One of the problems of being creative in a capitali$t society is people always say you could sell that. As an exhibiting member in artists’ co-ops, that has often been music to my ears as I have had an outlet for $tuff I could $ell! It is also appealing from the sense that it is a […]
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reflections…
I spent hours today looking for ‘new work’ to submit to two juried exhibits. It was a fruitless effort which brought up a major pet peeve on this subject. Dated work is something that happens predominantly in the quilt/art quilt world. It doesn’t happen so much, if ever in the fine art world. Galleries seldom, if […]
11, 12 and new…
I recall my grandmother at about my current age telling my 20 yr old self that time passes more quickly the older one gets. At the time I just thought, well, she’s old. Now I get it and I see it everywhere, like on laundry day. Is it really 12 days since I last did […]
where i have been…
Holy Smokes…what happened to March?! I can’t believe it has been over a month since I have blogged. To come up to speed, I continue on with the collaborative series, as I am now designing #7 of the twenty five. I am so enjoying this experience and the ever changing challenges of construction, technique, materials, […]
sometimes my work gets out more than i do…
Last year I was presented with an opportunity to submit work to an international exhibit. Ségolène Diamant-Berger had recently returned home to France after living in Louisiana and was curating an exhibit on the theme of freedom. She had personally invited several members of African-American quilt guilds, one of whom sent me the prospectus. At first I […]
quick and easy…
After struggles with machine stitching the third piece in the collaborative series, I knew I needed a quick and easy project to recharge my zest for free-motion stitching. I also needed two small pieces for fall exhibits of members’ work at the Petaluma Arts Center and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. And yet I was […]
Earth Stories debut…
It’s been so long that I could not share my work for Earth Stories that the exhibit opened and I forgot all about it until I read Facebook posts this morning! Over a year ago 25 international artists were juried by portfolio into the Earth Stories exhibit at Michigan State University Museum. I was honored to […]
REPO rerun…
This month is the annual REPO exhibit fundraiser at Arts Guild of Sonoma. All artist members and invited artists contribute work that is comprised of at least 75% recycled materials. REPO consists of opening/closing receptions with a month long exhibit. The opening exhibit was well attended and the current price of each work is listed on […]
two monkeys down…
It’s now the end of August and I am still hard at work on my two large pieces for the Earth Stories exhibit. I had a trip cancel this week so have taken this as a great opportunity to fill my unscheduled days with studio time. Today I was so successful to that end that […]
new venue for my work…
My work was recently juried into the Arts Guild of Sonoma. This is a 30 year old artists’ cooperative with a gallery just off the plaza in beautiful downtown and historic Sonoma, CA. I could not be more pleased to have a new venue for my work and will be showing this year in June, July, […]
art with no pretty pictures…
Today I took a trek into the city with my sculptor friend Jonna Ramey to ArtMrkt San Francisco at Fort Mason. Her primary motivation was to see what galleries are presenting and I was along for the ride! It was incredibly stimulating and enlightening. I chose to not photograph anything and frankly thought […]
we interrupt this drive…
Yesterday I had a full day in the East Bay. I worked 5 of my co-op hours at ACCI Gallery in Berkeley where I show my work. It was a most rare and unusual chance for me to just unwind, smell the roses, talk to customers & staff and just be. Afterwards I met a good […]
the faster i go the behinder i get…
I hate the lapses between blog posts but in reality who wants to read about my grief process. I continue to put one foot in front of the other and once every so often put same foot down too soon or too late and stumble. Then it takes me about a week to regain my […]
saqa auction…
The annual SAQA auction is off and running and I have been patiently waiting for the reverse auction price to drop so I could purchase two of my most favorite pieces. For the past six years I have been acquiring first one piece, then two, and one year three pieces of two genres of 12″ […]
hitting the road…
This weekend two pieces from my Upheaval series are headed off on an exciting trip around the globe to Corsica, an island off the coast of France for an international invitational exhibit. The exhibit theme “Connexions: California-Corsica is curated and installed by Lisah Horner, executive director of ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, CA, of which I […]
studio time…
What a surprise! Just as I was majorly stressed out I walked into the studio and bliss happened. I designed and finished another abstract landscape piece which I have yet to photograph. And I started a couple of new projects for small sales at ACCI Gallery. Just before Texas I whipped out a […]
what to do with all of it?
When I fetched today’s mail there was a parcel of 20 beautiful postcards for an art quilt exhibit opening next month. I was one of three jurors for this exhibit and so that is why I received a bundle of the postcards. Most every exhibit I have my work in sends me similar postcards. […]
really love the work…
Today we made a leisurely drive up north to remove my work from a co-op gallery I joined six months ago. This gallery has potential for growth but I chose to not stick around to see it as the monthly fees far exceeded my proceeds. As a rule I keep a inventory […]
more upheaval…
I just finished and photographed Upheaval # 9; what I hoped would be the 3rd of four new works designed in August. With just 5 days remaining in the month I am re-assessing that challenge! I am now taking a break to do some ‘housekeeping’ chores of my artistic life. And yet as soon as this one came down I […]
sage wisdom…
It seems to be human nature in this society obsessed with celebrity and plastic surgery to fret about aging body parts. While I generally feel fabulous and live consciously in my broken body, every once in a while life throws me a curve where I begin to obscess about an aging part. For some time […]
