BLOGGING FOR SENIORS!

I'm getting into this.

People have responded to my offer of making me offers on my artwork! That's great.

I have donated this piece to Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA. It hangs in the library and has been really well received by all. I'm so happy it found a good home, and to that purpose, I am announcing the following:

Thanks to my ever-lovin' daughter, Jeanette, we have fixed up the loft as a 'quasi-gallery'  showing as much art as the walls can hold!

 I'd like to make art instead of storing it!

To that purpose, I am selling and gifting a LOT of work. Make me offers I can't refuse, even if you think they're ridiculous....I will not find them so. I have an offer for 'Fallen Angel' (website - revolving art on homepage) for about a third of its original price, and am sending 5 pieces to a friend in Puerto Rico for her new offices, as a gift.

The catch is, you have to visit me to be gifted or to buy art at Walmart prices!

This is not only to make me eager to make more art, but to appease Jeanette, who lives in terror of having to dispose of all my materials, art, beads and tons of boxes of  my
'stuff' post-mortem!

So come one and come all.....art only, as I continue to find more venue for my jewelry.
See you soon!

"Reef", a hanging piece installed in the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA. near Boston.  It is hand-dyed silk organza and crepe de chine

It's Been Ages

Now I have a new show, at the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, in Chestnut Hill. The exhibit is called: Caribiana: tropical sights and colors. It will run until August 1 and consists of hanging pieces, wall art and pedestal works.

Artist's talk and reception is on Wed., April 4 from 11:30 am to 1 pm.

I'm curating a fabulous fiber exhibit at the Marblehead Art Association (MAA) in May. Artists, both local and from NY, RI, and NJ will have art on display. Many are members of the wonderful Textile Study Group of New York, an entity that gives art scholarships, as well as providing venues in New York City where their members may show their work.

This show is part of MAA's 90th anniversary festivities.

The work is over, the show was installed and the exhibit finally happened!

There was doubt in my mind whether the kind of work I do would be accepted by the Marblehead Arts' usual attendees. In my mind, Marblehead has always been the quintisential New England town, where I imagine the decor to be traditionally Early American. It follows then, that the accepted choice of artwork would be nautical, landscape or still life, not whispy silk hangings or embroidered pieces.

However, to my surprise, everyone was very complimentary and literally gushed about the show. I was very pleased with my installation, and I think the look of the gallery had a lot to do with the reaction of the people. It wasn't at all what usual art exhibits look like in Marblehead! There was a torso, some vessels, and a table filled with more than a hundred small matchboxes, covered in art paper, and which had artists' sayings in them....these are not in the video due to the popularity of the boxes! People loved them and loved the idea of taking something home with them.

So, take a look at the video (8 minutes) and let me know what you think!