Thursday 3/23/17, Spectrum Artworks, Open Studio Hours 1-3.30 pm, 2.5 hours
This week I got sick again. I've been sick with a cold twice this year already... All the more proof that I'm working more than my body can handle. Anyways, my sickness messed up all my plans this week, and I had to miss class on Monday. On Tuesday I went to class, but was sneezing and coughing so much that everyone told me to go back home and sleep. On Wednesday I got to take it easy, since I only had a mid-term review in my figure drawing class, which only took about forty minutes with the preparations.
On Thursday I was still losing my voice all the time, but not too sick anymore, so I went to Spectrum. There I was glad to hear that Jes had a job for me that didn't require much speaking (except for the occasional greeting to the people who went in and out of the studio), she wanted me to work on my lesson plan. Luckily both Iris and Taylor, the other volunteers, were also there, so they were able to do the other tasks for Jes.
Working on the lesson plan took longer than I expected. Since there was no wi-fi, I had to use my phone whenever I had to look something up online, so the process turned into multitasking between the phone and the computer. When I finally finished, it was already 3.30pm and Jes told me I could go home since I was still sick.
Later that night, there was a meeting of the teaching artist practicum class. It was a lot of fun to hear everyone's crazy stories about their residencies.
On Friday I did not go to Spectrum, since I had a meeting afternoon, and had to work on artwork for the MCAD Mini-con. I was very behind with the con-stuff, so I had to do pretty much everything on Friday... I finished working at 4am on Saturday morning, and couldn't really sleep after, since I was too excited about the con.
In the con I got a table next to the pop-corn machine, which I wasn't too fond of, since the greasy smell oozing out of it felt strong enough to stick to my comics... Despite this, I was able to sell enough of my comics, zines and stickers to get at least my printing money back and more. The best part was just walking around and trading art with everyone though. I got a lot of amazing stuff and technically paid no money for it!
Anyways, this journal entry wasn't too heavily focused on my residencies or teaching artist stuff, but more of an update of what is going on in Hanna's life. Next time I'll hopefully have something with more TA-substance! Until then my readers!