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interested in getting to know SAQA Michigan?

I mentioned a few posts back that I'm very excited about being a co-rep for the Michigan region of SAQA.

One of the things I'm excited about having the opportunity to do is bring members of the state together so we can all get to know each other better.

Lucky for me, I am friends with the Surface Design Association Michigan rep and we got the great idea to bring the two groups together for a picnic!

So if you are in Michigan and would like to socialize with your fellow SAQA members or have been wondering about either group, now's your chance to test drive both organizations to see if you'd like to join. I belong to both and love them dearly, I think you will too.

Here are the details if you are interested in coming:

Susie, the SDA rep, is graciously opening her beautiful home in historic Indian Village in Detroit for the event. Here are the details:

What: Meet and Greet SAQA / SDA picnic

Where: Susie's home
             1731 Seminole St.
             Detroit, MI 48124

When: Sunday June 24 beginning at 2pm

What to bring: Please bring a dish to pass, your favorite beverage and a piece of your artwork to show off your wonderful talents! :)

RSVP: To Lynn at FibraArtysta@earthlink.net

I have room in my car to carpool if a few people are interested in doing that. Just let me know in your RSVP, only three spots.

Please feel free to bring non-SAQA members to check out the groups, we're always looking to welcome new artists into the organization and this would be a wonderful opportunity to introduce them to what we do.

Very excited about this gathering and I do hope that you will attend!!! :)

like a roadmap

I've been talking about the purging and cleaning activities. I've got piles everywhere, ready to be mailed out to some people and others going to a garage sale and some that well, just need to go to the the craft cemetery in the sky.

My first reaction was, "Holy cow, what an incredible amount of junk." But the more times I look through things and I sort them, I realize I'm really tracing back my history.

When I first began in fiber arts, I started with crazy quilting. I remember the ad I got in the mail advertising a brand new magazine that was about to launch called Quilting Arts. All about crazy quilts, I didn't hesitate to subscribe. I still have the premiere issue, its something I decided I wanted to keep because it feels so symbolic.

Then there is the bizarre pile of fusible web I accumulated when I discovered that I could "glue" fabric down with an iron. That was the beginning of art quilting.

I also found one of my first sketchbooks. There is an entry in it that I wrote after going to an IQF. It was kind of an epiphany, here's part of what it said:

I've finally realized I'm not a true art quilter. I walked through those exhibits and stood in awe of these massive, heavily stitched quilts. Those artists carved out faces and scenes in such realism and beauty. Even the abstract pieces had a quality that I know I'll never achieve.


And I'm excited to know this about myself. But what does that make me? Where do I fit in? I wonder if I'll ever answer that question...

I'd spend years trying to find an answer. Its still not fully answered and I know now that that's the way it should be.

So all this stuff. These things that, to someone who isn't an artist, look like an incredible accumulation of things, is so much more. Its all the necessary steps that got me from the first step to where I am now.

I'm happy to be passing them along, sending them on to new homes so that other people can find the excitement I felt when I discovered them for the first time.

What about you? How did you start in fiber arts and is it very different from where you are now?

Fiber 577 Invitational Exhibit

Here's my thing about exhibiting my work: once I decide to start showing, I go after calls for entry like a crack monkey that just downed a case of red bull. I don't know what comes over me but I can't help myself. The only thing that slows me down is my ability to produce enough work to put it everywhere I want it to be.

This year has been no exception. It started with Ragged Layers and has kind of snowballed from there. But in a totally excellent way - I couldn't be happier. And being accepted into shows is always a thrill but when you receive an email inviting your work to visit, well...that's a bright spot in the day that never really seems to fade.

Such is the case with the Fiber 577 Invitational Exhibit:

The fine folks at the Perrysburg Area Arts Council are a fiber loving bunch. Every year they put on a wonderful fiber exhibit and they've decided that they are going to make it an invitational exhibit every other year. 2012 kicks off the first Invitational.

I'm incredibly happy to report that Remnants Collage 13 and Remnants Collage 20 are going to be part of the exhibit.

Remnants Collage 13

Lynn Krawczyk

18" x 18" on canvas

I seem to be completely unable to find a photo of Remnants Collage 20. iPhoto is messing with me. I know I took the photo because see the flyer up above? On the middle set of photos (that aren't two small photos stacked on top of each other), the one on the right is RC 20. (At least I know I did take a photo and I'm not nuts...)

