Showing up for the Muse
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Blog about loss and memory of time seen through art, art history, acrylic paintings and studio practice. Watching time go by with a painting a day and showing others where to look.
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
For my fellow art lovers:
I am ready to redesign my art website and want to make sure I am creating art that resonates with you.Wwould you mind answering these two questions? It would mean the world to me.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7CRP5ZB
If you prefer to message me instead, here are the questions:
1. When it comes to purchasing small and medium sized paintings of iconic subjects meant to help you feel at home or satisfy the need to escape, what is your biggest challenge or frustration?
2. What is the general process you go through when fi ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
Hey friends!
Mark your calendars and drop in next Thursday evening to a zoom gathering of my latest workshop, “Producing an Art Series with an Accountability Coach”, participant’s culminating show. For six weeks this winter, through the sponsorship of Arts-Midhudson, I worked as an accountability coach for artists seeking to develop a series of work. Every Tuesday evening we would check in with each other, give feedback and celebrate the progress.
See link below to RSVP:
https://www.artsmidhudson.org/artist-talk
The artists who participated are from ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
I was here. I am here. But much of it feels a blur. We had open studios over two weekends, and family. With 20 other #arteastdutchess creatives we opened our spaces and invited people to explore and see the world a bit like we do. We invited my brother's daughter Natalie to exhibit, Michael's daughter Kylie to read her published poetry (the Fever Poems), and my sister Gwen arrived from France to read from her book.
wolf paintings in the barn
Pa (julian), Michael and Me- with art clinic barn in the background
Invite to the Author reading Saturday the 16th
My w ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
I met this autumn with a tinge of grief. The Swiss semester, where I worked last year, was in full swing and I missed it, even though I’d decided to stay home. In the last 26 years there have only been 3 or 4 Septembers that I wasn’t setting up my classroom. I love being a teacher and matching my energy to the fresh minds of the younger generation. So as the school buses ran up the street and the air got crisp with flavors of summer crops, I was free falling.
The Money Tree
In the studio, I was pouring o ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
Expanding the Square
Start with a small back square piece of paper
On the equinox we think about the light, the dark, and the balance of the two opposites. It’s a traditional time to review the past year and note all the events and accomplishments that have lightened up your life. What sort of achievement are you thankful for? How have you grown?
It is also about taking note of the bitter harvest. What were the hard times and what changes did you have to go through? Like I said, it is all about balance!
Students having fun. Check out samples on wall behind them ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
I’m only just recovering from the NECC summer enrichment program. Imagine spending every day making art with kids ages 5-11 and teen interns. It was awesome. One highlight was the week we spent on day hikes with SachemHawkStorm, the chief of the Schaghticoke First Nations. He challenged a lot of our assumptions about the woods and how we approach our food and our history.
My other joy this summer was the opportunity to spend a week in Iowa with my mother, just the two of us, traveling back to her childhood in Des Moines. We traveled even further back in time- visiting the ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
My family is flawed. Because of that, the research into my roots for my art project has often stalled. I write about leaders and pioneers in their fields who are acclaimed for their achievements. Yet with a little searching I find them prejudiced, mysogynist, racist, or thieving. Many harbored opinions that I consider untenable today. My family story, much of it a story of white males, had to be balanced a bit by focus on the strong matriarchs. The women come to light (and literature) in the branch of Americans that wrote books and kept diaries. I want to focus on the brilliant and inspiring F ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
My family is full of creatives, risktakers and influencers, so it is inevitable fodder for a project to go looking for them. In search of the story behind my great grandmother Florence Call Cowles, I am off on a week-long adventure of research and memory-lane type of wanderings.
Florence and Gardner on their Around the World Trip in 1924
The first stop is Des Moines Iowa- the birthplace of my mother- and here I should share that I will be dragging her in tow. It has been since 1994 that we were last in the city. Our plans are to visit the art museum, the newspaper, the health ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
2y ago
Hey there- You know the saying "when it rains it pours"?
So many things have converged and I am proud to say that my art has been able to get out of my studio and into the world!
Right now I have works at the Hunt library in Falls Village, NY, at the Hammond Museum in North Salem, NY and at the Kent Library in Kent Lakes, NY! In addition, I was a panelist with 6 other fantastic artists last weekend at the Hammond. We were talking about emotion and creativity. Next weekend I will be hosting a free workshop at the same museum on Collage and Processing Trauma.
T ..read more
Showing up for the Muse
3y ago
Seems like the Covid quarantine days are really behind us. There is so much to do, so much scheduled... that I spend much of my time walking back and forth to the large wall calendar in the kitchen and consulting the scribbles that fill in every nook and cranny of the grid!
Michael Gellatly and part of his 14 foot painting
Last night, after a virtual opening of an Art Queen exhibition I was in, called "Inner Power", Michael and I braved the torrential rains and headed 45 minutes away to Torrington, Ct, the Five Points Art Gallery for an opening of his in the 2021 juried s ..read more