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#Time to #Draw #DrawingThursday!

What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996) 

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

What’s WORKING and what’s NOT? http://acuitybusiness.com/Portals/164204/images/Stand%20Out-resized-600.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.5 evaluate and defend how 3.5.1 subject matter 3.5.2 symbols are used in art  4.4 evaluate and interpret your art in your time for relationships in 4.4.1 form 4.4.2 context (what might this mean as we look at ALL of the class work?)
  • How does your concentration stand up together as being important?

Looking back at the first half of the week, what major accomplishments have you made that helps you stand out from the rest of the class?

Advanced Drawing:Discussion of Composition and Meaning.

Space – How are you using it? http://fc07.deviantart.net/images/large/indyart/traditional/Struct_Drawing_3_-_Paper_Bags.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • Looking back on the past few days of work, what are you pleased with in the creation of the work? What are area that you are still being challenged with? N: Mid Critique in the Drawing Process.

What did you take from the critique of your work? What did you add to the critique of your classmates work? What did you take away from the work of your classmates? 

Drawing: Color and Shape and MEANING!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/kandinsky/images/several_circles.jpg

Goals:

  •  1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life?

What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and SHAPE in the art you were creating? 

Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.

Morandi and HIS objects… How are you LOOKING at your OBJECTS? http://estaticos03.elmundo.orbyt.es/imagenes/2010/07/15/tu_mundo/1279218563_0.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.1P: Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
  • How do you feel about the ideas you are creating RIGHT NOW? Name 2 things you are a bit uncertain about as it comes to your THUMBNAIL drawings turning into your final drawings.

What are the three best things you are working on with this drawing so far? 

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Thumbnail #Drawings, #DoYouEverFeelLikeAPlasticBag? or a #PaperBag?

What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996) 

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Goals:

  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
  • What images have you made photographs of so far? What images have you yet to make photographs of? Is this taking you long? We are going to learn UPLOADING soon… hope you are READY.

What have been the problems that you had today with the editing of the images? Can you do this on your own? Do we need one more day in the lab to work? FRIDAY…

Advanced Drawing:Discussion of Composition and Meaning.

Ah – The PAPER bag – What does an OPEN bag mean? What does a CLOSED bag mean? What do your bags mean? http://chriseddins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/paperbagstilllife-300×225.jpg AND http://www.micahsparker.com/images/mannequin.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.A: What skills do you feel you are able to be falling back onto as you move into this drawing?

What has been your most successful area of this drawing today? 

Drawing: Color and Shape and MEANING!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

How do you READ these Shapes in your mind? What do they MEAN? http://littleguyintheeye.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/shapes-in-nature.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
  • How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life?

What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and Shape in the art you were creating?

Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.

How about this for Still Life images? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/e3b27-stilllifepottery.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.1P: Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
  • What are THREE types of compositions you can think of that you might want to try and create for your final drawing?

What are the three best things you are working on with this drawing so far? 

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Monday in the #ArtStudio! Let’s get to it.

What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996) 

Agnes Martin…

AP Studio Art: Presentation of OUTSIDE inspired Art!

Let’s talk about (and listen to) the art! http://iupui.mcnrc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jacobson-story-image.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Think about your work from last week… What are you hoping to express and communicate to the WORLD through your art?

What worked in the Crit to help you learn about other’s ideas BASED on the same assignment?

Advanced Drawing: Let’s listen to the AP CLASS!

Goals:

  • Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Think about the AP Student’s experience of using the PHYSICAL elements from outside and using them their work. What are three things you feel would challenge you the most?

What was the most interesting thing you took away from this critique and WHY?

Drawing: CRIT and DONE!

Ask the Art Critic… Huffington Post? What questions might you have? https://claralieu.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/ask-the-art-professor-is-art-education-really-so-popular-in-western-countries/

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Think about last week’s critique… How can you CONTINUE to consider the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES to be a successful and productive member of the oral critique?

What is the ONE THING you are doing to REALLY ADD to the CRITIQUE of your classmates work?

Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.

Last weeks image to end the week with – how is your drawing going to be similar?  http://artamaze.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/11pilepotsinyoung.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are THREE areas in your value scales that are in need of SINCERE Attention today?

Look back on the THREE areas of improvement, how did you do? Choose one and write 3 sentences about the success or failure! TURN in your WORKSHEETS!