After the exhibit at PAAC closes, the work will travel on to Anglewood Gallery in Grand Rapids, OH from June 10-July 8. (I swear, my art gets out far more then I do.)

I'm so honored to be part of the exhibit and if you are in the area and can stop by and see the show (dates and location are shown on the flyer up above), please do so. They put on a great exhibit and you won't be disappointed!  :)

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the shift

Remnants Collage 17

Lynn Krawczyk

24" x 30" on canvas

I've been talking with a friend about the role art has played in our lives. About how art is a mirror to what is going on in our lives, how it seems to leave us when times are difficult. (But not really, it just steps aside so we can get the business of living out of the way.)

I've not been an artist for a long time, about a dozen years. When I think back to where I started to what I do now, I step back and pause and wonder what will be sitting on my work table in another dozen years.

I can mark major events in my life by the way my art shifts. And each time it did, I had to get to know myself all over again.

It was not easy.

I would walk away from it, unable to face its demands for weeks, even months at a time. I think there is a misconception that to be a good artist, a great artist, you have to live a dream life of producing nothing but perfect art all the time. That your life is a greeting card where everything falls into place simply because you want it to.

Wrong.

Being an artist is damn hard work.

And if you are willing to accept that into your life, you can weather the shifts, pour more of yourself into your pieces, you'll come out the other side with work that speaks to you on a primal level.

That's what I want for my art. If nothing else, I want it to follow my life and reflect what is going on. I want to be connected to it in a way that when something major happens, I can't help but spill it onto the fabric.

Everything about making art is an ebb and flow. Sometimes it will seem as if it just pours out and other times, you'll stand in your studio with a headache building asking the air why you're bothering at all. The hard times produce the good times. There cannot be one without the other. When we struggle with what we want our art to be, that's when we get to know it the best, make it the most honest.

I'm in an upswing period right now. Every time I finish a collage, I sit back and feel a small wave of content exhaustion. I'm putting energy into it, feeding it. And that's how I know I'm getting it right.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that you have to wait for inspiration to make art. Just work. And who cares if it sucks. Doing the bad art means you've crossed off one more thing that you don't like, that you're one step closer to making the work that will sing.

I'll never know exactly how it all works. And I don't think I want to. The dance of changing and examining and being present keeps me tied to the process. Its where I want to be all the time and the constant longing for that has become a way of life. A way of life that I am happy to embrace.

all the art gathered in one place

My website has been a bit sad lately.

I decided that I needed to take the time to get my new work up there and take down the old work. After all, much of what had been up there has been cut up and assimilated into the Remnant Collage series.

Add to it the fact that there are spiffy new pictures taken by the fabulous photographer I found and I couldn't put it off anymore. (Cleaning in my studio and cleaning on my website. Will the cleaning never end??)

Here's an example of one of the lovelies that has been added:

Remnants Collage 12

18" x 18" collage on canvas

$300

There are many smaller pieces as well. If you are inclined, my portfolio is here. Have a gander. See if you can pick out the old work that used to be there. Kind of like a twisted game of Where's Waldo? ;-)

I'm taking another round of items to the photographer in a couple of weeks so I'll be able to replace some of the so-so photos that I've taken that are currently on the site and add in several new things. (Can you tell I'm happy to have found him?)

Feels nice to have it tidy.

unknown names

Since I'm attacking my space in a most ruthless manner, I'm finding treasure. Things I totally forgot I had (kind of makes it feel like Christmas).

I found these:

Its a stack of worn out old blocks I picked up. I was attracted to the circle and text (shocker, I know) and when I came across them, I sat down on the floor and thumbed through them.

The top block is the only one that is embroidered. All the others have names written on them in pencil but they never met thread:

It makes me wonder about who wrote them, who the names belong to. Why is there a group in the middle and then others in the spokes? Are they a family? Are they friends? A church?

Why didn't she finish stitching? She could be like the rest of us and maybe just lost interest. Or was the Queen of UFOs of her time.

Or was it something else? What if she lost them and that's why she stopped? What if she died?

I became suddenly aware that my own work might ask these questions years down the road. I have no idea where it will end up or who will want it or if it will just end up on someone's studio floor being studied.

Its odd to know that pieces of ourselves are out there, ready to be examined years from now...

May Featured Thermofax Screen of the Month

Its that time again - a new Featured Screen of the Month is up in the shop. :)

This month's beauty is from the fabulous Judy Coates Perez. I've long admired Judy's incredible drawings and when she agreed to be one of the artists, I actually did a little squeal.

