Getting schooled

How can you feel like you have too much homework when you're not even in school anymore?

Lots of firsts at our house:

• The Boy started his first year of middle school
• TwoBoo started first grade
• I'm no longer driving anyone to a day care center -- for the first time in ten years

Every trip is taking maybe ten minutes more because I keep missing turns. Both schools sent home stacks of paperwork for ME to fill out. And my job, that art thing?

I'm up to my ears in meetings about art. Applications about art exhibitions. Other computer-related stuff about art. Art stuff, but not making art. Which is sometimes part of the job.

Art business consultant Alyson Stanfield has some useful suggestions on how to deal with overwhelm, which I really need to work on this month. So I'm going to spend a long weekend in planning mode... and somehow, making something.

Last chance: spend some time at the Jake

As August winds down, so does the group exhibit at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery (also known as "the Jake). Have you had a chance to slip in and see my work there?

If you haven't, you have seven days left, not counting Monday. And there's a lot to see: the gallery displays three rooms full of work by members of Onyx Arts.

The exhibit closes September 4th. If you take a selfie there, I'll post it on my Facebook page as a thank-you!

Art festi-full: one last note

Before things get too hectic, here's how to find me this weekend: follow the strains of festival music and look for a shredded paper trail.

Kidding!... sort of. Details for Thursday at So Bazaar:

I'll come up for air on Friday, and then on Saturday you'll find me at Fresh Paint:

If you see a piece you like... 

I'd suggest you put a deposit on it to secure it. (My last altered book, "Legendary," sold before I could even add it to my inventory for this weekend.) Hope to see you soon!