On an otherwise perfectly clear fall morning, we were treated to the sight of a new mountain of cloud rising out of the valley, taking its place among the other Smokies.
Two of our visiting artist/educators, blacksmith Nathan Blank and jeweler Angela Bubash, snuck away from the instructor retreat this morning to get married! Best man (and blacksmith) Jay Burnham Kidwell presented the happy couple at lunchtime, to cheers and applause. Kind of makes the whole thing feel even more like family.
Tonight’s activity at the instructor’s retreat was to have been a discussion about living the creative life. But Thursday is the last day to work and people are seriously cranking in the studios, so organizers Dana Moore, Christina Shmigel, and Jeff Goodman decided in the morning that maybe another discussion was not the thing.
So Jeff, Christina, and staff members Wes Stitt and Jennifer Sword ran around for a couple hours after lunch with video cameras and a short list of pithy questions about art making and the creative life, asked people for short answers, and then spent the afternoon editing them into a 20 minute video that was entertaining, quite funny, and filled with useful thoughts.
So everybody watched that and went back to work.
(You’ll get to see it, too, as soon as we have time to fix it up a little and post it online.)