All the shows are up and everything looks beautiful!

Mutations is at Foot in the Door.

Here are the images of the postcard invitation for the upcoming Women and Water Rights exhibition at the Katherine Nash gallery at U of MN Regis Center for Art.

I submitted “Mutations” to the Foot in the Door show at the MIA so I now have work in three exhibits at the same time in the upcoming month.

Food in The Door info:

http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=14

Third Thursday: Foot in the Door 4 Premiere

Thursday, February 18, 2010
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I have been adding a lot of events to my Twin Cities Art Events google calendar, including the upcoming events related to Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration at the U of MN. I’m thinking I might actually need to use a vacation day, there’s so much going on surrounding the exhibit! Picking events to add from the twin cities arts scene is like opening a can of worms. I could keep finding more and more and more events to add, but if I do it too much, the calendar wouldn’t be very easy to read. And my eyeballs would start to hurt.

We have the WARM Currents exhibit coinciding at the same time as WWR at Northrup King, and I am coordinating the gallery sitting for it. It’s nice to have something that keeps me busy outside of my “day job.” Keeps me from getting too bored with this cold weather. I was happy to see that we have six WARM artists in the WARM juried show who are also in the Women and Water Rights show. Though I’m torn that Lucy Lippard’s presentation is at the same time as the WARM Currents opening reception. Did Steve Urkle ever perfect that cloning machine of his?

Also coming up is the Foot in the Door exhibit at the MIA sponsored by the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP). Basically, every Minnesota artist who wants to, gets to bring in one piece of art for the show, it just can’t be larger than a cubic foot. It would be pretty idiotic NOT to participate so I’ll have to work on that. One of the smaller drawings that I just got back from Leap of Faith 5 is probably small enough.

I made one and a half (one is unfinished) watercolor cards today to try to get back into the swing of things, now that I finally unburied my drafting table and dug the box with the art stuff back out of the closet. I flipped through my sketchbooks and found a couple of recent drawings with some themes I’d like to play around with some more. Do you ever feel like your goals and to do list become so massive and overwhelming that you end up doing nothing instead? I’ve been feeling that way a lot lately. I’ve been telling myself over and over again: learn more french, go to the Y, bake cookies, draw something, paint something, learn yoga, knit five different projects at once, update your google calendar, go to some art events, get organized at work, stop making to do lists and actually do things! yadda yadda yadda. It kinda makes me just want to lie in bed spacing out. Gotta work on taking things one step at a time, celebrate the small successes, and stop waiting for myself to magically become the perfect woman I envision in my head. Maybe it’s time to schedule the “hanky panky package” one-night-honeymoon at Chambers Hotel that some of our family got us as a surprise Christmas/late wedding gift. I feel like I could use some relaxation and pampering. Now, I am going to resist the urge to let this rambling degenerate into some cliche blabber about the weather, and get ready for bed instead.

Happy New Year and new decade!

I’m happy to say I’m in a better place than I was one year ago:

I have steady employment that feels productive and pays well enough to support me

I gained a lot of momentum with my artwork this year and had work in three group shows, while also getting into two juried shows for 2010 with newer watercolor work

got to visit lots of family and friends

moved back to minneapolis, woo hoo!

started being more active by playing tennis and hiking with Alex, plus we joined the YWCA.

New Years Resolutions: (i’m keeping them simple)

Un-bury my drafting table from November’s unpacking mess and make some new work.

Start going to the gym regularly. Take a yoga class.

Get organized and get rid of clutter.

Have friends over more often.

I was feeling pms-y and crampy at work today and started composing a song about that time of the month to the tune of “let it snow,” that went “let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.” however there is a reason I am not a songwriter, and I didn’t get very far with the lyrics.

Had a good holiday, although I feel like having a staycation to recover from our vacation. It was super fun, but a lot of traveling (flying there, driving to portland, listening to Mom and Dad argue with the GPS which they’ve named Hazel wherever we went in Portland, driving back from portland, and flying home to a foot of snow.) Fortunately, I get a three day weekend thanks to new years day.

I am excited about my mouthwatering menu of fun party food for our “Goodbye” party at work on Monday, celebrating the house’s transition to family treatment. I’m making:

smoked salmon dill pinwheels
crescent-wrapped cranberry brie (with pillsbury recipe creations) with french baguette
tortilla rollups
jam button shortbread cookies
raspberry swirl brownies
fried candy bar won tons

thanks to the pillsbury website for some tasty recipes.

I received news this week that two of my 2009 watercolors, Aquifer and Stones, were accepted into Women and Water

Two of my new watercolor paintings were accepted into our WARM Juried Member show in March, WARM Currents.

Please check out this video that the community at St Stephen’s put together of personal stories from people who will soon be drastically affected by Tim Pawlenty’s elimination of funding for General Assistance Medical Care in Minnesota.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJbQvK5MlvY

Virtually all of the clients I cook for at Incarnation House rely on GAMC.