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The 4-Job Season written @ 6:44 PM on July 12, 2004 I am tired. I am stretched thin. I am not aware it's summer and this shouldn't be happening. I feel great actually! And I'm not being sarcastic. I actually had a few things to report here, but every time I sit down to my computer to type I forget them. Huh. Let me try and remember . . . Hmm . . . Oh, okay. I almost forgot completely! Work! Job #1: NKU summer theatre. Here I'm scraping the bottom. This whole getting-up-at-seven thing five-six days a week is no longer sitting well with me. The good news is that the last show is almost built, we have strike on Saturday, and the bulk of my work will be done by next Friday... so I might actually have a vacation! This is a big deal to me. *applause* But Job #2 is just starting... Job #2: Ovation Theatre. I began doing carpentry work with them last week (*gulp*), neglecting to tell them that I am not a great carpenter. But I built most of their walls for their last show in less than two days, putting them ahead of schedule by about a week. Oh, the irony! The TD is a cool guy named Patrick (late 30-something?), whose jaw just about dropped when I strutted in with a saw, a drill, and a handful of screws and built him a dozen flats from scrap. Yeah, I was on fire. The scenic designer for this show is a faculty member up at Miami U, who clearly wasn't accumstomed to having to build his own sets unless he absolutely needed to. Having your own scene shop is a bonus to a theatre designer, you know, but he did fine exercising his perogatives as a scenic designer. The artistic director told me he might hire me out as a master painter in the fall, which would be a nod for me and money in my pocket. We'll see how I settle into my 19-hour semester first this fall and then think about a job. Job #3: the Arts Council. Okay, so they're not technically paying me for this job, but with the amount of work that comes with it, it might as well be another job. This job, however, is particularly exciting, since the council is launching its plans to bring an arts Renaissance to the W.C. Firstly, I'm schmoozing with the higher-ups in the township and figuring out the bureaucracy. You know, putting names with faces, mentally logging the individuals away in my mind for future reference when I take over the world. Yeah. That sort of thing. *wink* Secondly, I'm on three committees... the planning committee, the theatre arts comittee, and the visual arts committee. Because clearly I don't have enough to do. *snicker* On the planning committee, I'm helping to orchestrate a huge fine arts sampler program running six weeks long in the business district. I'm designing the logo, the letterheads, the press releases, and the posters for the event. Take that, graphic design gods! As well, I hope to be showcasing my own work... which means I need business cards and I need to pull some of my marketing savvy tricks I've been learning lately. I have about 10 finished pieces I can put on display, I think, plus a couple works in progress. I get paid for that. Tomorrow I have a meeting with the visual arts committee to discuss direction and plan of attack. We've got all sorts of things planned for the local artists! As for the theatre committee, as I've written before we're busy resurrecting the community theatre that went kaput a couple years ago. I have a meeting for that tonight. *maw-ha-ha-haaa, rubs hands gleefully* Job #4: my own artwork. Yes, I've turned it into a job. Not a night passes when I don't work on my painting and my graphic design work. I finished painting Jessica's face recently. I'll be finished in time for the fine arts sampler in August. My landscape paintings have been turning out more successfully than I thought, too. Hopefully I'll get a respectable series out of that. And hopefully I'll finish my website soon. All I have to do is take some digital pics of my work, but, alas, I am without a digital camera. I'll figure something out. *** So! Incredibly busy! Incredibly tired! But I have enjoyed almost every minute of it. Last Friday I went with my roommate Tricia to Hyde Park, where Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre was having a special showing of her artwork in one of the schnazzy galleries there. She does have some beautiful pastel paintings. The showing was supposed to be a fundraiser for the Cincinnati Opera. She sold her Carmen painting, and a couple of her original works for children's stories. She also had about nine original Harry Potter sketches, which she matted and framed. The sketches included an original portrait of Mad-Eye Moody, Sirius Black (which the out-of-the-know gallery management titled "Harry and Serious." That made me laugh.), and some fun scenes from the books that you can see at the start of every chapter. All of them sold. The artist herself was there, but there were too many rich people sipping martini and wine for us to find her. I wanted her to sign my press release of her opening. I'll tell you, the well-to-do in that part of town do a weird thing where if you say, "Excuse me," they look at you like you have three heads. Of course, it's also true they had their finest pearls and cuff links on, and I was in my paint-stained jeans and t-shirt. But what can an artist do? Mary GrandPre would have understood. Unfortunately, I can't insult and belittle the people in that part of town because one day they'll be my clients. No one ever told me that being an artist would include a lot of silence. But then the work should be able to speak for itself, n'est-ce que pas? Anyhoo, I've got to go to my theatre committee meeting. Just thought I'd make a quick update.
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