Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you read this after having expressed love and gratitude for the people you hold dear in your life. Maybe you show love by stuffing them up to the gills with food, by having loud arguments in which you're sure you've won, or by staring at your respective mobile devices with the TV blaring in the background. Maybe you spend some time with them, and then you go somewhere else to make sure others have a warm and safe holiday. However you celebrate the holiday. I hope it's a good one for you and yours.
Studio visit: up close and personal with my art
When you invite new friends to come over, you hope they feel comfortable in your space. So you clean up in a frenzy (or is that just me?), drape something over what can't be moved...
...then cross your fingers. That was me early this week: I hosted my first studio visit for some people who are interested in my work. Studio visits are, or can be, a big deal. They usually mean one of the following:
- The visitor is considering exhibiting multiple pieces of your work, or
- The visitor is considering buying multiple pieces of your work, possibly right then and there.
Either way, they want to see it in person.
And the visit went amazingly well: one visitor compared my washboard-mounted altered books to work by assemblage artist Betye Saar. Dizzyingly high praise.
My washboard-mounted altered books, completed earlier this year. ©Lisa Myers Bulmash
I can't say much more about the visit, but I can tell you this: I'm going to spend the next 13 months making A LOT of work. I promise to keep showing you what I can. Are you ready to follow the mystery as it unfolds?
Art classes: working on the "Basics"
Thank goodness the weather's rainy and blustery: it makes heading inside for an art class much more inviting!
Ever made a collage? Or used a masking pen to create designs on your collage? Try it out during "Collage Basics with Photos" at the Cole Art Studio. We'll use photocopies of favorite photos to breathe new life into familiar images. Details:
Registration is open now. Please sign up at Cole Gallery and join us!