Thanks for coming to Floyd!

2nd Year Ladies!  So good to have you out in Floyd.  I had a couple cute pics from lunch so I thought I would post them.  I put a couple of others up on the JCA Facebook group page if you want to check them out, look for "Floyd's Jacksonville Center for the Arts."  I hope you have had a nice weekend after all of your hard work. I know folks have enjoyed looking at your concepts and fabulous models.  

Good Luck!

We are so happy to have you out in Floyd on Friday. I can't wait to see all of the hard work your class has been doing!  Good luck this week and be well!

weekly calendar (and what a week it is!)

Get ready, here we go! Monday is a bit of a three-ring circus, with seniors pinning up their final presentations, second years discussing their boards for the Jacksonville Center project, and Pella Final presentations by the architecture thesis students beginning at 1:00 pm in Room 300 in Cowgill. At 3:30 pm, interior design studio faculty will be meeting to jury the thesis award for seniors. On Wednesday, second years will submit their entries for the poster contest. The winning entry, selected by Martha Sullivan, will be plastered all over the school, distributed to faculty mailboxes, etc., to let everyone know about Friday's review and exhibit of work in Floyd. Wednesday is the last in-class opportunity for second years to revise and refine before "pencils down." All work must be complete and in my office by Thursday at 5pm. No exceptions! Second years will meet out at the JCA in Floyd to set up around 11 am. Friday in Floyd will be a great opportunity for a conversation about the semester's work, and a chance to celebrate the students' learning and achievements. The exhibit immediately following will allow us to share the work with the community, and we will finish the night off at the famous Floyd jamboree, so wear your dancing shoes!

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Last week, we had such a flurry of activity that the weekly calendar never made it onto the blog! Some of the highlights were the Eva Maddox lecture, the storyboards made by the second years for the Jacksonville Center project, and the week long thesis exhibit in Cowgill lobby. This week, second years are working on plans and sections for the JCA, seniors are getting ready for their final individual pin-ups before the April 27th end-of-year review. Wednesday at 7 pm, Marlon Blackwell will be speaking in Hancock 100. Thursday, all classes will be cancelled in observance of the April 16th Day of Remembrance. Friday at 3pm, Sarah Crouch, Michelle Pyne, and Amrita Raja will present their projects for critique. All are welcome to join in the discussion.

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This week will be full of fabulous adventures! The second years begin on Monday with a pin-up and discussion of their diagrams for the Jacksonville Center for the Arts. On Tuesday in Felt Constructions, students will be continuing the pattern making project organized by Jessica Lamb and Olivia Tsonas. At 2 pm, there is a lecture by Philippe Baumann in Hancock 100. The architecture thesis students are preparing for their thesis pin-up in Cowgill next week, and Sarah Crouch, a 4th year interior design student, is pinning up at 2 pm on Wednesday. On Wednesday at 7 pm, there will be a lecture by Juhani Pallasmaa from Helsinki. He is the author of "The Eyes of the Skin." On Thursday, the Felt Dyeing workshop, organized by Jeff Miller, Eirini Asprouda, and Adriana Serrano will take place in the FabLab between 12:30-1:45 pm. Come join us! Here are a couple links to cool things in Portland, where I just attended the 97th annual meeting of the ACSA: Rhiza A+D, a firm that does public art installations and architecture projects, Cacao, a crazy chocolate cafe, and Powell's bookstore, a dizzying labyrinth of books!

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This week is very compressed for me and us, as I will be attending the ACSA annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. On Monday, the second years discussed the Time Capsule exercise, and began working on the diagramming portion of the SD phase for the Jacksonville Center. The seniors had a small group pin-up to discuss progress on Michelle Pyne and Tara Bahavar's projects. The architecture thesis students, Jessica Fulk and Ryan Hausmann, also had a small group pin-up in preparation for the upcoming Cowgill lobby reviews the week of April 6th. On Tuesday, the second years will receive the section model portion of the SD tasks, and perhaps begin a dialogue between diagramming at the macro scale and zooming in to study spaces at the micro scale. Also on Tuesday, the felt class will be making felt from cleaned and carded wool in the FabLab, and there will be a lecture at 2 pm by Margarita McGrath in Hancock 100. On Friday, Martha Sullivan will be stopping by the second year studio to discuss progress on the diagrams, and will do some strategizing with the group regarding display for the final pin-up at the Center. From last week's Ferrari symposium, a link to Bruce Mau's latest endeavor, and looking forward to next weekend, a link to the Fashioning Felt show in NYC!                

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The first studio meeting after Spring Break is packed with excitement! On Monday, the second year studio will wrap up development of the powerpoint presentation that demonstrates their take on the POTENTIAL of the Jacksonville Center for the Arts re-design exercise. We will also be discussing the third round of sketching exercises and completing the binding of the case study research into a book that will be available as a reference to all students. At 3:30 or 4 pm, we will present the powerpoint to Martha Sullivan, President of the JCA, and get her feedback. If time permits, we will go over the Time Capsule exercise due next Monday. On Wednesday at 11:15 am in Cowgill 300, Professor Marc Baraness of the graduate faculty of the Ecole Nationale Superieur Architecture in Lyon, France will give a lecture entitled, On Urban Design: Between History, Industry, and Nature. At 3pm, fourth year students Amrita Raja and Jessica Lamb have their second pin-up of the semester. On Thursday and Friday, there will be lectures and other events in connection with the Ferrari Symposium. Follow the link for more information. Welcome back!