Open Studio March 5

Last chance to catch me on the East coast!!!

Saturday, March 5 · 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Boston Center for the Arts

Artist Studios Building 539 Tremont Street

Christy Georg's current work, Nautical Body, is inspired by the sea. She uses her exhaustive research of maritime history, culture and techniques, as well as her first-hand sailing experience, as inspiration for her artwork. During her Artist Residency, Christy will continue this theme by creating a large illustrative map that charts the evolution of the Boston Harbor from 1776 to the present. Furthermore, her map will incorporate personal stories with historical events, both of which will be given equal importance on her map.

Harbor map pics

news!

Exciting potential!

First, I'm a finalist for the Arctic Circle residency. Oh, boy! I've been excited about this since the first expedition in October '09... will find out soon if I made the cut, but financing is my biggest hurdle.

(hence....) I applied for a few teaching professorships recently.

And, I had an interview with School of the Art Institute of Chicago last week. I think it went well.

Also had a call from Carnegie Mellon.

Hmm. What will become of my adventure-seeking starving artist self this fall? My guts tell me IT'S GONNA BE A BIG YEAR, BABY! BIG! That further enforced by discovering that we just pushed into the Chinese new year (*note, I'm famous for my annual Chinese New Year Dumpling Feast but was unable to abide due to my quasi-homelessness) and guess what year it is? MINE. Ha ha! The bunny.

Righto. So, hopefully I won't die on the Pacific Crest Trail, eh? I'm getting psyched up and scared by reading about past adventurers. The Cactus Eaters by Dan White, and Skywalker- Highs and Lows on the PCT. Really good stuff! I've got the mettle. Um, right?

progress and pic of Boston "maps"

In case you missed the premise:

Christy Georg's current work, Nautical Body, is inspired by the sea. She uses her exhaustive research of maritime history, culture and techniques, as well as her first-hand sailing experience, as inspiration for her artwork. During her Artist Residency, Christy will continue this theme by creating a large illustrative map that charts the evolution of the Boston Harbor from 1776 to the present. Furthermore, her map will incorporate personal stories with historical events, both of which will be given equal importance on her map.

I'm making a huge map of boston harbor. On it, I make...'thought bubbles' illustrating an event at a particular location. Some are historical disasters like the Molasses explosion, the Tea Party, etc. Some are contemporary histories, like where I learned to sail and say... where my buddy Steve caught his first or biggest lobster. Or where he lost one of his outboard motors, it fell off!

So maybe i have a drawing of a lobster maybe in a lobster pot, with a ruler and an oldschool ribbon banner saying "Steve's biggest catch!" Or an illustration of an outboard with a pic of Steve shrugging or throwing his hands up.

You get the idea? All past events have equal weight here, and I want to bring humor into it.

This shipyard built the fastest clipper ship to make the passage between New York and San Francisco, and held that record over 100 years until the 1980's! McKay also built the USS Constitution. The shipyard was on Border St. in East Boston
tunnel at Jeffries Point in East Boston (Maverick Square)