Oh Money! Money!

 This summer I had the opportunity to participate in an artist residency with the Kolaj Institute. This weekend there is a virtual forum on Zoom discussing our collaborative collage process and how we went about illustrating the text. Please join the fun, it is free but registration is required.  For more information and registration information click here.

Travel Sketchbook

Travel Sketchbook with marbled paper cover and an interior back pocket. Signatures made of watercolor rag paper.

Summer Sketchbook

 

Sketchbook  June 2021

The Sketchbook Project

 

The sketchbook project was a surrealist experiment. This handmade book traveled between 12 participants throughout the span of this spring semester. Each individual had the book for one week to add their own spin on the contents. The recipient each week connected/transitioned the artwork from the previous person. Additionally they wrote the new recipient a friendly note to be slid in between the pages where they would be starting. The end result is an art object representing the students in AVT 668, 2021 spring semester. It brings the most satisfying closure to what has been an unpredictable and challenging semester!

In the Garden with Walt

We were together. I forget the rest. 

                                              Walt Whitman

This afternoon I had the pleasure of photographing a dear friend's pop up wedding in a beautifully lush garden off the beaten path of a busy trail. The lily pads were preparing to catch the rain and the winds were rapidly picking up...passion in the air. Surrounded by the poetry of Walt Whitman, it was the perfect spot for nuptials. 

Telephone

 

                                                           Airborne                            08/2020

A year ago, while in the throws of the pandemic, I was looking to fill my creative bucket when I happened upon an art opportunity on an Art & Opportunities page. It was a call to participate in game of telephone between artists.

Much to my delight I was sent a poem, I See A Darkness, to read and create a visual response. When I was given the poem, I was not given the authors name, which I now know is Calyn Kelly from Eugene Oregon. My artwork would then be sent on to an artist for creative interpretation and so on...

Today, April 10th, the Telephone exhibition is revealed! 900 artists, 493 cities and 72 countries! I am so thrilled to have been a part of this palatial undertaking! Visit the site and enjoy the cacophony of music, poetry, art and dance, creative exuberance that is the result of the Telephone Game! 

The game whispered around the world, Telephone. 

Link Stitch Book

Ode to Spring

Link stitched 6"x8" sketchbook with a marble paper cover (hand marbled by me)

The signatures are composed of Canson pastel paper

The back cover has a pocket to save ephemera

The inside cover has decorative embellishments 

*Created 04/2021