STUFF VS THE VIRTUAL WORLD Okay, it’s widely known, and I’m happy to admit, that I’m a Luddite in a virtual world. I record appointments in a fake-leather date book. I have an Iphone 4S, but I don’t know how to download apps, and I prefer to memorize my friends’ phone numbers to recording […]
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WORK IN PROGRESS People often ask where art comes from—where artists get their ideas, and how they transmute them into drawings, paintings, sculptures, whatever. Welcome to my Work in Progress blog, where I will share with you where I am right now in my creative process, what’s gestating, where it “comes from,” what I
CLIMATE CHANGE: WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? “2035: A Guide to Living on a Changed Planet” Wintersession Symposium organized by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation Adams House, Harvard University RECAP BY CONFERENCE ATTENDEE LOIS NESBITT, PH.D. , writer, artist/designer and Adams House alumna (1981) Climate change, global warming—hot topics of debate
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THE PROCESS How does a collage come into being? Like all of my work, each collage starts with an idea, which I then transmute into visual form. Some of the process is linear and analytical (the R&D phase, when I’m uploading everything I can find about the issue, cause, concept). For example, in my recent
WHERE THE WILD THINGS. Lois Nesbitt. 2015. 18 x 24. Collage on paper. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently created a list of 185 birds, fish, and animals that may well be extinct soon unless we take active steps to address this tragic scenario. Many of these species were once common
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The Boston Harbor Association: Celebrating 43 years! Lois Nesbitt. 2016. 18×24 collage on paper. Commissioned exclusively for the 2016 Harbor Celebration and Auction, this collage celebrates The Boston Harbor Association’s restoring/creating 50 miles of waterfront walking trails in previously inaccessible or industrialized areas. The upper left (in black and white) reveals the industrial landscape
Harvard University 35th Reunion Tabletop This spring my Harvard University Reunion Committee commissioned me to design tabletop décor for the five-day extravaganza. The task: fresh, engaging, interactive décor, different for each meal, 7 meals over 5 days for 600 guests. Yipes! Oh, and yes, the designs had to be sustainable/zero-carbon footprint and light enough
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