what happens when I hang out with other artists

Arturo Sandoval came in yesterday to jury the summer exhibition. This is what we did after jurying and before wine . . . .

Get Crafty Commune and Potluck! - Tuesday April 3!

Get Crafty Commune and Potluck!
Food, crafty fun, and good times!

Bring a project (or not!), a dish or beverage to share, and friends!

Tuesday, April 3, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Directions: 1067 Mocabee Creek (go out Christy Creek, 32 S 'bout 5-6 miles, after the intersection of 3318), turn left on Brinegar (spelling varies....), follow this road up the ridge and down about 3-4 miles, turn right on Mocabee Creek (right after a severe left turn with a white house on the right). Follow Mocabee about 2-3 miles and the farm is on the right - white house with green metal roof and a few outbuilding (it's immediately after a big pole bard on your right, and you'll go down a steep 'lil hill and there you are!).

More info, call us (Dusty, Jennifer, & Jason) @ 606.286.9022 or e-mail me.

Hope y'all can make it!

Another break in the great Rejection String of 2007!

The very nice lady from LARK BOOKS called and they want to include one of my pieces in an upcoming book called Quilting With Beads. Of course, the Sexpot Icons were a pinch too risqué, so I am (gladly) making a new piece for them (like I told my b-f, it's time to remove the porn, I suppose). Hoorah!

I am so so pleased about this. One of my big goals for 06-07 was to get published and I've been very lucky, with the ArtForum mention, the Lexington H-L review and now this.

It gives me a little more motivation to get those exhibition proposals out.

People have been coming out of the woodwork with jurying/panel freelance work lately.

And, a bunch of people from Cincinnati in the arts (or that worked with me @ art places in Cinci) have been contacting me. Not that I've been taking this as a sign I need to move there........

Back from Spring Break!

The Monday back from Spring Break is always a hoot! But it was worth it. Besides hanging out in Columbus (there's a good retrospective of Glenn Ligon @ the Wexner Center - and their book shop is AMAZING!), I went to NYC as a driver of a 14 passenger van in and out of Manhattan on a student trip. Saw so much amazing art and had a great friend to escort me about the various museums (someone who knows my tastes in art and fun, no less!).

Here's me at the Round Table ala Dorothy Parker & friends......



Had to go back to St. Marks Book Shop - a fab bookstore I wandered into back in the CCAD days....



Of course, where I go on Spring Break is a winter wonderland.........

It can't be true.............

My seemingly endless string of rejections may, just maybe, be over!

Just got notification that I got one piece (All About Eve) into the Huntington Art Museum in WV "280" exhibition. 600+ pieces were submitted and 87 were picked. The opening is May 5. So, will probably attend the opening and head afterwards to Stonewall, where there's usually a great drag show every weekend.

Geez, that was a dry spell. But, I also wasn't trying very hard after awhile b/c I was getting pissy about throwing away $25 - $30 a pop per submission.......

Update: work etc

The high school show is up - hoorah!

I sent in another submission this week, so now I have two exhibition submission proposals (for individual works, juried exhibitions), four exhibition proposals re: Cotton Candy Bunny Ears Meets Mr. Death - booked for Miami April 2008!), a submission to Lark Books in Asheville (we'll see about that . . .) . . . and a grant submission about to go out.

It has to go out. I'll be @ work this weekend anyways (with midterms, MSU gallery stuff, et al - the weekends just become workends, really. BUT - the flexible job schedule is a v v v good thing, esp when someone is trying to cultivate a long distance relationship!).

I'll be in NYC next week (gasp!) as an MSU faculty escort. Primarily, my responsibility is to drive a passenger van from Morehead to Manhattan. And yes, in Manhattan as well. A friend who works as an upper level arts administrator in the city is going to shepherd me about town, and a nice pert is getting into all the art thangs for FREE. Gotta love it. Plus I plan on going to the Village b/c I just got my check for teaching the workshop @ the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft and I plan on spending it.

Off to go to a meeting with my friend John, a history prof here. He brings in great people like Howard Zinn, and sometimes I help. Below is a pic of John and I with Nick Clooney (we brought him in with lots of help from Dale Greer - prof of comm - and Rebecca McGuiness - our super events manager)