I know, I know...It's about time I updated my site. It's been a while, but now that I have a spiffy new fast cable modem connection, I have no more excuses. Plus, my immediate future is no longer so up in the air (see below), so I'll have time to get back to this "business," as it were.
I am still at the PCL library at UT (going on seven years now), and I'm still teaching art part time (but full time in my heart) at Huntington Surrey high school in Austin (going into my sixth year this fall). The real news is that I'm still in Austin at all. Read on.
I am starting my second year in a very nice (old and kind of run down, but very homestyle) house in "my" neighborhood in Austin. Rent is decent for what I'm getting (garage for a studio, big front yard w/picnic table and some shade). I do not have the luxury of living alone (you have to be rich to live alone in Austin these days), but my roommate, Elizabeth, and I get along quite well. I have a beautiful new kitten ("June Riot" -- I was reading about the race riot that took place on June 1, 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I spent my childhood. A woman who gave birth during the tragedy named her daughter "June Riot." I got the kitten in June, and the story left an indelible impression on me, so I named her June Riot. That, and she riots when she's hungry. Click here for the whole story). Click here to see a picture of me and June.
I have been a little on the inactive side lately. I had an exhibition of new and old work at the beginning of the year at Movements Gallery in downtown Austin. I hope to get some work doe this summer and show sometime at the beginning of next year. No date or location yet, but watch this space.
This is why this site has not bee updated in a year and a half. I have spent the last two years in the undergraduate psychology department at the University of Texas and then applying to graduate programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology for the fall 2000 semester. After sending out 12 applications to schools coast to coast, I ironically (?) end up right where I started: here at UT Austin. I have been accepted into the M.Ed. program in Counselor Education which will hopefully be a stepping stone into their Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology. I have a couple of really good ideas for a thesis that I'm fleshing out now, dealing with the effect of psychotherapy on artists' creative production.
Among other things over the last two years in school, I have conducted a research project on the Web dealing with art and personality, the results of which I hope to make available on this site soon, and I have co-produced a documentary film on mental health care in Austin. A short trailer of the film is available at http://webct.cc.utexas.edu:8900/public/EDP369K/index.html. (Use the word "dummy" for both the login ID and the password.)
This page was last updated On July 11, 2000.