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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.@JerrySaltz advice to #Art #Students read by .@fkjorb to HIS #ArtStudents

Thank you Jerry for the Visit - Id love to meet again for the first time.
Thank you Jerry for the Visit – I’d love to meet again for the first time.

Listen to the SAGE words of Advice to Art Students by Art Critic and Writier Jerry Saltz as read by your favorite (or at least top 3) art teacher Frank Korb. PLEASE play for all classes before their individual videos. Thanks.

AP Studio Art: PREPARE for the PRESENTATION on MONDAY! Gallery?

Alice Aycock “Clay #2” – http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/files/2012/05/Aycock.jpg

Goals:

  •  7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • Looking at the work you’ve been creating, what do you need to do in order to not get voted out of the Art Studio? How is your work challenging and innovative?

How does this work offer you the opportunity to thing outside of the normal “art” supplies and “art” ideas?

Advanced Drawing: PAPER BAGS and Watercolor!

Paper Bags 1

Goals:

  • 1.4 create, define, and solve visual challenges using 1.4.1 analysis (breaking up the artwork / subject matter to basic elements) 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges.
  • What skills do you feel you are able to be falling back onto as you move into this drawing?

What has been your most successful are of this drawing today? How are you COMMUNICATING a MESSAGE about your CULTURE or SELF?

Drawing: PLANTS!

Jim Dine Plant Drawing – What are you going to do with YOURS?

Goals:

  •   2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What skill / technique do you feel that you REALLY gained in the last still life drawing? How are you GROWING as an artist SO FAR?

One day drawing – what was successful? What was a fail? These are your SKETCHBOOKS for next week – what can you do to make it BETTER from this point forward?

Studio Art 360: Thumbnails and IDEAS! – VALUE TOO!

May not be just a cylinder, cube and pyramid, but the ideas are in the same vein!

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are THREE things you struggle with when it comes to using VALUE in your drawings that you can focus SINCERE attention on today?

Look back on the THREE areas of improvement, how did you do? Choose one and write 3 sentences about the success or failure!

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

How To Do Everything

How to do Everything Image
How To Do Everything with your chef – Mr. Korb… Listen to the second half of the show to hear Mr. Korb’s Contributuion to the BIG GAME snack dip recipe. Start at 5:55.
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.@JerrySaltz THANKS for the #FAVORITE! New Suggestion for #Today?

Jerry as Andy? I can hardly tell the difference. http://www.scad.edu/sites/default/files/styles/scad_event_732_wide_16-9/public/media/Events/deFINE%20ART/2014/Andy-Saltz-1224.jpg?itok=_zTdIIch

9. “Don’t worry about getting enough sleep. Worry about your work.” Jerry Saltz – Advice for Art Students… HERE

Freshman Open House was a GREAT SUCCESS. Thanks to ALL of you who showed up and shared in the great works that our ART STUDENTS have accomplished. These are the TWO ARTWORKS that the kids from the evening helped produce. SIGN UP and CREATE WORKS LIKE THIS in our classes!

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AP Studio Art: Are you going to get VOTED OFF?

How does the OUTSIDE work with your ideas? The FORCES of nature? – Chris Jordan’s website!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What did you accomplish yesterday? What are you planning on for today and this weekend?

Share with your neighbor the plans and advancements for this and the next piece. 

Advanced Drawing: Photography and PAPER BAGS!

Paper Bags – All about today! What does it say about the world YOU live in?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What did you do yesterday to prepare yourself for the design and execution of this still life / commentary work?

What did you take away from the drawing today? What are you succeeding with?

Drawing: CRIT and EAT!

Let’s CRITIQUE art today!

Goals:

  •  3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Think about yesterday’s critique… How can you CONTINUE to consider the ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES to be a successful and productive member of the oral critique?

How are you falling short of being able to REALLY add to the critique? THIS IS A PART OF YOUR GRADE.

Studio Art 360: Thumbnails and IDEAS! – VALUE TOO!

Ah Morandi! Love his work. How are you setting up your STILL LIFE? Observation is REALLY IMPORTANT!

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Looking at the DRAWING in front of you… what ONE aspect of the drawing are you going to REALLY FOCUS ON today?

What’s your first reaction to DRAWING PENCILS and all they have to offer?

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

How To Do Everything

How to do Everything Image
How To Do Everything with your chef – Mr. Korb… Listen to the second half of the show to hear Mr. Korb’s Contributuion to the BIG GAME snack dip recipe. Start at 5:55.
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#Friday – I will miss you dearly today!

