The plan for 2022
[dusts off laptop] Hey! Didja miss me?
I missed you… but I had some serious thinking to do about my blog. Not everyone needs a weekly update, so I’m gonna do a few things differently in 2022.
A crowd adds travel stickers to a paper-mache giraffe at the “Walk the Block” fundraiser in October 2021.
You’ll still hear about the big art news: If you follow me on social media, you know I stayed busy with speaking engagements, commissions and media interviews, in the midst of making new work. I’ll keep updating you as things come up.
But not every week: I’m just going to post about said events and shows as they happen, or are scheduled. So you might hear from me on a Wednesday and a Friday, or maybe just on Tuesday. The best way to get details: sign up for newsletter posts on my home page.
When I work with friends and partners: During the first half of 2022, I get to collaborate on a public art project with old and new friends! I’m also leading collage art workshops at the Kirkland Arts Center, as well as North Seattle College in the spring.
A budding collagist adds glue to her piece during Lisa Myers Bulmash’s 2018 collage workshop
First up is my “Collage, Off AND On the Wall” class. Ask me for details: I’m send them directly to your inbox in the next post. Looking forward to 2022 with you!
Let's spend the Evening together
You heard about the house party, right? The virtual one at Wa Na Wari? We’ll have a live DJ and everything!
Artist Lisa Myers Bulmash, waiting to open her exhibit “Holding Patterns” at Wa Na Wari art gallery
I’d love to hang out with you tomorrow night at the opening reception for my exhibit, “Holding Patterns.” DJ Sureal opens the party at 6pm PST. And Wa Na Wari has made a breakout room where we can talk for a half-hour about my work on display, or just have a super-art-nerdy conversation. Then we can rejoin the DJ for the rest of the party.
Jim Dever and photographer Mark of “Evening” interview Wa Na Wari curator Elisheba Johnson
You can join us via Facebook, or you can visit through Zoom (see the Wa Na Wari website for the virtual keys to the room).
But if you really can’t make it, catch my exhibit on TV: “Evening” plans to feature me and my work at the gallery on Monday night, March 22nd. Then you can brag to your friends on Tuesday about all the fun they missed!
Living in the eternal present
Do you think Albert Einstein unintentionally warned us about how much quarantine sucks, even though he was talking about living in the moment? “Life is a preparation for the future, and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
It sure feels like we’re living in a Never-ending Now. I go to the studio, but it’s all I can do to complete just one task. It wasn’t until this morning that I remembered something due to happen in the future: I’m expecting a new collector to send me the final installment payment for the “Blue-Rare” collage.
I sent the first invoice at the end of December 2019, and I’m immensely grateful for the payments. But right now something else is more important to me: this collage ties me to a past, present and future. Time is moving forward. Glacially, but still moving. So maybe there will be a day when the COVID-19 quarantine ends… maybe?