Can you help me find my studio?
I'm starting to feel like my studio is a far-off land I'm trying to get to, but all the flights there have been delayed indefinitely.
Thank goodness for Fresh Paint's requirement that you either demo or make art.
That's how I got started on three altered books. Here's where I left off on one:
Visitors to my Fresh Paint festival booth examine a book I altered before their eyes.
More details soon... I gotta catch that plane to Studio Land.
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!