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opening reception recap

March 19, 2011 By Administrator

Big huge mega thanks to all the awesome peeps who came out to the opening reception for the SMARTS Arts of the Community II exhibit at Intermedia Arts last night.  I am so grateful and humbled by the sweet compliments on my artwork from many people.  Was told that the curating committee loved my stuff instantly and even checked out my website to see what else I had, so sweet!  David Luke who hung the show (and to whom I owe deep gratitude for giving me prime real estate) said to me “I hope you don’t mind if I describe your work as delicate, funky, weird and science-y.”  My answer: of course not!  That’s exactly how I describe it myself.  Actually haven’t specifically used the word science-y before but two different people said it to me last night and I think it fits.  Too bad it’s not actually a real word.

Me with my artwork at Intermedia Arts

I got to chat a lot with Susan Hensel and we mutually discovered that the two exquisitely drawn graphite male nudes by Donna Dralle are actually of composers Haydn & Handel, which makes me giggle.  Also saw fellow WARM members Jeanne Souldern, Debra Roinestad, Angela Sprunger, and Loretta Bebeau.  Chatted with Eyenga Bokamba a bit, and also reconnected with Leann Johnson when I recognized her across the room and remembered we did the Labor Room project together at Center 4 Independent Artists several years back.  She has a really nice monoprint homage to her father in the show.  And at the end of the evening I met Jeremy Smith and Steven Berg, who run the StevenBe Yarn Garage Workshop which is literally right up the street from where I live and I can’t believe I haven’t been there yet.  Jeremy got me all excited to stop in and find some new yarn and rekindle my knitting projects.  (Who wants me to knit them something?)  I ended up hanging out with them at Moto-i for drinks after and heard about their MN fashion week show April 14th, the proceeds of which will go to aid south minneapolis teen Guadalupe Galeno-Hernandez who was shot and paralyzed last year.  Plus they have a fair trade yarn spinning project in South Africa in the works.  And of course they have a fantastic collaboration fiber installation piece in the SMARTS show, which you should go see if you haven’t already, hint hint.  It’s up through March 30th.

It’s exciting to learn more about the fantastic things going on right in my own neighborhood, some of which I didn’t even know existed.  So much more to explore.  In fact I met two people who live only a few blocks away from me (in addition to the yarn shop).  So to conclude: community, connection, art, energy, neighborhood, yay.  Happy dance.  Feels like it’s gonna be a good year.  I think I’ll go peruse the tweets from the Solutions Twin Cities 4 event, see what I missed.  Hope they post some video for us poor souls who had to miss out.  Also need to make something to submit to the Art 4 Shelter fundraiser coming up at Circa Gallery in May which Eyenga convinced me to get involved in; deadline is April 20th.

A sneak preview of what I’ve got in progress:

working on several small pieces at once

Filed Under: art, crafts Tagged With: community, events, fiber arts, intermedia arts, mnarts, mnfashion, smarts, south minneapolis, stevenbe, women's art registry of minnesota, yarn garage

update on Intermedia show

March 14, 2011 By Administrator

I now have a list of all the artists participating in The Arts of the Community II at Intermedia arts, opening this friday.  I went for a sneak peak on Saturday and it’s a very diverse show with lots of intriguing stuff.

Artists include Barbara Lea, Bouky Labhard, Christopher Anderson, Donna Dralle, Eddie Hamilton, Eyenga Bokamba, Iggy Beerbower, Jane Powers, Jeanne McGee, Jenny Jenkins, Kat Corrigan, Kate Van Cleve, Katie Sherman, Leann Johnson, Lisa Petersson, Megan Moore, Nicole Houff, Pamela Gaard, Robyn Hendrix, Steve Brooks, Maghan Rangitsch, Marcos Montano, Steven Berg, Jessie France, Jeremy Smith and Stephanie Aichinger.

And in case I haven’t drilled it into your heads enough yet:

Opening reception is this Friday, March 18th from 7pm -10pm (I plan to be in attendance for most of the evening, so come check it out and keep me company!)

Here’s the facebook event.

Building Hours are 10am-6pm Monday-Friday and 12-5pm on Saturdays.  Show is put on by the South Minneapolis Arts Business Association and lasts until March 30th.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: events, exhibit, intermedia arts, Minneapolis, mnarts, painting, smarts

march madness

February 28, 2011 By Administrator

The website’s been updated!  Check it. Home page info, resume, portfolio and artist’s statement were all tweaked or added to.

I have had probably the most productive 4-day weekend ever.  And I still have one more day to go.  We got the arranging of things pretty much done today for the Temporality show so tomorrow we have to do a little bit of painting and start hanging things up on the walls.  It’s gonna be a really nice show.  Come see it Friday night!  5-8pm.  I’ve been tweeting and facebooking up a storm for WARM, possibly going slightly mad with multiple personality disorder.  Fun stuff.

I also found out last week that three more of my watercolors were accepted into the SMARTS Arts of the Community II exhibition at Intermedia Arts, which will be up March 11th-30th with an opening reception March 18th from 7-10pm.  So it’s another busy busy March for me, similar to last year.  Love this time of year though, so much going on.  And I’m excited to be showing all new work that’s never been exhibited before.  I so completely adore the three pieces that were chosen for the Intermedia show and can’t wait to see them framed and up on the wall.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: events, intermedia arts, march, Minneapolis, openings, productivity, smarts, upcoming exhibits, visual art, watercolor, women's art registry of minnesota

new work in progress, with a side of something silly

February 2, 2011 By Administrator

Really really in love with this new painting I’m working on.  Based on one of the drawings from my art house coop sketchbook project…

watercolor work in progress

Hoping to have it done in time for the SMARTS Call for artists for the 2nd annual Arts of the Community Exhibition.  I might title it something like “Incubation” or “Incubators” or something incubating-related.  Which makes me think about hatching baby chicks in 6th grade…

Oh gosh, while I am posting and babbling randomly I guess I should put this in to.  I made a silly picture:

SnuffleARTagus

Springboard put this “I <3 Art Because…” sign in their spring workshop flier for people to fill in & post photos of.  I had gotten into a goofy tweet conversation with Springboarder Noah about artimals (cuz in his pic he is an Aartvark…other good ones included the hippopARTamus and the plARTypus).  The workshop flier sat on my art table for several more days, and I couldn’t think of anything that I could say about loving art that would be better than being a SnuffleARTagus.  And the empty paper towel & tp rolls in my recycling were calling to me.  So there you go.  I made a goofy picture.  Somehow I always end up taking weird photos of myself in my bathroom.  I guess the lighting is really good in there.

Incidentally, Noah is teaching all ten of Springboard’s Work of Art workshops this spring, and they are awesome & super helpful so if you are an artist in the Twin Cities wondering what you need to move your career forward I highly recommend that you check them out.  You can buy in bulk and save money!  They are packed full of good info like how to price your artwork, marketing, copyright laws, using social media, etc.  And Noah tells funny weird stories and does strange things like making a really big deal out of not liking strawberries when you bring them to class and then taking a video of himself eating the strawberry and not liking it.  Practical art career guidance + meeting & networking w/other artists + sense of humor = win!

Hmm I did not intend this post to be mostly about Springboard.  I intended it to be about how excited I am about my watercolor painting.  Mleh.  Gonna go eat something and go back to painting now.

Filed Under: art Tagged With: art career, artimals, ladders, minnesota art, mnarts, muppets, painting, professional development, smarts, south minneapolis arts, springboard for the arts, twin cities artists, watercolor

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