by Lauren | Oct 6, 2010 | endangered, genius, trash
Flattened Musk Turtle Today my students made sculptures out of trash. In an assignment that I borrowed from Maine book artist Rebecca Goodale, they chose an endangered species from Alabama and created a sculpture made from garbage they found on campus. What drew me to... 
by Lauren | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
This week, as I sat down to dinner, a guy told me that he saw “no intrinsic value” in art. Stunned into silence, I listened to him explain, in his uber-scientific way, how once someone derives a brief moment of pleasure from looking at a painting, it... 
by Lauren | May 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
What is it about summer that makes all of my friends decide to become pet owners? The reasons vary, from loneliness to boredom, but one friend told me that she was adopting a kitten because she needed a “guard cat” now that all of her neighbors were moving... 
by Lauren | Mar 23, 2010 | house
Someone should write a survival guide for growing up—like the ones they give to freshmen when they arrive on campus. That’s what I was thinking as I lay sprawled on my living room floor in the middle of winter. In that moment, as brief as an eclipse, as strong as the... 
by Lauren | Nov 30, 2009 | art, iron, Sloss
This week, my adventure-seeking took me to historic Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, AL. Part of me has always wanted to try working in metal. I attribute this mostly to watching metal artists at Penland and partly to “Flashdance.” In both cases, there were...