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.
