You can view the work I do for this project here.

You can see the work of other participants here.

The history of 100 Days:
In the summer of 2008, I decided I wanted to be REALLY productive in the studio and then realized that I had just about exactly 100 days off from teaching. I gave myself the challenge of making a new painting-a-day for 100 days: http://cmoutside.wordpress.com/

I set some guidelines for myself, and knowing how easy it was to get distracted during the summer, I decided to make a blog for the project and spread the word about it in the hopes that friends and family would hold me accountable if I skipped a day and that going public with my project would be great motivation. Several days into the project, my colleague Steve Ersinghaus decided he wanted to crank out some new work as well and gave himself the challenge of following each of my daily paintings with a daily poem. We both made it through the summer and published a collection of the products: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/356800

Last summer, more artists were hungry to join in. Steve Ersinghaus started each day with a short story and many of us responded with a painting, poem, photograph, audio piece, hypertext etc. Because Steve had responded to a painting of mine each day the previous summer, I decided to take a word, phrase or sentence from his story and use that as a title for my daily painting. My work wasn’t an illustration of the story, but an image built on some concept or vocabulary found in the text. The words were simply a place to look for a starting point for paint. There were about 15 participants altogether, most of them connecting back to the group in some way.

This year we expect even more on the roster. Several of us plan on springboarding off of John Timmons daily short films. While 100 days of any creative activity is a worthy challenge, we are encouraging interested participants to link in to the collective group in some way, so the nature of this project remains collaborative.  All participants daily posts will be streamed into Netvibes, like last year: http://www.netvibes.com/sersinghaus#100_Days_%3A%3A_Summer_2009

http://onehundreddays.net/

http://www.netvibes.com/100days2010/#The_100_Days_Projects100

Click here to link to Tunxis podcast page.

In the press 100 Days creativity talk in the Bristol Press.

Copies of the new publication can be ordered at 617-778-5265.

  

January 5-9 I had the opportunity to create some new work while I was an artist in residence at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, MA, just outside of Boston.  During my week’s stay I worked with students in the middle and upper schools, installed an exhibition, gave a slide talk, and created 100 small new gouache drawings on leaves.  The students at BCDS are incredibly engaged and were really fun to work with.  This doesn’t surprise me, as my good friend and prolific artist Rebecca Roberts teaches drawing and painting there.  Rebecca and I got to know each other while in school together at Alfred University and The University of Iowa.  You can see more about my time at BCDS here.

Part I 

Part II 

Part III

100 Days, a compilation of the 100 drawings I did this summer, paired with the 100 poems written by Steve Ersinghaus, is now available on Blurb!