And her design is just as incredible as I thought it would be:

She calls it Florabunda. Fun, right?

Judy did a great blog post showing different prints and I really fell in love with this one:

photo by Judy Coates Perez

used with permission

The layers over her more delicate imagery are really beautiful. I swooned a little bit. (Okay, a lot...)

Her design is only available for the month of May so if you want one, head on over to the shop and pick one up! Several have been snapped up already so don't miss out! :)

where i stand sunday (the virtual edition)

I've been working hard all weekend (with the windows open so I can hear the birds serenade me while I write), many things going on. One of them was this:





So I'm going to use that up above there as my Where I Stand entry since I'm standing virtually over at that other blog. (Don't look at me that way, its not cheating at all...)

I've been a member of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) for a long time. And now I'm very happy to report that I'm a co-rep for the state of Michigan. Anne Hiemstra is the other co-rep for the mitten state.

As is my habit, I picked on the blog. I love blogs (sure you hadn't noticed) and I want to turn it into a kind of little virtual living room for the SAQA-MI members. Its feeling pretty spiffy now so I'd love it if you'd pop on over and take a look around.

SAQA, if you haven't heard of it, is an organization that is all about showing the love for art quilts. My work, while not an art quilt in the most direct way, still has a place there because its a derivative that grew from that place. Everyone is welcome, no matter where you are in your art journey. We're fiber artists and if that's you, you have a place there.

Lots of lovely artists, wonderful people and just a general sense of community at the national level. My hope is to bring that same feeling to the regional level. Anne and I are talking about how to do that.

If you are a SAQA Michigan member, please follow the blog. Its going to be more active and I'd like to know who you all are (Michigan is a big joint, there are members stashed everywhere).

And if you are a fiber artist, living in Michigan or not, and just want to see what the group is up to, by all means, join the gang. Its not a restrictive blog, its there for everyone to read. While it is focused on SAQA events and regional happenings, its still a good read.

I hope to see you over there! :)

dooley's secret life

A couple of months ago, the fiber art group I belong to - Running with Scissors - had a day retreat. Sadly I couldn't go because a cold was plaguing me and I like to keep my cooties to myself. 

I was particularly bummed out because Kat was teaching a class about the series of quilts she was working on that she called the Secret Life quilts. The quilts depict people or animals acting out their heart's desire. I wanted to do one about Dooley love but since I missed the class and then got insanely busy, I knew in the back of my mind that I'd most likely never get around to it.

Then at one of our monthly meetings, RWS member Johanna brought several Secret Life quilts she had made for her daughters. They were of the family doggies. My eyes lit up and I asked her if she would be interested in doing one about Dooley love. 

She agreed and asked for a photo of my boy. I sent her this one:

And then she asked me what his Secret Life is. I had to think. He's a mischievous little guy. Can't ever really mind his own business. The more I thought about it, I realized that we call him the little supervisor and inspector since he is always nosing around checking things out. I told Johanna that we think he secretly solves crimes for other dogs since he's so good at checking things out.

This is the quilt she made:

I couldn't possibly love it more! I love the Sherlock Holmes feel of the quilt. Johanna hand stitches everything, which just makes her work even more special and dear.

I particularly love that there is nothing in the "LOST" box, he's just that good. :)

Here is a close up:

Super cute, don't you think?

I just had to share, I'm so in love with the piece. Outside of the photo and a couple of sentences, I did nothing to contribute to the design. Johanna dreamed it all up and she captured him perfectly. :)

giveaway winner! (a day late and a dollar short)

Its not Sunday. Or Monday. So I'm late. But better late then never, right? :)

This happy flower square is going to go live with Joy Manoleros! Congrats Joy! Send me your addy at FibraArtysta@earthlink.net

Know that I am busy and half crazy but happy as hell. Blog might be a little quiet this week but its all good - back soon! :)

letting it go...

Like many of us do, I use art to work through things. Hard situations, stressful times. Normally the things I make that are about the darker moments I keep to myself. I did a small series a couple of years ago when I was at an in between time, coming off a hard period but feeling better about the world.

I made the Talk to Me Series.

They have journaling all over them. Really personal stuff. And while I was willing to share it, you'll notice that the photos aren't big enough to read any of what is on there.

