I'm excited to have been included in the selection process for the Boehm Gallery Ceramics Biennial – Dark Matter. Opens in a couple of week in San Marcos, California. If you're in the area, head on out!

We spent a big portion of the Fall 2013 building and firing a new wood kiln at IUS.  We built the new kiln on the new kiln pad, a project that finally came to fruition after years of meetings, emails, and more meetings.  The wood kiln is the first kiln we built in the new facility, but I hope to build a couple of more kilns as space and time allows.  In any event, here are some pictures of the build and first firing …

Hi all.  I've been really into this 1 Second Everyday project started by Cesar Kuriyama.  The basic premise of this project is, "What if you could remember something from every day of your life?".  It doesn't seem like 1 second is enough to remember much, but you'd be surprised what 1 second of visual and audio information can bring back to your memory.  

I was also a funder on his Kickstarter campaign, so I've been fortunate to receive updates and new releases – also was able to get the app before January first, so I'll be able to compile my 2013 year starting from Jan. 1st.  

In any event, I've been shooting my 1 second snippets all year and at the end of each month, I "mash my seconds" in the 1 Second Everyday app and post it to my YouTube channel.  To keep track of each month (and keep them in succession), I added a new page to this site to post them on.  I can't decide where exactly to link it in my site navigation, so for now, here's the link. https://www.brianharperstudio.com/1-second-everyday/

If you're interested, check out the app – it's available for iOS and Android.  It's really a cool project.

Enjoy!

Brian

Hi everyone –

I just posted a new work to the "Oscillations" page on this website.  It's actually a work I completed a couple of months ago, but I've been so busy with everything, I'm just now getting around to posting it.  It's in the show at Appalachian Center for Craft right now, so if you're in that area, please consider checking it out in person.  

Obviously, its similar to the some of the others in that series, however this work is much smaller and more tightly compacted than many of the other forms as I've been challenging myself to build those forms smaller and smaller.

In any event, that's it for now.  I still more new work to post, so stay tuned for more updates.

Brian 

Hi everyone –

Just a quick update – the other day I shipped off some new work to Appalachian Center for Craft for an exhibition they are having of works by the 2013 ACC Summer Faculty.  I'll be teaching a 3 day workshop there on using multiples as a mechanism for generating form and content.  I'll be covering everything from 3D printing to clay extrusion, so it should be pretty fun.  In any event, the two new works aren't even up on my website yet (well, one of them is the index page image, but I'm a little behind in getting more work posted in its entirety here)

And here's one of the new works .. 

That's it for now!

Brian

The video that the IU Southeast Public Relations department made about my Open Crowd Project came out a little while ago.  Here it is:

It's a well made video, even if I hate to hear myself talking!  During that project, they also wrote an article for Inside IU – an IU wide online newsletter.  Here's a link to that article: http://inside.iu.edu/features/stories/2013-03-20-story-3d-iuse.shtml

Additionally, the article was published in the IU Southeast magazine .. and yes, I'm the centerfold! haha. First and only time I'll ever be a centerfold I'm sure.  Here's an image of the article.

That's it for now..

Brian

Hi again,

STILL trying to get caught up with things after a whirlwind few weeks.  After finally getting back home from Cape Town (after a 60 hour traveling nightmare compliments of Delta Airlines), I left 12 hours later to fly to Houston for the NCECA Conference.  Jet lag and traveling exhaustion made for some interesting conversations for the first day or two of NCECA, but otherwise it was a productive conference.  It seems like the days of just casually wandering from gallery to gallery are gone now as I was busy with some NCECA meetings and other commitments.  As some of you know, I was nominated to run for an NCECA Board position this year.  I didn't get elected, but I was happy to have the opportunity to get up in front of people at NCECA and talk about my beliefs in the free and open access to information .. something I think NCECA could improve on!  In any event, after getting back from NCECA, I left again just a couple of days later to drive work to Edinboro University in Pennsylvania for the Ceramics Invitational exhibition there.  I brought two works there, a smaller curling work and a larger one.  Here's an image of the poster in a hall outside the gallery …

Hope to get more images from the show soon, for now, that's it.  Back to work.

Brian 

South Africa.  Tiffany and I just got back from spending 10 days in Cape Town, South Africa to install and show her work in the Infecting the City Art Festival.  it was a super awesome festival – a great mix of visual work, performance, and sound works.  We shot video for the first few days, then she edited and masked the video to fit on the columns of the Slave Lodge in downtown Cape Town.  The logistics of installing the projector on a balcony of one of the most expensive hotels in Cape Town were a little "interesting", but overall, it was a really great experience.  

I did some photographing while there, so I'll be posting some of those images on this site soon.  For now, though, I thought I'd share a handful of my Instagram pics.  The rest are on my Instagram account – check it out if you're an Instagrammer!

Anyway, there are a bunch, so here are just a few.

That's it for now .. Setting a new goal for myself to post more here, so hopefully we'll see more posts!

Brian

Wow, thanks to all those awesome people that supported our Kickstarter campaign, we were able to purchase our tickets to Cape Town, South Africa today!! 

It's such an amazing and humbling experience feeling the support of so many great people – friends, family, peers, and colleagues.  Thanks to them, we're able to partake in this opportunity.  We're both just speechless, really.

Honored and humbled.

Brian H.

Our Kickstarter is on its way!!  As I write this, we are about a week into our campaign.  We're thrilled to already be at 44% of our needed funding, but we still have a long way to go.  So, if you know someone that might be interested in supporting this project (and getting some really cool rewards in the process), please feel free to pass this link on:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/766776675/between-here-and-there-cape-town-south-africa

We are so honored and humbled to have your support .. it really means the world to us!

Thank you soooo much!!

Brian