystal) Katy (source object: drink umbrella) Tony tests the functionality of the cardboard umbrella Zach (source object: magnolia seed) Danielle (source object: magnolia seed) Kevin (source object:...

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don’t try this sarah! really.
i don’t look at camera or i would crash.

08 Feb 2011

mundane ramblings, road trip

kathy wash 2012

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sunset camera phone anomaly

06 Feb 2011

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a little freezer burn

06 Feb 2011

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but the arugula is a tuff little bugger with not even a tinged leaf edge.0

repetition and rhythm

06 Feb 2011

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kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

my students’ are starting to post up (on their blogs) on a little home photo project these are by Krystal0

way flatter than I ever want to be!

05 Feb 2011

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Yipee!

04 Feb 2011

art foundations, mundane ramblings, SHSU Art, WASH foundations

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

only in the south do they cancel school for one inch of snow. well it is that icy, crunchy, kind of snow and we would so totally crash as we tailgated and texted our way to school on that slick...

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tickle tickle clang clang

I get this daily email from a Christian organization that is suppose to help me through this transition. Much of it is very helpful and timely. I am grateful for the service and have found it immensely helpful. But parts...

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OMGosh BAM

01 Feb 2011

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kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Before I even open the WASH studio door this morning, I can see Nic’s ring made from cardboard because it will barely fit out of a supersized garage door. It still needs work, but, dang it all, good for Nic...

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