Its been feeling odd to me that I want to show them but don't want anyone to get too close. I love the colors and the feel but I still get twitchy if anyone leans in to get a closer look.

I'm buried in deadlines right now but really wanted to take some time to myself to make art. I have two more shows coming up this year and I need to continue to make new work. I couldn't pass up the chance to continue to build new pieces.

I decided to rework the Talk to Me Series. I put them on my print table, grabbed the rotary cutter and just stood there hesitating. I've not blinked at cutting up any of my other work. I've always viewed it as holding onto what I love about it (the stitching, the colors) but these weren't easy.

It represented more, this act of reinventing them. In the end, I decided that it was time to just let it go, let them dissolve into the past and join me in the present.

I sliced one of them up:

 Grabbed a canvas, some black fabric and went to work:

This isn't done yet. I haven't decided yet if I to add more layers or if I want it to be more simplistic and clean. But I'm glad these pieces will be seen yet still mysterious enough to keep their secrets in tact.

How about you? Do you show the art that is personal and about difficult times?

destruct-o box update - now we're cookin'!

 Finally! Destruction is under way! (And no, I did not hit it with a hammer.)

After a few weeks of various types of storms, the box finally broke apart. The green bird that was in the panel that tumbled popped out not far from the box:

I'm going to leave everything where it is and see what happens. Perhaps something interesting now.

The fabric is relatively unchanged:

I think the frog looks rather smug about it, don't you?

spring cleaning giveaway :)

art cloth on canvas

Thermofax screen printed images using Xpandaprint

10"x10"

Lynn Krawczyk

I know today is usually Where I Stand Sunday but my feet aren't standing anywhere at the moment. (A nasty cold has taken me down for the count and made me cancel my plans for the day. Zicam and I are best friends right now...)

So in lieu of the fact that I have no Where I Stand photo, I thought I'd do a giveaway instead. :)

I've been purging and cleaning my studio and spare room because its time to let the items go that I no longer need and will never use. And while this particular item does not fall under that category, I would like for it to go to a home where it is appreciated rather then sitting on a shelf unloved.

This is fabric that I made when I wrote my first article for Quilting Arts on Thermofax Screen Printing. The white/pink swirls are printed with paint but the daisies (printed with this screen), were printed with Xpandaprint. If you've never tried Xpandaprint before, its pretty nifty stuff. Its a high quality puff paint product and I tell ya, I get such a thrill from taking the heat gun to it and watching it expand into cool texture. :)

After I puffed it, I painted it (the Xpandaprint comes in white and black) to give the flowers some pop.

Want a closer look?

Get a good look at the texture of the Xpandaprint:

Cool, huh?

I will say that the photos do not really show how electric the base fabric is, its a really intense magenta. And while I'm still struggling to make friends with pink, I can totally appreciate a good saturated color and fell in love with the vibrancy of it.

So would you like to have it? If you would, here's what you need to do:

Give me your best spring cleaning tip in the comments by Sunday April 29 and you'll be in the running. 

Remember that if you do not have a blog that your name links to that I can contact you through, you need to leave an email address so I can contact you. Anonymous comments without email addresses won't go into the drawing, sorry. And if you don't respond to the email that you won within two weeks, I'll choose a new name.

Happy commenting! :)

an oldie

I've had this piece of fabric in my stash for years now.

Which is really unusual for me because my habit is to print what I need for a project and then use it straight away. It leaves me with a stash of little bits but almost never do I have a yard that I can't bear to tear into.

This is one of those pieces.

Its a surprise every time I come across it because I think "Oh, I just haven't found a use for it yet. I'll cut into it eventually."

But I'm not sure I will. The more times it sits on the print table and gets a little bit of this and a touch of that added to it, I want it to remain as a whole piece.

Its odd how some pieces decide their own fate, isn't it?

where i stand sunday

The night dampens everything, wiping out color and tone, making it bleed into a kind of monochromatic stillness. I stare down through the rectangle holes with a trepidation, knowing the grate will hold me but all the while thinking of the empty air lingering below. The days have been full of deep rain and thunder and the tin sound of the water rushing below echoes in riot against the quiet of the evening.

Where I Stand is an ongoing photo essay examining the different places I spend my life standing. Too often we take for granted the everyday places we spend our lives walking on. The ground we tread on has its own stories to tell.

an audience :)

Observe my supervision for my yard work the other day.

