If you need a sweet gift for your sweetie today, there are lots of local shops that are carrying Art Hearts!
Swing into The Homeless Garden Project Downtown Store, The Santa Cruz Art League, Norrie’s Gifts at the UCSC Arboretum, The Bonny Doon Garden Company in the westside New Leaf, The Garden Company on Mission St or Ace’s Flowers in Aptos! Support your local businesses and pick out a handmade ceramic heart for the loves in your life!
Happy & Healthy Heart Day!
They are available at the Homeless Garden Project downtown store AND they will be available this weekend at the studio for the Valentine’s PopUp Saturday 12 – 6.
Pick one up for your sweetheart!
Join Us:
Earth Art Studio
2523 C Mission St Santa Cruz CA
Saturday February 10th from 12 – 6
Artists:
Nora Dougherty with work.shop.- a mobile gallery | metaphoric jewelry. quality stick and stones.
Kachina Schoos of Field Notes Farm & Studio | artisanal handmade soaps. all natural- all the time.
Jenni Ward of Earth Art Studio | ceramic sculpture for the home & heart.
make a valentine, toast marshmallows by the fire, join us!
Mission Industrial Art Studios
2523 C Mission St
westside of Santa Cruz, just off Swift St.
Hey Guess What?!?
It’s FREE SHIPPING FEBRUARY!!!
Use offer code lovefreeshipping at check out all month long for free shipping on all artwork in the online shop. This only happens once a year, so pick out something for your sweetie or yourself and the shipping’s on me!
Offer is only good online, US only from Feb 1 – 28th 2018
Pajaro Valley Arts Council’s annual fundraiser exhibit, Take Aways: Art to Go opens January 17 with a reception on January 21st from 2-4pm. The exhibit runs until March 4th and showcases local artists work all priced under $250. When you buy a piece from this show, you take it with you and the artist replaces it with a new work. I’ll be participating with work from Nest and Bone Series, so if you’ve wanted to add one of these pieces to your collection, now is the time!
Take Aways: Art to Go
Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery
37 Sudden St Watsonville CA
January 17th – March 4th
Opening Reception January 21st 2 – 4pm
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I’m sorry that there were no posts on ‘the dirt’ last week, I really would of loved to of shared in real time with you the new work I’m making, a new video I posted and a reminder about the awesome event I participated in this past weekend (and don’t worry, I’ll still share those things!) but my website was completely shut down for 5 days. I spent a good amount of those 5 days online with tech support, frantic with all the emails that kept bouncing and patiently holding off on pressing send on my applications for shows. These are the times when I wish the only part of my job was the one I’m really good at- having clay in my hands and that dealing with all the other aspects of running an art business were someone else’s responsibilities.
It was also a lesson in how dependent I am on my website and when its down and you’re told that you may need to have a judge sign off on paperwork to prove that you are the owner of your site, it’s pretty daunting. There was a moment that I thought it would be down for months, which is pretty much death to a small business. I’ll spare you the dramatic and traumatic details but in the end through a series on back-ass ways and strangely enough a knowledgable and capable tech who recovered an email address that’s been defunct for over two years, I was able with the click of a mouse get my site back up again. I generally take things in stride but this time, tears of woe turned to tears of joy in an instant.
So, if you tried to contact me last week via email or you tried to buy something from the shop or share my work with a friend and you just couldn’t get through…magically, now you can. Thanks for your patience!
photo credit: Crystal Birns