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.
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