I have a large number of big announcements here so
brevity would probably be best... but these brief summaries below are in no way
reflective of how excited I am about each!
First and foremost, on Mon Sept 23rd at sunset in the front
yard of our farm I married my best friend, a man I've been with since January
of 2004. I will be taking his name but
professionally I will still be "DBA" (doing business as) "Morgen
Kilbourn". As we are both practical
types we had a short honeymoon at a local state park, and I hope that
absolutely nothing else changes! :D It's been a great 9.75 years so far and I'm
looking forward to many many more equally wonderful decades with him! :)
Second big announcement:
on Sept 14th I was elected to the American Academy of Equine Art's board
as the Dean of Sculpture! This is such a tremendous honor but also an equally
weighty responsibility. For those not
familiar with the Academy, (AAEA), one of their stated goals is that "
AAEA serves to educate and encourage a broad awareness and appreciation of
contemporary equine art as a specific and distinctively worthy segment of fine
art in America". Many commercial
and model horse sculptors have had their work featured in past AAEA shows, this
isn't surprising to me as often a well done sculpture can be appealing in many
mediums and venues. At any rate, I would
like to take a bit more time to compose a more thorough outline of some of my
goals to bring into the roles of helping to oversee the shows and implementing
some old and new teaching venues. I
also hope to bring some new technology ideas to the table and help in small
ways with the website as well. I will
be doing another workshop in the spring, this time I believe it will be held in
the Kentucky Horse Park. Details are
being worked out on that and also will be forthcoming in the next month or so! For now you can see an updated list of all
board members and a short biographical of the newly elected president here; http://myemail.constantcontact.com/AAEA-Elections-.html?soid=1109152397904&aid=ntNUyZFBdG4
Speaking of upcoming engagements: next weekend (Oct 7th) I will be a guest
judge at Laura Behning's 26th annual (wow huh!!!) SouthCon show in Covington
GA. Then
on November 2-3, 2013 I'll be a judge in my old stopping grounds of New
England at the Region X Regional Championships.
Lastly, my little Andalusian mini now has a name: "Pixel"... I loved this name the
moment I saw it! Thank you to Jordan B
(please contact me Jordan if you see this!) for the suggestion... there were so
many great ideas and my list of possibles kept growing and growing, most were
Spanish in origin. However I wanted something
unique that grabbed me and embodied "tiny" too, which this did right
off the bat for me. Anyhow, back to
working on him at the moment! I'm hoping
to be wrapped up in a few weeks here!
Wishing everyone a lively fall as well! All the best!!!
-Morgen
Kilbourn Studios
4 comments:
Congrats on the appointment, marriage and especially judging at TRXC. I can't wait to see you! Larry
Ever so many congratulations! No wonder I was thinking of you... A beautiful life. I like Pixel; it has an x, just like Maxixe.
Congratulations Morgen and Best Wishes to both of you!
And congrats to Jordan with "Pixel". :-)
Looking forward to "Q" ;-)
Congrats! On everything! You know it took me a while to realize what happened lol then I scared everyone in the house xD thank you Morgan!
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