I really tried to be good about posting on a regular basis and was doing one a week usually on Saturdays. But 2 weeks flew by with so much to do on so many fronts and here I am already in Savannah about to start classes in the morning. I felt like the circus performer who spins all the plates on the sticks and has to keep rushing from one to another to keep them all aloft. So I managed to pack up all my supplies from the studio, stock it with some items to be sold (as well as package extra inventory to leave at home), finish up my teaching responsibilities (except for not being there the last half day, with super’s permission) and packed up everything I could think of for painting, drawing, clothes, bike,etc. into my van and hit the road with my husband at 1:30PM last Wed. We got as far as Newark, Delaware that night, driving through rain and thunderstorms on the Garden State Prkwy through NJ traffic. Arrived at the HoJo’s in Delaware to discover Richard didn’t have his license. He was flying home today (Sun. 6/22) and driving the rest of the way to Savannah too. So we called his office to have them get his extra one–lucky he has a duplicate– and express it to the Westin Hotel in Savannah where we were staying the first night.
Got there Thurs. about 6:15PM and a tornado had just touched down that day ahead of our arrival. But the city didn’t look too worse for the wear in the main downtown and we have just had a terrific few days exploring, eating great low country food and settling me into my lovely house in the historic district and my studio at Alexander Hall on campus. The campus is really spread out all over the historic district and my studio and classes are in an old factory on the far northwest corner right under the Tallmadge Bridge which spans the Savannah River . I am going to be the troll who paints under the bridge, right beside all the freighters and tankers and the railroad yards!So I brought Richard to the airport today after walking to 10 AM Mass at the Cathedral and brunch at a great place across from it called J Christopher’s. Now the work begins: Formal Aspects of Painting begins at 8AM, followed by Graduate Drawing at 11AM. I am also taking Contemporary Art History on line and my lap top won’t work and the wifi signal at my house -”The Norris Cook House”, thank you very much- is weak even with Richard’s laptop which he had to leave behind for me. Fortunately the library is right around the corner and up a couple blocks so I will be spending alot of time there.
I will try to get back to a regular schedule of posting on Sat. for however many of you there may be out there following this. I have alot of work ahead and am pretty nervous anticipating it. But I’m sure it will be better once I begin and it’s a fantastic opportunity that I will try to keep sharing as I go along. Goodnight, y’all from Savannah!
