Cassie’s Art Show and OpeningApril 25th, 2010

It’s been a very eventful and busy month!  I attended several great art openings, including our friends Darren and Ann.  I also saw some great electronic music concerts including my friend and past-classmate Tim, and the Annex group concert:

To add to the excitement, Cassie just finished setting up her show today and it will be on display at gallery 214 on campus at NIU.  It is turning out to be a fantastic show!  (As if I would have expected any less)

The show features a dollhouse (shown in progress above), as well as drawings, gouache paintings and photographs.

She also has a simple new website up that I helped design:  www.cassiemarie.com

May is shaping up to be a very busy and eventful month, and Cassie is looking forward to finishing up her final semester of Grad school.  Great stuff is to come!

April ArrivesApril 6th, 2010

A new month begins, and so does the new quarter at the Institute of Art.  Additionally, my wife is hard at work preparing for her gallery show at the end of the month as she nears the end of Grad school.  Over the Easter weekend, I had a great time visiting friends in Madison and my parents and I even went golfing on a breezy but fun excursion.


Cassie has been showing her work at several galleries, including the ‘ARC’ gallery in Chicago, and the Graduate Art Association show at the Annex studio in Dekalb.


We also had the pleasure of seeing my friend Evan Merz perform his thesis electro-acoustic concert, as well as a show by our professor, Dr. James Phelps along with program alumni, Michael Taylor.  As you can see, they had a very loud and ‘rawkus’ setup going on:


I’m starting to get some work done on the Mix Methods site and am working on some new songs.  I am also looking forward to a new upcoming recording project with my good friend Tony Memmel.  We are also going to see our favorite musician, Josh Ritter, in Chicago and taking a weekend excursion to Galena in May.  All things considered, this should keep me out of trouble for quite a while.