The Ranch Cafe
David is one of the head cooks for the Ranch Cafe'. His love of cooking and for The Ranch came through in what he offered us. Although I am not a vegetarian, I appreciated the fact that the vegetarian offerings were as wonderful as the regular main course. David is a former photographer from New Orleans. I heard that he got burnt out on photography and it would seem that he transferred his passions to the kitchen.
I spent every early morning and many cool, late evenings on the cafe porch.
The inside of the cafe is equally inviting.
The Lecture Hall
The Schermer building is next to the cafe and home to an ongoing series of lectures.
The Mixed Media Collage Class
Mark was kind enough to let me take a peak at the beautiful items he made during his two week collage class.
The Metal and Concrete Sculpture Class
These folks started out their session by mixing up nine different batches of concrete, each having some special variation. Some were light, but a bit delicate. Others looked more like aggregates with stuff mixed in. Those would be used decoratively, often sliced and polished. Others were very smooth. Some accepted a limited range of coloring. The people in the class then learned to weld and make wire armatures.
Richard and Justice confer about a design element on the porch outside of the sculpture building.
Justice takes her newly created sculpture outside so that she can begin to ready it for the next stage of artistry.
The Ceramics Buildings
This, the place of hand built clay items, feels like a set from a movie to me. There is whimsy and magic nearly every place you look.
The glazing room is next to that room. I love the way the color samples are displayed.
Across the way you can see the kiln room. It is full of large kilns. I had a wonderful photo of one, but it seems to have corrupted. I hope to reshoot the image when we are back at The Ranch in August.
Attached to the Kiln building is the classroom where my room mate, Olivia, was working with slip. She was making a series of very Art Deco inspired shapes that will become delicate bowls.
The Children's building is at the entrance of the campus. They were working hard to create an amazing float for the July 4th parade.
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