Today is business as usual. Alden will go to school. Robbi will draw stuff. And I will do my best to entertain two small and ever-moving boys. It’s likely donuts will be involved.
This one gets badder by the day.
Tomorrow, we’re heading to Lockbriar Farms for surely photogenic antics in the pumpkin patch.
On Sunday, we will leave our children with friends, our dog and cats with Tilly, and head over the bridge for a two-day residency at Maryland Institute College of Art. That’s MICA, to those of you in the know. It’s one of the nation’s leading institutions of art and design, and they have asked us to come do our thing.
We’ll spend most of the day Sunday with the first-year illustration graduate students doing a three-part workshop focused on collaboration, running a small press, and book production. We have been assured that there will be pizza.
Monday morning, we’ll listen to the students pitch ideas for their first book projects, giving critique and advice. And then at 12:15, we will give our new lecture/talk/illustration overload event to any and all who wish to see it. Yes, the public is invited. That means you.
The talk will be in MICA’s Main building, pictured here.
Its resemblance to the Parthenon seems not accidental.
Perhaps you have no interest in hearing us yammer on about ourselves. We get that. But you still might be interested in admiring the sculpture or sliding down this marble bannister?
If we have inspired you to spend your lunch hour with us on Monday, here are the relevant details.
Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr present:
The Virtues of Creative Impatience
Maryland Institute College of Art
Main Building
1300 Mt Royal, room M110
Baltimore, MD
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Hope to see you there.
