Interview 2

Hi everyone,
Thank you to all of you who were able to drop by my studio last Saturday. The afternoon was great fun. Also, special thanks to the Log Cabin Quilters and my friend Cindy for the lovely flowers. (I have deftly managed to position them so they are not subject to cat attack.)
mong the guests [...]

ere are the final sketches for my next two works. I am working on them simultaneously. The dual processing has always presented challenges for me — I had difficulties keeping pieces for one work separate from the other. It was like throwing two 1000 piece puzzles together in one box and shaking it up before [...]

Maria Elena Kravetz, the owner of a reputable gallery in Cordoba, Argentina, contacted me to see if I was interested in showing my work with her gallery at International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, SOFA West, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now, an opportunity of this magnitude does not normally drop on my doorstep, so [...]

Hope everyone has been enjoying fine weather, health and the joys of the season. Here in Michigan we have about 6 inches of snow-not much by our standards-and about 20 degrees.I spent much of last week in the Chicago area with family and learning the finer points of snow-resist dyeing of fabric. I see this [...]

I ask ya, what is an artist to do when the bottom drops out of the art market? I do have skills that are easily applied to other projects, it’s true. So, now I am putting those skills to a bit more commercially viable use. In addition to completing some works in my Motorcyclist Portrait [...]

Today I am working on my pieces for the exhibit sponsored by the Fiber Artists Coalition. www.fiberartistscoalition.com
The group of fourteen artists proposed a traveling exhibit inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem. As soon as I read VII, I knew what my composition would be. In 1998, not long after we moved to Michigan and ages [...]

Argh!
Due to the inaction of the Michigan House Judiciary Committee, as of September 11th, the closure of the Department of History, Arts and Libraries became official. That means that the body that funds the arts-when there is money-the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, will be transferred from the Department of History, Arts and [...]

Wow, did I really go an entire month without a post here? And still no interview this month? Humm, I have been having way too much fun this summer. I was fortunate enough to have “the nieces” visit this month. We went to the Michigan Fiber Festival and the kids learned rigid heddle weaving. They [...]

I have been trying to get some flesh tones right for some time now. Part of my challenge is managing the dye process. Colors do tend to shift somewhat on silk. The other part of the challenge is my vision of the creation in the first place. Here’s what I’m working on now. A motorcyclist [...]

caption id=”attachment_211″ align=”alignright” width=”288″ caption=”Au Sable Chasm, outside AuSable Forks, New York, about 65 miles south of the Canadian border.”][/caption]I must have looked and acted as if I needed a vacation after the Portfolio went off to the printer. My husband and his father were going on a genealogy research trip to upstate New York [...]