Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is it air compressor AND sandblaster maintenance day today?!?! Wow, so lucky, both dust and sludge. Love it when that lines up for me 💫 000
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds." shout it from the rooftops, @profgabriele.com & @vox-magica.bsky.social! www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...liberalcurrents.comReligion, Humanities, and the Public GoodThe right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home. 16326
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The flow meter on my argon regulator blew on the first day I’ve been able to actually sit down and weld sculpture in weeks. Deeply pissed that it’s happened on a Saturday. 000
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisSean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 22/08/2026I’ll admit I’m a special kind of sicko for journalism about water usage in the west, but it’s crazy to me how the Colorado remains this big eNigMa to this day when its limitations have been well understood for a longgg time 76413
Reposted by Sculptor Chrisgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Never forget the Luddites, one of the most powerful organized labor resistance groups in history, who attacked machines because employers were using mechanization to deskill their trades, depress wages, and eliminate jobs. Now their name is used as an insult instead of a call to action. 16711211
Reposted by Sculptor Chrisc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026How your email finds me. 5050131180
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisKathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026American media's obsession with elite colleges that educate a tiny fraction of the country makes sense when you understand it's the underpinning of our class system (which we pretend we don't have). 17723137
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Creativity isn’t something you are or are not born with (or have happen to you spontaneously). It’s a skill set that you build, develop, and strengthen with use. 2174
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you." 04216
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Spent some time at a small forge in Missouri- a nice 2 week residency that gave me access to forges and power hammers, and enameling for both copper and cast iron. I went with more parts than plans, left with 2 sculptures built and lots of bits to play with. Ran an aluminum casting workshop, too! 061
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026And here’s my latest install in Bella Vista Arkansas- this one (Number 114) is all fabricated and cast aluminum. The central column has lived through a few incarnations before arriving here. 030
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I posted prelim shots, but never the installed work. Here she is, Number 113 in the series, in downtown Springfield, MO. She’ll be up on site for the year. 020
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong 6070191614
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisBess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them. 1647219
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Gearing up to go places! Prepping this cast iron and steel sculpture to travel for install. 100
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisAlex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4nbcnews.comTexas' Big Bend braces for border wall in national park, worrying local Republicans and DemocratsLocals say the rugged land is enough of a barrier and they're concerned about the impact on the environment and homeowners as the Department of Homeland Security forges ahead. 21404301
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 07/02/2026So this. “The so-called “inefficiencies” of the higher-education sector are…the essence of the experience. It is what faculty, students, parents, and alumni most appreciate about higher education and its transformative potential…” Summary 🧵 1/chronicle.com 1169
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026And Oklahoma just murdered it’s Regional public university system. The second executive order signed today pushes for 90 credit hour undergraduate degrees and ties faculty employment to student job placement and wages after graduation. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...insidehighered.comTenure Eliminated at Oklahoma CollegesRegional and community college professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. 021
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Well, last night was a nice night. Had an opening in Tulsa, 3 person show with work exploring connections to land, space, and time. I showed from my new bodies of work, so considerably less steel and iron than usual. Still present, still work about work, but with natural materials and found media. 030
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisShane Anderson 🏳️🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it! 8589654142
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Higher education, if done right, will transform you into a LIFELONG learner. I am curious about so many things because my curiosity was cultivated in college. A BA/BS is only the beginning. You should be reading, visiting museums, going to concerts, debating and discussing things for LIFE. 734048
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisDr. Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social · 20/11/2023It's about that time of year again.... 016439
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2025The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public ServiceA proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work. 2914731287
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Installed number 106 from my Biomechanical Evolution series, an outdoor sculpture, on 3 year loan yesterday- 2 cast iron columns and fabricated steel. She seems happy in her new temporary environment. 0112
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Art historian weighing in to say instead of using AI to make sh*t up about Hopper's work, you could instead look at the actual sketches he made for a painting like Nighthawks—freely available online—& use your own brain to get real insight into his artistic process whitney.org/collection/w... 6412115
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real. -Baldwin 216257
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I wonder how much it would cost to pay teachers and other frontline academics properly, and hire assistants for them as well And would that amount be greater than the total amount being spent to stuff AI down everyone's throat in the hope of "saving money" and "maximizing profit" 911427
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisHrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I love that @sarahebond.bsky.social points out that the tech and crypto bros can’t read history books without erasing queerness, which is everywhere in the ancient world.hyperallergic.comWhy Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors. 04412
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/07/2025The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are. 19951214
Reposted by Sculptor Chrisgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025put your toluene and dichloromethane-fed corn in your maga-branded instant pot and REJOICE for you are an american goddamn citizen 34820
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.newyorker.comIn Defense of DespairThe feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so. 711543455
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Outdoor sculpture rotation- moved from Sculpture Walk Springfield in Missouri to Bella Vista, Arkansas. All fabricated aluminum. Me for scale. I still like this piece. 030
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 04/05/2025It’s turtle-dodging season on the roads around here. 010
Reposted by Sculptor Chrislizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 02/05/2025we need to start making some things socially unacceptable again, maybe if we start small we can work our way back up. it is unacceptable to throw litter. absolutely no exceptions whatsoever. unacceptable 15943107
Reposted by Sculptor Chrisjag @i-am-j.ag · 28/04/2025The Trumpists were never against "elites." They were only ever against the idea that expertise and authority are built on study, practice and impact, instead of bloodline, divine right, or intrinsic merit. They see themselves as fundamentally better than other people and need others to see it too. 426266
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I was notified that I got tenure yesterday, and my students made me this. This is better than the official letter. 030
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 22/04/2025New iron casting exhumed from her bonded sand mold this weekend. Cast at the National Conference for Cast Iron Art and Process, poured off my students’ competition furnace. This was made by direct carving into the mold waste from a cast iron skillet mold, and I’m so pleased it. 051
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisEmily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The kids are alright. (A great defense of #ArtHistory and counterpart to the STEM-heavy defenses of education.)thenation.comWe Can’t Give Up on Arts EducationArt history, once a staple in every college humanities curriculum, is now seen as elitist and futile. With Donald Trump back in the White House, the arts are more at risk than ever. 1296
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisParis Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.arstechnica.comAI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study saysCJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. 12045972431
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/01/2025This goes back to the thing of: it's massively helpful to do something you suck at. To experience the experience of not being good at something, starting it from scratch, struggling to improve at it over a long time. People who don't do this, tend to suck shit. 10745164
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this. 8378542006
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 06/03/2025The ACLU is suing the NEA for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first major legal challenge to controversial policy changes the agency has enacted since President Donald Trump took office.hyperallergic.comACLU Sues NEA for Enforcing Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ+ MandateThe suit argues that the federal art funding agency's new grant requirement violates the First Amendment in what may be the first major legal challenge to the controversial policy changes. 18020
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Folks, this isn't complicated! Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment! There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here! 1671135
Reposted by Sculptor ChrisLouis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately. 442877588
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Snow day sculpture time. New additions to my current large work in progress. Cast iron and fabricated steel. 051
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Holy fuck Oklahoma public schools. Holy fucking shit what the fuck. 020
Reposted by Sculptor Chrisjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2025i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them 1402527707543
Sculptor Chris @sculptorchris.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Some new work in progress. New sculpture with scavenged tire and steel. And some cast wax hedge apples from an Osage orange tree. 031