“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.” – Barack Obama, #SOTU 2014

How To Do Everything

How to do Everything Image
How To Do Everything with your chef – Mr. Korb… Listen to the second half of the show to hear Mr. Korb’s Contributuion to the BIG GAME snack dip recipe. Start at 5:55.

AP Studio Art – From the OUTSIDE IN. Nature in your art!

James Turrell – SKY SPACE – Check out the OFFICIAL SITE here.

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • What are your initial thoughts as you try and create a work of art inspired by the outside?

What challenges have you overcome or are you still stimied by after your day of work?

Work of Art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YFJR84/ref=avod_yvl_watch_now

Advanced Drawing: Time to CRIT on MONDAY! – SKETCHBOOK!

TIME TO WORK on the MASTERPIECE SKETCHES!

Goals:

  •  7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • Today – I am gone. You are going to have an opportunity to work on your BIG BOOK OF SKETCHES today. Which drawing from the packet are you focusing on today? Why this one in particular?

What part of your drawing worked out really well for you today? What did you struggle with in your drawing?

Drawing: DRAWING – Think about the MID CRIT and what you can do from here!

A NEW vision of MORANDI! Check it out HERE at MoMA!

Goals:

  •  1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • How have you changed in the process since you have begun? How are you drawing DIFFERENTLY than you did PRIOR to this Drawing?

Have you improved your drawings skills over the past few days?  What is the biggest success you have accomplished this week? Where are you struggling?

Video: Work of Art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003QWZVF8/ref=dv_dp_ep1 Episode 1 – Start at 18:20 and run a few minutes to see a mid-critique. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0bwEX_0GsFXJr9Vg7SqPUgvZc9KjDH5Kr6dhTq8CZE/edit

Studio Art 360: ONE More Day on the construction!

Richard Serra at MoMA – Link HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.2P: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
  • What can you use from the process we went through YESTERDAY to continue to create a CUBE, CYLINDER, and a pyramid?

What was the most difficult part of the FINISHING UP today for YOU?

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#Day2 – How’s that #Art thing going for you?

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Let’s go to it!

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept
  • Using the idea of Art and Fear as your next breadth work – what ideas do you find yourself leaning towards when it comes to the imagery for your next work? Why do you see yourself headed in that direction? How are you going to make the ideas CLEAR and READABLE in your artwork?

What are the challenges from working through an ENTIRE CHAPTER? Explain what your biggest challenges might be about this work.

Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!

http://www.nhsdesigns.com/images/artwork/jean-metzinger_sailboats.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What has been the hardest part of using values for you? Share this with your neighbor and write your struggles in your goals page. Look at the image of Jean Metzinger’s Sailboats… look at it as visually being BALANCED – notice how we took the color out to see it balanced?

What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What are you doing successfully? Where are you struggling? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.

Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!

Still Life SKETCHES and preliminary ideas… how are your ideas coming?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Most young artists work with their FIRST idea and that’s it. What might the benefit be to begin with MORE ideas? When you sketch in your binders / homework… where do you mostly get your ideas from?  How do you define OBSERVATION?

What do you hope to come up with this year in Drawing? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently? 

Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!

Robert Indiana – LOVE: http://whitecubediaries.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/3923768734_6b16394256_z.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What were three challenges you faced as you began with your drawing of a CUBE, CYLINDER, and PYRAMID yesterday?

What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Studio Art 360 easier?

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Welcome to the #2ndSemester! The #ArtStudio is your’s to work in.

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t walk the walk… he MARCHED it!

AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Let’s go to it!

What FEARS do you have? What fears are you going to have when you learn about the project coming up?

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • Art and Fear had a lot to offer. Open the book and look through your chapters… What chapter do you feel you related to the most and WHY?

What chapter did you decide to use for this next piece? What is ONE of the aspects of the theme you feel you will be working through?

Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!

Color and Shape – Let’s practice with PASTELS and COLOR SCHEMES (were going to learn a few more schemes today!) Peter Halley and his artowrk. What’s the dominant color scheme? Is there one?

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • What were your memories of drawing – pair up and discuss. Share with the class memories of drawing class. What are your expectations of the course?

Reflect on what your expectations and anxieties of the class are. Write up your reflection on the Goal Sheet.

Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!

