Spring 2004

Madonna Ready to Go

After months of being at the studio, the Blessed Virgin, or the Madonna as some are want to call her, is ready for stone. The benefactor and some other representatives from Our Lady of Mercy made the trek up to Frederick for final inspections on the 14th of February. They gave me an enthusiastic "thumbs up" and the next step was to load her up and send her to Baltimore in order to be cast in plaster. The stone from Carrara, Italy is waiting patiently in New Jersey. I plan to bring the cast of the Virgin to the carver's studio sometime this week or next. We are aiming for the Feast of the Assumption in August as a possible celebration and dedication of the piece.Now we are ready to begin St. Joseph. He is currently a humanoid armature surrounded by piles of clay. I anticipate having a model in this week to launch the figure. (Pictured below: How many sculptors does it take to load a four-hundre pound Virgin into a truck?)

Sarah at Hood College

Since November, Sarah has been working as the interim Coordinator of Visual Resources at Hood College's slide library for the Art History and Archeology department. The job has official been published externally and she has an interview on St.Patrick's Day. May the Luck o' the Irish be with her!In addition to working at Hood College, she has enrolled in the Master's program with an aim to pursue Medieval Studies. This semester she is taking a course on Dante and Giotto, which just so happens to be taught by the editors of the Cambridge Companion to Giotto.