Kentucky Foundation for Women workshop in Morehead!

The Kentucky Foundation For Women has been extremely generous to me through both their Art Meets Activism and Artist Enrichment grants, and Kentucky is very fortunate to have a grant-giving non-profit focusing on the promotion of female/feminist work.

And, they have asked me to be one of several presenters representing "feminist" artists. Which I am. Which isn't seen as an overly popular thing to call yourself currently, but since 1) I consider myself a feminist being that I assume men and women are equally capable of being fully functioning adults; and 2) my artwork (sometimes) can be narcissistic indulgence (or therapy, depending on your perspective) about being of the female persuasion specific to ME: it's probably most likely the case that I am, indeed, a "feminist" artist.

The Kentucky Foundation for Women seminar is being held on Tuesday, February 12 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the Morehead Conference Center.

Working on the next crow piece . . .

Now that the holiday excitement is over, I'm able to get moving on the next piece in the Counted Crows series - Three for a Wedding. The piece is also inspired by a line in an Arcade Fire song ("a house on fire, a rising sea). Actually, I've gotten more work done on it since this photo..... yay for productivity!



Also, the Byzantium workshop is a go - Saturday, May 17. Their web site is: http://www.bigbead.com/. The store images are actually from their old place on King Ave. (when I was @ CCAD - ack!), and they are now on High Street, in the "Garden District" - north of the Short North. The workshop is from 12:15 - 5:15, and it will be my first experience teaching at a retail venue.

Joe Sartor painting is MINE!

Finally, finally got around to getting a fabulous painting by Joe Sartor, Morehead surrealist (as I like to refer to him!)

Here's his web site: http://sartor.myexpose.com

Here's one of his amazing paintings.......

New Crow Images - Decent Ones - and workshop updates

Now that the holiday festivities are over, down to brass tacks . . .

Finally took decent photographs of the two new crow pieces:




There's a serious probability that the workshop on Fiber Valentines @ the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh PA scheduled for Saturday Feb 2 may actually MAKE! Whoo! We'll see . . . check out their web site @ http://www.contemporarycraft.org/

Also, currently working with Byzantium in Columbus OH to work out a workshop possibility in May. I thought this year would be light with workshops, and I'm still angling towards that especially in the summer, but I can't pass up these short ones which are fun and the extra moolah doesn't hurt.