Another J.C.A. Blog!

Hey everyone!

Here is the link to the other Jacksonville Center for the Arts blog that I came across: http://studioschool.blogspot.com/ . It looks like it hasn't been updated in a while, but it's interesting to read about past events and see pictures of people actually using the space. Enjoy!!

Hope everyone is having a great weeked :)

Jessie

Architecture Website

This is a great website that I found last semester that features buildings and architects from all around the world. http://www.arcspace.com/index.shtml

Blackle!

Check out www.blackle.com, and set it as your home page! It saves energy from just being a black background page instead of white. It has saved over 1 million watt hours so far. :-D

Maryb

Picture of the Jacksonville Center Barn before renovations

This is a picture of the barn before we began renovation. Notice the front parking lot isn't there!

Floyd County Jamboree

Here's the website for the Floyd Country Store, host of the Friday Night Floyd County Jamboree.  We should plan a trip!

Website

Here is the contact information for Mary Tartaro, the director of the Perspectives Gallery in Squires Student Center. Martha Sullivan mentioned she had an exhibit at the Jacksonville Center before the renovation took place.

http://www.uusa.vt.edu/artGallery/index.php

weekly calendar

What's up this week?

Monday: Career Day in Cowgill lobby. 

2nd yr studio will be looking at and discussing the sketchbook assignment, pinning down the case study format, and continuing research and analysis phase, with an eye towards getting all the existing conditions documented and teasing out the potential of the site. 

Tuesday there will be presentations in the Felt class on Basic Felt Making and LTL, by Sarah Crouch and Jeff Miller, respectively.

In 4th year studio, Amrita Raja, Jessica Lamb, and Michelle Pyne will be pinning up at 3pm on Wednesday. All are welcome.

Thursday the Felt Constructions class will be cleaning wool procured by student Hunter Wilson. The venue has yet to be determined, but will most likely be off campus.

Second Year Project - Jacksonville Center for the Arts

Yesterday was our first site visit as a group to the Jacksonville Center for the Arts, in Floyd, Virginia. Martha Sullivan, President of the Center, gave us an extensive tour of the campus. She and Monique Dufour, Educational Programming Coordinator, answered the students' questions about the roles the Center plays within the community, and how the building(s) currently function in embodying those roles. The students have three tasks; 1. research and analysis, i.e., What is the Jacksonville Arts Center? What untapped potential exists within the site? 2. interior space planning How can the space best contribute to the larger mission and accommodate or engage the community's access to art? 3. detailed development of the Straw Bale building interior How can an interior intervention define and manifest the best possible life of a space?

What's this all about?

The purpose of this blog is to promote and facilitate information sharing and interaction between students of the second and fourth years of interior design, the Felt Constructions class, and thesis architecture students at Virginia Tech.