PNA Winter Festival: inspirations and distractions

I'm getting off to a slow but promising start getting ready for the PNA Winter Festival in December. Take a look at my inspiration for a pair of collage portraits brewing in my mind:

Trouble is, this is also the time of year for lots of get-togethers I'm going to have to bow out of: kids' birthday parties, grown-people hang time... it's not fair! I need a clone! (And as soon as I finish getting ready for the PNA show I'll get right on the cloning plans...)

How do you handle the distractions and demands for your attention when you're getting ready for a show? Let me know in the comments below or on Facebook.

PNA Winter Festival: Be careful what you wish for...

I can barely believe what a wonderful week I'm having: is this payback for a timely bribe I paid or something? Because I found out I've been chosen as an artist vendor for this year's PNA Winter Festival & Crafts Fair!

Tons of people shop for holiday gifts over a two-day period, so this juried festival and fair are kind of a big deal... more than 100 art and craft vendors, plus live entertainment...

Sales help support several neighborhood projects, including an art gallery, food programs for the underserved, and pre-school child care. The event is big enough for the organizers to sell temporary sales licenses for out-of-town vendors who travel to the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle from Portland and elsewhere.

I learned a lot just from observing the event in 2012. More to come about this year's festival... but in the meantime, if you'll be in Seattle save these dates on your calendar:

Saturday, December 7th

Sunday, December 8th

Gotta go... this art inventory won't build itself!

Artist bio

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

*A/NT Gallery, "9th Annual Onyx Fine Arts Collective Exhibit," Seattle, WA, Sept. 2013
*Mountlake Terrace Library, "Lisa Myers Bulmash: Every Family's Secrets" (solo exhibition), Mountlake Terrace, WA, May 2013
*Seattle City Hall Gallery, "A Wider View," Seattle, WA, March-April 2013.
*34th Annual Arts of the Terrace, Mountlake Terrace, WA Sept.-Oct. 2012.
*Brass Screw Confederacy steampunk festival, Port Townsend, WA, June 2012
*Fraker/Scott Gallery (now Hanson Scott Gallery), "ICON," Seattle, WA, Sept. 2011.
*Schack Art Center, "Biennial Juried Art Show," Everett, WA, July-Aug. 2011
*Lynnwood Arts Commission Gallery, "It's Not Easy Being Green," Lynnwood, WA Sept.-Nov. 2010
climate/gallery, "Artful Scriptorium," Long Island City, NY, April 2010
*Edmonds Art Walks, Feb. 2010, Oct. 2010

AWARDS

First prize (9th Annual Onyx Fine Arts Collective Exhibit)
Poster artist ("A Wider View")
Liquitex Merit award (Arts of the Terrace 2012)
Golden Art Supplies Award (ICON 2011)

SELECTED BODIES OF WORK

Tell Me a Story, Mommy, assemblages and artist book, ongoing
If Wishes Were Horses, dimensional canvas & assemblage, 2010
Someday, artist book, 2008
Altered Dollhouses, assemblages, 2006

PUBLICATIONS - CONTRIBUTING ARTIST

• "The Week As Art" online calendar series (July 22-28, 2012), CreateMixedMedia.com
• Destination Creativity: The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat, North Light Books (2011)
• Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages, Quarry Books (2010)
• Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art, Quarry Books (2009) 

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE

• "Podcast with Lisa Myers Bulmash & Aimee Myers Dolich," interview with Ricë Freeman-Zachery, Notes from the Voodoo Cafe blog http://voodoonotes.blogspot.com/2010/10/podcast-with-lisa-myers-bulmash-aimee.html 
• “Sultan Library... Dolled Up,” Everett Herald, March 14, 2010
• “Local artist chosen for postal art book,” by Pat Ratliff, Edmonds Beacon, Nov. 19, 2009