Tag: Art

My heart is full after last weekends Open Studios Art Tour. With over 250 visitors, non-stop assistance from my fantastic team of cheerleaders and so much art finding new happy homes, I’m overwhelmed. Thank you to everyone for the continued support of local artists! If you missed out on last weekend, you’ve got one more chance to come by and say hi!

Sat & Sun
Oct 17 & 18
11 – 5
767 Cathedral Dr Aptos
follow the green signs from Aptos Village

need more info about this event:
www.artscouncilsc.org

Come by today & tomorrow from 11-5 for Open Studios 2015!
Free ‘buy art’ stickers & a chance to win my book ‘a relationship with earth’

Follow the green signs from Aptos Village
767 Cathedral Dr
artist #254 in the guide
See you at the studio!

This week is crazy busy at the studio while I get everything ready for Open Studios 2015, but I wanted to share a few teaser shots of what’s going on in the studio. Can’t wait to see y’all this weekend, here are the details:
Sat & Sun 11 – 5 | 767 Cathedral Dr Aptos | Artist #254

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Weighing the Landscape | September 9 – October 11, 2015 | (106) Gallery | Grand Rapids MI
ArtPrize is a “radically open competition” held in Grand Rapids, Michigan for two and a half weeks each fall. This year the Calvin College (106) Gallery presents, “WEIGHING THE LANDSCAPE.” Drawing on the environment for both thematic and formal inspiration, these twelve ArtPrize artists explore and measure connections within the landscape. Whether it is the relationship between strength and fragility, sustainability and wastefulness, light and dark, or growth and decay, each artist addresses the topic in unique ways. As a result, this measuring of opposites brings questions to mind. How does one find beauty in deterioration, see order within chaos, address stewardship amongst change, or understand rigidity within an organic space? These and other questions are at the root of the artistic process and invite the viewer to weigh the landscape in this exhibition. If you are in the Grand Rapids area, visit the gallery at: (106) Gallery and Studio, 106 South Division Ave. Grand Rapids, MI 49503 and register to vote for your favorite piece!

The artists are: Valerie Allen, Al Denyer, Kate Gesel, Yasmin Khalaf, Karen Lemmert & David Naill of MANIFOLD Design, Jeannette MacDougall, Armin Mersmann, Zach Mory, Kimberly Roush, Sam Soet, Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk, and Jenni Ward

We haven’t had these babies in stock for a while but a new batch just arrived!

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Even with all of the gadgets, gizmos and tools you just have to have out there sometimes, you can’t find just what you need and you have to make your own. I’ve seen artists use everything from pool noodles to pipes as they support their work in the wet building stages, but my work needed support in the kiln, which means I needed something that could survive the firing process.

I’ve been firing flanged pieces from my bone series with some good results but I often get a small crack line along the length of the pieces during the glaze firing process. I realized that some more support might be what’s needed to help them survive the firing process with a higher success rate. So I started building some angled clay shapes for the sculptures to rest on. But because the glaze can’t touch anything during the firing, I added short lengths of heavy gauge nichrome wire pins poking out of the clay everywhere. So the glazed piece rests on the pinpoints instead of on the clay support. The result looks like some crazy torture device but so far so good, my new tool appears to have worked its magic. Making the tools to make the art makes artists inventors as well as creators!