Teaching at Truro Center for the Arts
More on our week in Truro. We pulled into the driveway for the apartment. It’s a spacious cape with the print press classrooms on the first floor. Everything at this school is top notch. Whether you are here as a teacher or student, the campus has everything to offer you as far as space, equipment, and inspiration. For me the inspiration was seeing the shed behind the house. The roof had an overhang that allowed students to paint outside, but be protected from the sun….so cool.
Next we entered the apartment. At the stop of the stairs is a life size altered doll made of wood and other fragments of metal. I’m sorry I did not photograph the inside of the apartment. The walls were filled with art. The kitchen and family room had tons of homemade pottery and art books. Part of the family room was three older desks in a row over looking the outside. I parked all my paints and collage media on the drafting table. I was only in the house for 5 minutes and I already felt inspired to paint and work in my journals. There was just something about this place that was peaceful and encoured your inner artist to come out.
We had a wonderful roommate, Mitch Lyons. Mitch teaches clay monoprint classes all over the world including Greece and Tuscany. I peeked in on one of his classes and I was so jealous….I want to take his class. Everyone was pulling the coolest prints from their clay slabs. Mitch is also know for his broomstick method of adding textures and colors to clay form….this is a must dvd for any potter.
On Monday, our dear friend Marie from The Stamp Act, came down to visit. We were going to work on our journals, but after the rain cleared up, we had sunny skies and decided to take a trip into Provincetown, one of my favorite places on the Cape. Here are pictures of Daisy and Jim pretending to be Dorothy from the Wizard Oz. There was a line of people waiting to take pictures of Daisy.
Marie mentioned she had a favorite house off Commercial Street that had the coolest sculptures, gardens, and stone wall. The stone wall had amethyst crystals, crystal globes and other geods embedded into the wall. Here are some pictures of the house and a window of a shop that sold altered clocks.
