August 3, 2010
I have been waiting all year to bring y’all a photo of this beautiful velvet painting that hangs on the wall of El Rey Azteca restaurant in Lyndora, PA.
I’m pretty sure there’s an interesting story in this painting, as it’s obviously a real mountain range with some sort of legend attached to it. Something to be investigated later, though. Right now, we’re on vacation!
Posted by jodi on August 3, 2010 at 6.24am
more sweater factory
July 4, 2010
Sweater cut-out letter sign: craftily cute or painfully hipsterish? I still can’t decide.
The full length of knitting, just before I started chopping it up.
First cutouts.
Posted by jodi on July 4, 2010 at 8.01pm
the sweater factory, day 8
June 21, 2010
Posted by jodi on June 21, 2010 at 1.47pm
the sweater factory, day 4
June 18, 2010
Posted by jodi on June 18, 2010 at 12.00pm
the sweater factory
June 17, 2010
11am to 5pm daily, June 14 to 25, 2010
406 Pelissier Street, Windsor, Ontario
as part of Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation, an initiative of Windsor-based arts research collective Broken City Lab.
The Sweater Factory is a trial run for a project I’ve been talking about doing for a while. Old sweaters are unraveled and knit on a machine into a long panel from which pattern pieces will be cut; these pieces will be sewn together on the serger to create new sweaters, which will be given away to visitors at the end of the project.
The first two days were taken up with setting up and getting to know the new knitting machine, which I hadn’t managed to get out of the case and try out before beginning the project (whoops). Now that we’re friends, new fabric is pouring off the thing at a pretty good clip, although the varying weights of the sweaters being recycled makes necessary constant little adjustments to tension. I hope to stop knitting and start sewing by the end of the weekend. Due to the short time frame and the summer heat, I’ll be making sweater vests instead of full sweaters (so far most of the visitors to the project who’ve been really excited about the prospect of a free sweater vest have been artists and various other types of nerd anyway, so striped sweater vests could become our NERD UNIFORM). The last few days will be devoted to hand finishing (ribbing!) and giving vests away.
Posted by jodi on June 17, 2010 at 9.29pm
drawing
May 4, 2010
Paper, some printed, some already drawn on and some new, stretched on boards for new drawings. I’m hoping to have some time to work on a few of them tomorrow afternoon.
A drawing that represents four and a half hours of city council meeting. The meeting was even longer, but we left after the vote we were there for was over (at 10:30pm!). Next time I have to go to city council I'm bringing supper with me. Posted by jodi on May 4, 2010 at 9.11pm January 12, 2010 My students are not used to being expected to fill a whole sketchbook for every drawing course they take, and most of them carry around a big black hardbound book that they use for all of their studio courses. It makes me sad to see how little they’ve drawn in books that in some cases they’ve been using for a year and a half now, and how many of those precious pages are instead filled with notes from art history class. I told my life drawing students that I expect them to draw every day, in order to develop good working habits if nothing else. I also told them that I would bring my own book to class so that they could check up on me and know that I’m keeping the same commitment I’m demanding from them. These are the books I brought with me to draw in while I’m here. The one on the left should look familiar: it’s another of my 20-spread drum leaf books made entirely of old prints. I used to draw in these every day, but got out of the habit when I got busy with my thesis work and never picked it up again (see, kids? If you don’t draw every day then you wind up having NO WORK ETHIC AT ALL). In the centre is a longstitch binding by Stacie Dolin, another gift she brought me when she visited Windsor last fall. I’m especially looking forward to drawing in this one, as it will feel good to go back to blank pages after drawing on top of layers and layers of ink for so long. On the right is a perfect bound notebook I made using a variety of recycled papers. These should keep me going for a while. Of course, I haven’t started drawing in any of them yet (don’t tell my students). Grace asked for clarification on what buffet has to do with Manifest Destiny, and I’ll write something about that later. Soon. It’s just that I goofed off all day today and now I have this syllabus and lesson plan to finish for tomorrow morning. Ah, the last minute desk jive. My favourite dance. Posted by jodi on January 12, 2010 at 8.15pm November 10, 2009 Courtesy of Peter Zimmerman, here are a couple of photos from On Crossing, my two-person show with Jessica Mills that opened on November 6 at the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. It was fantastic having Jessica here, in a my-two-separate-lives-colliding sort of way. I wish I’d had more time to show her the wonders of Windsor, but we did manage to hit a few highlights: Artcite, an assortment of my favourite bars and restaurants, the Lebanese bakeries along Wyandotte Street, and several dilapidated buildings and skanky Walkerville alleys. I think she liked it here. Posted by jodi on November 10, 2009 at 11.58am November 2, 2009 Please join us for On Crossing, a cross-border collaborative exhibition between Jessica Mills (Omaha, Nebraska) and Jodi Green (Windsor, Ontario). The exhibition is built around the collaborative print/mail art project “On Crossing”, which was recently featured in Graphica Creativa ‘09, an international print triennial at the Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking in Jyväskylä, Finland. On Crossing For more information on the project, read the statement for On Crossing See more images of the work installed at the Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking on the project’s Graphica Creativa ‘09 page See more work from Jessica Mills on her flickr portfolio Jessica is coming into town this weekend for our show and I’m beyond excited. Of course, I’m still finishing up my work for it, but that’s nothing new. Posted by jodi on November 2, 2009 at 11.23am September 26, 2009 Some images of On Crossing as it looked installed in the gallery at the Graphica Creativa Biennial in Jyväskylä, Finland. The piece is now on its way back home, where we’ll show it next in November at the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. Images courtesy Jyväskylä Art Museum. For more installation shots of the piece, visit our page on the Graphica Creativa ‘09 website. Posted by jodi on September 26, 2009 at 9.39am
practicing what I preach
ON CROSSING opening reception
On Crossing at Windsor Printmaker’s Forum
photo courtesy Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking
Friday, November 6, 7 to 10pm
Windsor Printmaker’s Forum Gallery
420 Devonshire Road (north entrance, off Assumption St)
See images of the work in progress at the On Crossing flickr pool
photo courtesy Jessica Ann Mills
On Crossing installation
