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I am honored to be one of twenty women artists who will participate in A K  Mimi Allin‘s No-No Girls performance piece at Seattle Art Museum this evening.  The event is part of the opening ceremony for the incredibly exciting and important Elles: Pomidou show which opens tomorrow at SAM. Directly from  Marisa C. Sánchez, Associate Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art – SAM: “Elles: Pompidou is a landmark…

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Well, I turned around and found fall outside my door.  Spring was just here – right here! – fat with  time and good light to work on all those upcoming projects.  Those “upcoming” summer projects – the classes to create and teach, the school to set up, the house guests to make room for and enjoy, the ton of rocks to felt and arrange,…

k a i r o s

This coming Friday morning I am heading to Smoke Farm in Arlington, WA.  I will assemble dozens upon dozens of scarlet stones into a snaky sketch on a cobbled jetty.  I collected the stones (with tremendous help from Scott Schuldt – thank you!) over three visits this summer.  I dragged them home, felted them into their bright, new merino skins and cannot wait to share them…

tie one on

I have had amazing experiences teaching/facilitating at Gage Academy this summer.  I normally work with very young people and have enjoyed engaging with older kids who identify as artists and bring lots of experience of their own to the studio. The first workshop was a weeklong class in Kinetic Sculpture.  In the mornings I had middle school aged kids and after lunch high schoolers….

e s s e n t i a l

When I think about shells and the sea, farms and alleys don’t generally spring to mind – but today I drew with some shells in the alley behind my house and I thought about the farm.  I thought about how the shells are like the rocks I am collecting from the farm.  I thought about “place” and “placement” and collecting and carrying places inside…

s p r i n g

It’s been five months since I started going to the farm.  I began this yearlong adventure last November with nothing specific in mind – no predetermined objective other than just being at the farm and noticing.  I wanted to start out simply being there and to see what organically bubbled up and make work around that.  I thought that was what I had been…

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Excellent Company

This past Saturday was one of those rare and miraculous NW winter days where the weather and light join forces to show off their most enchanting stuff.  The morning was crisp and white frosty but unfolded into a short-sleeve, shoes off affair that everyone in Seattle is still talking about days later.  It was a perfect day to be at the farm. I had…

Of the Eorthe

I returned from Eorthe this afternoon a very happy woman.  I got to spend the better part of an afternoon, an entire night and a morning on the farm with Carrie, Ken, neighbor Bill and the animals. I originally planned on pitching my tent in the sheep/llama barn, but Carrie said I could bunk in the greenhouse so I took her up on it….