Well, I officially survived my first week of grad school!

This morning I am in the studio, setting up my workspace and starting on a project for my Color class. We drew numbers for our desks during the first day of orientation, and I chose a location that, while farther away from the windows (natural light=bonus!), puts me in a row of other three-year students. I seem to be the earliest early bird to the studio in the few days I've been here - arriving at 9am this morning nabbed me a great free parking spot out in front of the building!

I've been to two of the four classes I'll have this semester, and I already have tons of projects to work on. All of my fellow classmates are amazing, thankfully, and we've already formed a cohesive little unit (there are eight of us in the three year track).

We met up at the RISD Museum last night to attend the opening of Wunderground, which included, among other things, a collection of several thousand art, music, and event posters made during the last ten years in Providence. The show was mind boggling simply for the sheer volume of posters you could look at, not to mention the artistry and craft that went into each one. They were plastered on every available vertical surface, much like you'd have found them in their original form. We did get a good introduction to the bizarre antics that are common at this school: We'd been up in the gallery for about an hour when the sounds of drums started echoing in. Then an entire marching band - dressed up in costumes as devils, monkeys, and various forms of the undead - came dancing through, followed by a throng of dancing art patrons. They stopped in each room and played various songs, and the whole gallery erupted in singing, dancing, and shouting. I tried to get a picture of it for you all, but sadly my camera phone wasn't up to the task. I did find some photos of the opening on flickr, though: