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Spring Break Twenty-Ten

Lets talk about it! Sarah Davis and I went together to the SNAG conference in Houston TX last week and it was super fun.

Got to see some good lectures but mostly not amazing lectures except for the ones i am denying happened because i missed them and heard that they were amazing.

At first blush the hotel was super fancy, and then the longer we were there we discovered how jank it really is. Good think we got a conference rate because i would be phoning that front desk every 10min if i had to pay $300 a night.

Houston has a bunch of crazy tunnels under it with shopping and food court type things, it was really weird because from what i understand they have nice weather there a lot of the year so i don't know why you would need the subterranean retail.

The whitewater kids found a shoe store that was actually a front for drug selling, at least thats what they say. There was a crazy long line out of it in the later hours of the evening so unless there is something i don't understand about sneakers, they are probably right.

So the big thing that happened was that our JetBlue flight got cancelled 11:30 friday night. We were supposed to fly out of Houston at 3:00pm on saturday so there was quite a bit of time in between when the flight got cancelled and when we were supposed to actually be at the airport. It was weather related but when we got back to new york they said it wasn't super crazy hear like we thought, it was really windy though.

So Sarah and I drove in a rental car 23 hours and 20 minutes to Washington DC in order to only have the rental car for 24 hours, and then her brother drove us half-way to new paltz and Her boyfriend got us the rest of the way, good kids all around. Super nice of them.

Then I took a quick trip to the old Wisco. Things didn't go exactly as planned so i didn't clean as thoroughly as i would have liked but i did get to see Sliv and the Kitties.

Now that i'm back i need to put the pedal to the metal and make some things, critique isn't this week but when there is no class at all you gotta jump on the opportunity!

Close Spring Break doors!

K. Redford

NYC all up ons

I went into "The City" on saturday to see the Armory Show at pier 92 and 94. Its like a SOFA only its mostly paintings and has some sculpture but nothing in a craft-based media. Other people have told me that they saw a lot of fiber stuff, I will believe them because every person who has told me about a thing they liked has talked about something I don't remember AT ALL.

The small bit of new york city i was in seemed a lot like Chicago to me, its just another city from what i observed, only way big. I went on the subway which was fun, luckily I had other people to follow because i would have gotten hella lost as i was ill prepared and had not a single map or set of directions handy, i hadn't even thought about it.

There are some glass cases in one of the administrative buildings for artwork, and metals was supposed to have crap in there a while ago i guess, so on friday we were going to go set it up but it still had design stuff in there, so we will have to do it tomorrow which stinks because we will have to come up with some kind of display, which is difficult i guess because Myra is particular.

Chester rabbit got a new cage today, i think he rather likes it he was making a big mess right away which is his favorite thing.

I will be going to Houston TX on wednesday for S to the N to the A to the G! Hang out with all those Whitewater kids and see my favorite Teresa.

Then its spring break and i will have a super fast trip back to the old Wisco. and get some paperwork and some cleaning done and car things and then run back to new paltz and finish a piece or something because that GD mid-term crit is upon us!

never give up, never surrender!

K. Redford