Category Archives: sculpture

“Alas, Time stays, — we go!”

Posted on July 10, 2015 by jyourist

A friend of mine is teaching a summer school class about the city of Chicago and is out of town for a couple of days, so I am subbing for her. The class is small and the students are 6th … Continue reading →

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Doris Salcedo

Posted on March 24, 2015 by jyourist

We saw an incredible exhibit today at the MCA in Chicago—Doris Salcedo, a sculptor from Bogota Colombia, whose work layers discarded, dismembered, and broken products and materials and recombines these objects signifying lost humanity. The once fully functional objects she … Continue reading →

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Found Books, Found Poetry

Posted on December 8, 2014 by jyourist

After the intense Constitution test a couple of weeks ago, and it being the last day before Thanksgiving break, I felt we as a class needed a little down time. (I know the students did too.) We went to the … Continue reading →

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Li Hongbo

Posted on February 1, 2014 by jyourist

Li Hongbo is an amazing Chinese artist who takes the tradition of paper lanterns to an unimaginable extreme. By gluing stacks of paper together (upwards of 20,000 sheets) and carving the stacks as if it is a hunk of wood … Continue reading →

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Asa Ames

Posted on August 26, 2013 by jyourist

Very little is known about the folk artist Asa Ames who died of consumption in 1851 when he was 27 years old. We know that he worked in Evans, Erie County, New York-just south of Buffalo. In the federal census … Continue reading →

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“We the People” ….. in pieces

Posted on June 23, 2012 by jyourist

In a metal workshop in Shanghai, the artist Danh Vo is in the process of having a full-scale copy of Bartholdi’s 1886 Statue of Liberty recreated. However, the intention is that the pieces will not be connected together, but will … Continue reading →

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Luau detritus

Posted on February 17, 2012 by jyourist

Short post tonight. Pretty wiped out. Long day. Chaperoned the 5th grade Luau, with its remnants pictured above. I am convinced more than ever to continue to teach 8th graders. Aloha Oe…

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Stroke of Insight

Posted on October 28, 2011 by jyourist

Last weekend JB went to visit a good friend of his in Indiana and met Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who was working with his friend, Joe Lamantia, to create a large, uber life-sized model of the brain, which will be used to … Continue reading →

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Inspired by Kiki

Posted on August 16, 2011 by jyourist

Kiki Smith is an artist whose work has always inspired me. Primarily known as a sculptor, she also works in many media including photography which was the focus of I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith, an exhibition … Continue reading →

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Lightning Buddha

Posted on August 15, 2011 by jyourist

The night we came back from Three Oaks, after coming back into the yard to enjoy the live music after dropping off our things in the house (see yesterday’s post), we noticed a huge branch laying across the fire pit … Continue reading →

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