the love, life & work of Blake Johnson
My sister mentioned to me, way back in the Fall of 2017, that she might want me to make her a jewelry box. Eventually sent me some sketches of what she had been thinking of, and I took those ideas to Sketchup to figure out interior dimensions, and the mechanics of all the moving parts, […]
Back when I was working on the Fisher Hill project I was able to take home a slab from one of the big logs we had on site, and it sat around my shop for a couple years since then. Finally this past summer I was able to get into making something fun and interesting […]
For the past few weeks I have really hunkered down to tackling each part of the studio, sifting through the remnants and debris of past projects and would-be-projects, and our earlier organizational methods, to streamline and consolidate and make cleaner the way we’ve set up and use our space. First up was the paint/finish area […]
Always a fan of experimenting and playing, I took on this project (and this class) as a last-minute thing, and it became a pivotal part of my semester. Funiture Design, taught by Peter Thibault and Judith Hanson, ran alongside the new Furniture Certificate program, a collaboration with the North Bennett Street School, the MassArt portion […]
The Spring 2013 semester was a hard one for me. I was struggling with the drive to make things with my new-found abilities that didn’t feel like “art” to me. Furniture is furniture, and art critique deals with it as such. Most often, furniture falls into itself, it remains clearly a furnishing, not an object […]