Happy New Year!

 Wishing you ripples of kindness as we embark into the year 2022. Use your power to be kind and care for your community. Happy New Year!

Practice What You Teach

Practice What You Teach opens today, October 1! The awards presentation will be streamed at https://www.facebook.com/ArtCenterVB this evening at 7:00 pm. Juror, Barbara Laws will be presenting awards! 

Barbara Laws is an esteemed art educator, she taught in the Norfolk Public Schools for 42 years at elementary, middle, and high school levels, until her retirement. During that time, she also served for 8 years as an Assistant Principal and an Arts Supervisor for 15 years. She served in many roles in VAEA, including President of VAEA.

If you are attending the VAEA conference later in the month, come to our Educator’s reception on Oct. 16th, 5-7 pm.  The Art Center is also open throughout the conference:  Thurs-Fri, 10 am- 5 pm, Sat. 10 am- 4 pm, and Sunday 12-4 pm.

I am so tickled to have two mixed media pieces in this show. If you are in the Virginia Beach area please stop into the Art Center to enjoy the stellar skills of art teachers! 

14th Annual Artist Teacher Exhibition

 

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!