What are you doing with your composition today? How can you ALL work together to develop this idea of a LARGE SCALE STILL LIFE? Drawing Class #2 – sorry – you guys work with what the first class set up BUT – you get a little extra time.

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • What is it that you think about when you think about what IS art? (SHARE WITH FRIEND) What is it you think about when you think about making art?

What are 3 things you found challenging about your first day of drawing out thumbnails?

Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!

How do you remember the idea of FORM? Let’s test your memory with Cubes, Cylinders, and Pyramids! Robert Indiana’s BIO HERE!

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • How do you draw something in 3 dimensions? What are different techniques you know? Sit with your neighbor and BEGIN with a box, a cylinder, a pyramid, and the first letter of your first or last name.

What are 3 things you hope to learn as you complete this course?

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#ContinuousLineContour #Drawings into #Paintings – What can you say about YOURSELF?

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

Feeling overwhelmed? I can relate!

Studio Art 360 – BAS RELIEF SCULPTURE, Collage, Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania

If you are NOT done with your Photography CRITIQUE – Get it FINISHED!

LARGE GROUP Slide Show Project – Let’s SEE it HERE!

FINAL PHOTO CRITIQUE DUE DATE… Tuesday, December 2. I will be grading the critiques before then (2nd hour has been worked through) but NOTHING is in the books until AFTER December 2. If you have made changes to your document AFTER I have commented but BEFORE I enter the grades – NOTIFY COLLABORATORS through your Google Document (under File: EMail Collaborators…).

TEXTURE on a BAS RELIEF Sculpture!

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • What is the PARTICULAR of the social topic – BULLYING – that you and your partner came up with yesterday? Work through the sheets and WEBSITES to help your ideas get developed.
  • CHANGE IN PLANS! We are going to review and take time to work on your PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUES TODAY.
  •  In 3 sentences, please explain what EXECUTION mean to you when it comes to your ARTWORK?

What imagery did you come up with that truly begins to develop the idea of the social commentary on BULLYING? How does it successfully work?

How has taking the time on discussing the critique in more depth helped you (or not helped you) in understanding the ideas of a critique?

 NON-OBJECTIVE (Focus on BULLYING but use this to demonstrate the GATHERING of the textures – MUST BE “realistic” in nature): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ltLnZB4N8wTwxcqF-aepyAdAjKsBYjrYzYP1HgDASvU/edit?usp=sharing

Painting – Demo on SAW and TEST!

NEW PAINTINGS by the WUHS Painting Class – HERE!

Jean Michel Basquiat – Continuous Line Contour Drawing (from a photograph). http://www.artischeaperthantherapy.com/images/Jean%20Michel%20Basquiat%20portrait%20B%20&%20W_opt.jpg

Goals:

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What did you enjoy about the continuous line contour drawing from a few weeks ago?

What was successful about the work you did today?

AP Studio Art – the hallway and HANG YOUR WORK in the CASES and CRITIQUE!

TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT CHAPTER 4 is due in Art and Fear Blog.

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/adventure

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • Where are you with the technology we are using (WordPress, Photoshop, online editing programs, cameras – digital SLR and Cell Phone)? What are the STRUGGLES you are having? How can I help organize and structure the use of technology to make what we do stronger. Where are you in regard to YOUR work?

How much work have you photographed? How much work have you edited? How can I help you in the computer lab?

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#River’sEdgeArtWalk #Art in #Waterford – #HighSchool Art #Gallery

Waterford Union High School’s Parent Teacher Conferences were Thursday and Friday and the NEW ART GALLERY had its first REAL gallery opening! Well, the doors were open as the parents and students walked through the front door for conferences. TONIGHT however the gallery will be staffed and visitors will be visiting. The Third Annual River’s Edge Art Walk is underway Friday night from 5 – 9pm in Historic Downtown Waterford, WI. 27 (or so) artists will be sharing their inspired works with the community of Southeastern WI. Come and join us all and see the hard work the student artists of Waterford Union High School (as well as the art teachers – your’s truly included) have brought together.

  • Frank Korb, Mixed Media – Thai-Italiana Restaurant
  • Lisa Dukowitz, Photography – Marty’s Banquet Hall
  • Brett Roberts, Ceramics – Riverside Chiropractic
  • Waterford High School Students – Waterford High School Gallery (Door #1)
  • For More Information visit Absolutely Waterford’s Website – HERE

We look forward to seeing you!