Dooley love likes to be wherever I am but sometimes, all that watching gets tiring and he just needs to take a break. (I especially love the leg dangling over the edge, like it was simply too much work to pull it up underneath him.)

My wesite is a simple guy:  just wants lots of petting and a cookie and a soft couch.

Oh, and if he looks grouchy? He hates the camera. I keep telling him its his own fault that I keep taking pictures - he's too darn cute. :)

Dooley wishes you a happy spring and much relaxing in the shade!

professional vs. amateur

Photographer, that is.

When it became clear that I was going to be making larger pieces for Ragged Layers, I started fretting over the photography side of it.  I do okay (meaning it can pass for a blog photo) shooting my small stuff. I can make it stay put on my design wall and clear up any color skews in photo shop.

But a 36" square? Well, that presented a huge issue.

And since I'm so enamored with the Remnants Collage series, I want good photos. Ones that represent this new body of work that I'm building. I asked a friend if she had any suggestions of who I could take my work to and she directed me to a local photographer, Eric Law.

Took me about a nano second to book an appointment with him. And after receiving back the first batch of photos, I know I'll be visiting him quite often.

This is Remnants Collage 15 when I took a shot of it in-progress. You may think that its leaning on the floor because I was too lazy to properly set up for a good photo, but the reality was going to be that I'd have to take the "good" photo that way too. You can see the effect of yellow lighting in my studio (which in all honesty, never really looks yellow to me until I see it in photos) and just the general obnoxiousness of how hard it was going to be to take a good photo of this:

incredibly tragic photo by me (hurts to look at, doesn't it??)

Now here is the photo that Eric took:

Remnants Collage 15

36" x 36"

Lynn Krawczyk

photo by Eric Law

A wee bit better, right? ;-)  Even lighting, clear detail and hung on a wall. Everything I had hoped for.

The photography issue was reason #451 on my list of why I didn't want to work larger. I can cross that off now. Now I want to keep working big, see how far I can push things, really make myself incredibly insane with trying to tame a giant beast.

Not having to worry about the photography thing anymore is going to free up that hesitation, guess I never really realized it bugged me that much.

Here's another new collage, this photo is also by Eric. (I can't bear to show you the one I took, the yellow strips on it made my camera laugh hysterically and produce an absolute hideous photo):

Remnants Collage 13

18" x 18"

Lynn Krawczyk

photo by Eric Law

I have a strange affection for this collage. I like all of them but for whatever reason, this one makes me smile. :)

I need to update my website, pull down all the old work that isn't relevant anymore (or that has been cut up into collages) and get my current work up there, with larger images. Now that I've got good shots, it'll be cake. :) (Can't quit smiling about it...)

please allow me to introduce you to...

The second installment of my column for Quilting Arts, Replenishing Your Creative Well, is out in the current issue (April/May 2012).

In case you haven't heard, I'm writing a series of articles for them that features different fiber art groups. Its become so very special to me, getting to know all these wonderful artists in depth.

The second article is all about the Art Cloth Network:




These artist focus on art cloth as an art form, seeking to educate the public about it and hanging exhibits of their exquisite work. They are from all over the country and gather in person once a year to discuss plans for the group and new events.

Very talented, very wonderful. Please check out the article to learn more about them and visit them online at their website and their blog.

Enjoy! :) 

quietly recovering

I love doing exhibits. I really do. Although there are healthy doses of freak out time, exhaustion and just plain angst, I've really missed it.

I really pulled back from exhibiting several years ago. It got to a point that I couldn't really afford sending things out of state anymore. Took me a while to realize that I could still show if I focused on my local area (and those within a reasonable driving distance) and so I started getting back into it that way. (For the record? There are still several shows that I would gladly ship to, I've just had to limit the list.)

The current show, Ragged Layers, with work from Jackie and I is the first duo show I've ever done. Which meant instead of one or two pieces, I had to make 15. And it has left my studio in a heap. I looked at it yesterday and thought, "Well, I can clean it or just move." In the end I decided cleaning was cheaper.

I have so many other things that I need / want to do that its time to give it a good whipping back into shape.

It calms me down and gives me time to recoup from big projects to just clean and organize. I've also finally come to peace with the fact that much of what is lingering in my stash needs to find a new home. I will most likely never use most of it so I'm starting piles to sort into sell and donate. Will take me time to get through it all but its a relief.

