Art Selected for Haiti Fundraiser in Delaware

I am pleased to announce that one of my art pieces will be sold at auction during The Links, Incorporated Wilmington Delaware Chapter's Silent Auction Fundraiser called "The Art of Haiti" on Saturday, June 5, 2010. This event will be held at the Delaware Art Museum. I will be a special guest. Please see the invitation etc. If you are in the area, I would love to meet you there!

SAVE THE DATE: Feminine Identity Exhibition, September 1- October 29, 2010

Huntington Community Center, Bowie, Maryland



I am in the process of planning my second two-woman, art exhibition with Sharon J. Burton of Gemini Visions Studio, entitled "Feminine Identity" which is scheduled for September 1-October 29th at Huntington Community Center in Bowie, Maryland. I am in the process of preparing my next mixed media assemblage art doll series to be a part of that exhibition. I will share more details closer to the opening!

Arts Advocacy in the District of Columbia!

I thought I would share with you the need to be involved in advocacy efforts to retain and expand arts opportunities and funding in the District of Columbia. I am sharing this message from from Ron Bettman of DC Advocacy for the Arts via FACEBOOK:

"Dear Advocates:

The arts took a huge hit in last year’s budget – far larger by percentage than most city agencies. On April 1st the Mayor released his draft FY 2011 budget, proposing an additional 12% cut from last year's reduced funding levels.

What can you do about this?

Sign up to testify at the budget hearing for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and at the hearing speak up about how important support for the arts is to your work, your business, your neighborhood, your children, and this city. To sign up to testify contact Antonio Brentini at 727-6683 or e-mail sbrentini@dccouncil.us. The budget hearing occurs Wednesday, April 21st from 2pm at 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. Room 412.

If you’d like help preparing your testimony, you can look on our website for information and examples, and/or attend our public meeting April 14th, 9:30-10:45am at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. Southeast, Washington, DC (two blocks from Eastern Market metro.) We get as a community what we’re willing to fight for. Please sign up to testify today. Check here for more information.

Reminders:

National Arts Advocacy Day is April 12th and 13th, 2010. Participating is a great way to meet like-minded colleagues, and make a difference. If you have not yet registered do so today, here.

If you can’t take the time off from work, but would like to be a part of National Arts Advocacy Day, you can attend the Hanks Lecture, this year given by The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina and founder of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. The Hanks Lecture is free, but tickets are required. To get your tickets register here"

SAVE THE DATE: August 7, 2010 Workshop On Mixed Media Art Dolls/ Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum!

I am happy to announce that I have been accepted into the Community Arts Series with East of the River Artists through the Ward 7 Arts Collaborative to conduct a mixed media doll workshop at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum on Saturday, August 7, 2010, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, in Southeast Washington, DC. The workshop will be designed to combine history of traditional doll making techniques and create a personal doll. I will post more details including registration later this summer!

Inspiration Please No. 2: Getting Back to Art for Arts Sake!

Bought this beautiful yarn from And Sew It Goes in Savage, Maryland. Oh the trouble I can get into with this!


Check out the beginnings of a mixed media assemblage I am working on!


Working through my materials to create a large mixed media art doll piece.

Hello all! Sorry I have not blogged in a minute. Just wanted to share with you my foolings around in the art studio. I am in the process of getting some new work done. Mostly at this time, I am working on my mixed media art dolls for some shows later this year. I don't know about you but sometimes I get what I call creativity block. I have been on a block for several months trying to get my mojo back. I think it is slowly coming but I don't know. I just was excited to find some beautiful yarn at a quilting shop at in the Savage Mill in Savage, Maryland called And Sew It Goes. This yarn and vibrant colors jump started me into thinking of some cool ideas for some mixed media art dolls.

At this time, I am purposely not applying for any new shows and such. I feel like I want to go deeper with my art and emerge next year with some really cool stuff. Oh that does not mean that I will not be in any shows this year, I am just not focusing my work to compete with any other artists at this time. Recently while talking with fellow studio artist there emerged this treadmill theme that we felt we were both on: creating art in a rush to be able to participate in shows just to be in them. We found that we were creating art without meaning. Just fitting a theme. This artist made a profound statement about his mission is to "get back to art for art sake." I truly believe this as well. We both agreed that art and the process for doing it should be an enjoyable experience.

So I am in a cocoon waiting for the moment the butterfly will arise and fly through the sky in all its beautiful splendor

Happy Easter!