Love, Dreams and Other Impossible Things

So it's been about 6 months since our last post, this is not because we were in a collective coma, or being held captive by the family of angry sparrows nesting in the rafters of the music studio, or even due to a bout of amnesia resulting from an alien encounter... Nope, we've just been busy. 

Julia and Robert now have a baby, his name is StudioBaby and he is our new mascot!...

Dexter (the stone crab) ate Jeremy (the blue crab) in a sort of Hannibal Lecteresque display of wits and morbid appetite...

The studio has been shuffled and reshuffled, walls have been built and they are awesome and their awesomeness ought to  basked in...

The Friday Morning drawing group has earned itself a nickname, no I will not tell you what it is. :)

And yes, we have acquired even more fishtanks! we are now YayStudio, Gallery AND Aquarium,  almost as impressive as the Georgia Aquarium but slightly smaller and considerably cheaper. 

The Revive Show was marvelous, thanks to everyone who came out and participated.

And now we are getting ready for our next show, Love, Dreams and Other Impossible Things, opening on September 17th at 7pm. The show features installations and photographic self portraits by Athens based emerging artist Fiona Nolan. Fiona's work is both playful and emotive as she converts the space to allow the viewer to literally step into her imagination.

We have sponsorship from The Beer Growler, Sweet-n-Sinful and Pine Street Market- So I'm excited, StudioBaby is excited! Dexter is looking forward to eating meeting new people. So its really in everyone's best interest to show up and enjoy themselves. 

Also, I promise to be better about the blog now that the coma inducing, alien sparrows from a few doors down have moved out and left us alone to blog in peace.  

Call for Art – Revive, a reunion show of Agnes Scott College Art Alumnae

We are excited to announce our first curated show at Yay Studio!

Call for Art – Revive, a reunion show of Agnes Scott College Art Alumnae

Requirements: Artist must be an Alumnae of Agnes Scott College

Media: open to 2 and 3 dimensional works, pieces must fit through a standard door.

Number of pieces: up to 3 Send .jpg submissions (up to two images of each piece submitted) to gallery@yaystudio.com. Please also include an artist’s statement.

Submissions due by 5 pm (eastern time), March 25th, 2011.

Artists will be notified of their acceptance status by 5 pm (eastern time), April 1st, 2011.

All accepted artwork must be delivered to Yay Studio no later than 5 pm, April 8th, 2011.

Art work may be picked up from Yay Studio May 21st and May 22nd.

Shipping/transportation is the responsibility of the artist.

Revive - a reunion show of Agnes Scott College Art Alumnae
Opening: April 16th, 4-9 pm
Yay Studio
2830 Franklin Street
Avondale Estates, GA 30002

Revive is a show featuring a reunion of alumnae artists from Agnes Scott College. The featured artists have gone on to careers in fields such as industrial design, tattoo artistry, graphic design and more.

For more information, contact gallery@yaystudio.com or visit www.yaystudio.com/revive

The Mural is finished!

Jennifer is awesome! She painted us a mural and it is totally brilliant.
Proof:

Julia and the wall, before the mural...

Jennifer being totally amazing...

New and improved wall, with kick-ass mural!

RAD

To everyone who missed coming out to RAD yesterday, it was awesome and you should be sad that you missed it. To everyone that did come out...Thanks and it was awesome!!!! Our studio, complete with hand painted sign by Leah, was all clean and spangly and filled with Art!  And somehow it is still clean and spangly today....we shall see if it stays this way until next weekend for the Paper Moon launch party!

Studio crabs!

Robert set up the salt water tank in the studio and today we put things in it! two crabs and a blenny, Leonard... eventually we will fill the tank with fish so that there is no room for water...only fish! bwahahahahaha! and the studio will become FishStudio! and the fish will take over the world! but for now it's just Leonard and his crabby companions.
We actually have a second, smaller tank that lives in the bathroom, home to Jeremy. Jeremy is the larger of the crabs who has been put in time out for eating the rest of the fish that would have joined Leonard and the two smaller crabs had they not been eaten alive by Jeremy. In a few months Jeremy, who has made the mistake of being a delicious blue crab, will be large enough that we can cook him and eat him, and we'll just see how much he likes that.

Moving Day!

Well, technically moving day happened mid December, but mid January seemed like as good a time as any to catch up on blog posting. Also the entire city is shut down due to the two inches of snow that fell last week which has now turned into two inches of ice covering everything in the city making it impossible to go anywhere....so blogging! and now moving pictures:
This is the Gallery:

This is what we did to it:

This is where the picture showing it all nice and tidied up and in use should be:

yeah, didn't take that photo.
:)

Anyway, believe it or not we now have a permanent photography cyc, a seating area, a teaching area and three individual work areas... and before the snow hit, turned to ice and the world ended, I actually put up shelves a light and a picture frame:

Happy New Year!

December Crafting!

Just a little update on YayStudio, we officially move into our space next week! the ceiling has been insulated and the space will be all ours come monday! which of course means it's crafts time again! Next Saturday, the 11th we will be having our December crafts event! 

As I'm sure you all know December 11th is National Noodle Ring Day so to celebrate we will be making holiday ornaments and greeting cards. 

Unfortunately we will have missed Hanukkah this year, as it ends on the 9th, but Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Years and National "Hi Neighbor" Month are still up for grabs! 

It's $10 a crafter and we will be there from 3-5pm,

So come out and make Grandma a Festive Boxing Day card, or a Read-A-New-Book Month ornament!

A Happy National Fritters Day to all!