In my usual delusional way of thinking, I look at it and think I can get everything done in one day. Nope. Not happening. The purging will also help to serve an end goal that's been on my mind for a while. I'd like to empty the room, have it patched and painted and set up in a new configuration. That means needing less things in it and also having a place to put things (which will also drive cleaning the other room that I affectionately refer to as the "warehouse"). So lots of work that will be done in slow stages. Hopefully by the end of this year I'll be ready for that.

In the meantime, I've tidied a few areas. Behold how beautifully organized the thermofax screen collection is:

I found screens lingering in areas of the house that gave me serious pause. (Still not sure how the tiny one of the chickadee ended up in the pantry in the kitchen.) Its clear evidence that thermofax screen printing has become a way of life for me. :)

I cleared off most of my design wall and finished up a sample for a class proposal:

Will let you know if it ends up being a go, am pretty excited about the possibility. :)


And I also unpacked and put out my most recent art acquisition from Linda Marcille:

Its a print of her piece "Signs & Omens". As soon as I saw it, I fell madly in love. The colors, the imagery, the layers...*sigh*. Gorgeous, right? Linda is super talented, be sure to check out her website. I still need to get it a proper frame but couldn't wait to put it out.

The rest of the studio consists of piles. Neat piles, but still piles. I've cleaned/purged/organized so many times that I know I need to do this in small stages or I will render the room useless. And that would be a big problem.

But for now I will tidy and sort and let myself recharge for the next round of work. I have a small solo show coming up in a couple of months and while I anticipate getting work back from my current show, I'd like to make a few new pieces for it.

How about you? How do you like to recover after a big project is done?

where i stand sunday

 Shadows are daydreams trapped for a brief moment, growing in the stillness of the thing casting them, flitting across the solid with a slick nod. I love the shadow time, quiet and thoughtful. No judgement, just being. The tree moves above me in a soft rustle, chastising the wind and in this moment, I feel the ground more fully beneath my feet then I have in some time.

Where I Stand is an ongoing photo essay examining the different places I spend my life standing. Too often we take for granted the everyday places we spend our lives walking on. The ground we tread on has its own stories to tell.  

want a tour of our show? :)

Jackie and I (and many wonderful helpers at the HVAC who we are so grateful to!) spent time today hanging our work for Ragged Layers, our exhibit for the month of April there.

I know the blog has been a bit on the anemic side lately and that's partly because of all the new work that I've been creating for the show. I know I've shown you quite a bit of it but I thought it might be fun to do a little video after everything was up.

When Jackie speaks you need to turn the video up, I shot this with my iPhone and while it is a wonderful thing, its limited in these kind of things. At the very end when I'm showing one of Jackie's pieces and I make the comment "Be sure to pick up a copy so you can see how she works", I'm referring to an upcoming article she has coming out with Quilting Arts. Its a little hard to hear because she was standing behind me.)

Here is the info for the show if you'd like to see it in person:

Ragged Layers Mixed Media Fiber Art Exhibit

artwork by Lynn Krawczyk and Jacqueline Lams

Huron Valley Arts Council

 205 West Livingston Road

Highland, MI 48357

April 4 - April 28, 2012 

Saturday 11am-4pm

 

Wed - Fri  10am-5pm

And if you can't make it, I hope you enjoy the video! :)

what has art taught you?

What has art taught you?

I asked that question on my facebook page and the answers may not be what you would think.

No one talked about a technique or a project or a product. Instead they talked about how art has changed their lives. And it made me smile deeply.

I smiled because that's what art has taught me as well, and its something we all share.

Its taught me more then I could ever imagine:

...that nothing is finished until its finished

...that being different is good

...that we all want to be heard

...that its possible to capture a feeling in a tangible way and save it on fabric and canvas


I don't think I'll ever stop learning either and really, that's the best part of all.

So tell me - what has art taught you?

where i stand sunday & class begins! :)

This rectangle of metal and circuit boards is giving me a gift:

YOU.

I've always regarded the internet with a high degree of affection because I've met people from all over the world that I would have never otherwise known. Its made being an artist broader and richer.

And now I can teach through the internet. What an incredible thing, don't you think?

I know teaching an online class is not a new thing. I know a lot of people are doing it. But this is my first one. And I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to be able to reach out to you this way.

I've been feeling like the posts I've been doing about The Printed Stash haven't fully expressed my joy about teaching this. So I put together a little video that sums up how special this project is to me. I hope that if you are able you will join me, all the details on how to register are in this post.