This Week

We did not have much time to complete studio work this week. Everyone was busy writing art history papers and studying for Italian and art history midterms. We had an interesting lecture on Tuesday given by a lady named Heather White van Stolk. She studied jewelry and metalsmithing at RISD, was a student in EHP, and now is back in Rome with a Fulbright grant. I really enjoyed her jewelry, because she repeated different parts of her body, such as fingers, lips, eyes and teeth to make beautiful objects. We even got to hold her jewelry, some of which were to be sold for $3,000.It's funny because it's along the lines of what I've been creating in the last few weeks. It inspired me to finish this drawing, which originally was a drawing of only ears. Unfortunately the scanner was a little smaller than the page, so imagine it not cropped so close on the left and right.

Fingers and Ears. Conte

This week we also booked our plane tickets to Barcelona, Tangier (Morocco), and Paris. 

Early Friday morning our EHP group leaves for our 10 day southern tour to Sicily, the birthplace of the mafia!