I just completed my first residency at the Art Institute of Boston’s MFA Program in Visual Studies: 10 very full and intensive days and nights. I met many talented, generous and good-humored people: both students and faculty. It was an exhilarating and surreal experience. Besides the on-going critiquing, critical theory classes and an elective seminar there were 4 guest artists: Wayne Gonzalez, Dawoud Bey, Ellen Harvey and Mariam Ghani. All of this raised insightful issues concerning my own practice and where I go from here. I’ll be writing about this in a summary paper posting soon.

Of course now that I am back home in my other life, I’m trying to sift through all the comments, theory and scribbles in my notebook. I have a lot to digest and absorb and I’m looking forward to all this dust settling. I need to plant anchor in the studio.