New Website, Upcoming Events….

(Round 33, Jessica Figueroa and Myself looking good)

Hey everyone.  WELCOME to the new site.  I’m choosing a wordpress based site so that it can be a bit more interactive in the way of communicating the ideas and stories that are happening.  The Transpire Project is based on the interaction with people and their stories… so I hope this new formate will help communicate those connections.

 

I have some great events coming up, so please click the calendar link on the side to see what’s going on. 

 

I am currently working on some studio work… and putting together a short video about how art is made.  These activities are taking a lot of my time, so the live stuff will be few in far between in the next few months.  But I hope to bring out some new stuff by the end of summer that will get you excited as I am.  

 

Earth Day Festival | April 19th

I will be painting at this event during the afternoon festivities.  The painting I will create will be up for auction… all the proceeds going to help running next year’s festival.  You should come out for the fun.  Here is a description below about what is going on during the day….

Sat, Apr 19, 2pm – 5pm

Cooper Elementary School 1901 SW Genesee Street Seattle, WA 98106

www.cooper.seattleschools.org

site phone: 252.8170

Come celebrate EARTH DAY with many local environmental organizations at Cooper Elementary School on Saturday April 19th from 2-5pm. This celebratory event follows Duwamish Alive!, a volunteer forest restoration effort along the Duwamish River. Come explore Pigeon Point Park / West Duwamish Greenbelt and celebrate EARTH DAY with us!! There will be Performing Artists, a Forest Film Debut, many Arts & Education Opportunities, a Raffle, and lots of Free Food! Come Make Earth Day Eco T-Shirts! 2pm-5pm Teaching Artist: Amy Pille Rejuvenate a plain t-shirt from home by learning how to print nature images onto fabric! Use leaves, cardboard stencils and found objects to create bold colorful patterns that transform your shirt into a work of art you can wear! Participants must bring their own t-shirt and bag to take shirt home in. Guardian must be present to sign up youth to participate. Location: Cooper Elementary School 1901 SW Genesee Street Seattle, WA 98106 www.cooper.seattleschools.org see www.naturec.org for directions, or call us: 206-923-0853 See you there!!

Easter Art Project

(painting from the 745 am service. so good for so early….)

I was at the Grove Community Church in Chandler, AZ over Easter weekend. they’ve had me out before and we’ve built quite a nice friendship together. good peeps. really into art. they wanted to do multiple art pieces over the weekend depicting the story of jesus’ death and resurrection and how there is “transformative” life in Him. so i went….

sunday morning is a crazy time for anyone who works at a church. colby martin (the worship leader) and i left the house at 530 am to get to the church to set up. since a greater population attend church on easter sunday, the grove had 5 services going on instead of there usual three. i only had to paint during four of them… starting at 745 and ending around 1 pm…. but it was still a whirlwind. we would literally have 7 minutes between each service. i did four different paintings that morning. in this 7 minutes, i would have just enough time to switch boards, shake a few hands, and go pee.

but it all worked out fine. and i think i made some pretty cool stuff. below are three of the four paintings (first one up top) i made that morning. likei said, the theme was transformation…

service 2

service 3

(i do have to say that this is very similar to a blaine fontana painting. different, but based off an idea of his. he’s rad by the way….

serrvice 4

all these images are 4ft x 4ft and are acrylic paint on hardwood.

Changes and Derek Webb

I’m having a lot of change over right now… so sorry there isn’t much here…

but there will be more to come.

 

May 20, 2008

Derek Webb | Washington DC

 Coffeehouse with Derek Webb during the Acting On Aids Summit in Washington DC. He will be singing… i will be painting. 

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