Jay Fox ~ UW-Milwaukee, WI
“Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. “ -Benjamin Franklin
I think Ben was on to something when
he said this, and the deeper I get into building up an MFA exhibition the more
I need to remind myself of this. I
am currently working between my subterranean paper studio, the ground level
woodshop, and the “towering” print facilities and studio. Switching gears to
transition between spaces has been tricky, but a good full day will utilize all
three (sometimes successfully).
To understand what draws me to fastidious and ingenious studios you must understand my previous roles in studios. I have been lucky enough to follow an academic path that has provided printmaking, woodworking, and (at times) papermaking studios when I required them. The only catch, I managed most of those studios for a few years. I became a broken record of studio etiquette, preaching to students and sneaking in work around the academic calendar’s lulls.
To understand what draws me to fastidious and ingenious studios you must understand my previous roles in studios. I have been lucky enough to follow an academic path that has provided printmaking, woodworking, and (at times) papermaking studios when I required them. The only catch, I managed most of those studios for a few years. I became a broken record of studio etiquette, preaching to students and sneaking in work around the academic calendar’s lulls.
