When Donations lend a A Step Up

Seems like part of being a Maker/Artist is fielding auction donation requests of work. I find myself saying no to many requests and yes to just a few. I say yes when the organization is in alignment with my mission.
Recently, I was asked by a fledgling school, A Step Up Academy, to donate a piece of work for their first auction event. This time it was easy to say, YES. The auction is to fund the newly established Scholarship Fund and expand the program.

Shield

Sterling Silver

Size 6.5

hollow form construction

Photograph, John Carlano

 

Hopefully, you feel inspired to say, "Yes" and attend the auction, bid on a piece online, or consider donating to an organization in which you believe.

Spring

Spring has brought many things forth though the hives are empty of bees. I found this amazing poem Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Wilner and missed the bees even more. Still looking for bees to fill the hives.

A Common Name

Happy to share a little trove or two of treasure... The Nooks and crannies! are installed in unlikely places that one may discover only if one allows the eyes to wander off the path. Wish I could have had this stumbling occur onsite rather than the internet.

There is even a treasure map!

Enjoy.

Faculty Exhibit

Tonight (6 to 9pm) is the opening reception for the faculty exhibit at the Mainline Art Center. The show runs from today through October 8th, 2012.


https://www.mainlineart.org/pdf/general/Postcard.pdf

https://www.mainlineart.org/event_detail.php?id=114

Listen

cold frame

Start seeds! Order beekeeping equipment. Store winter coats. Stop sighing. Start smiling.

Relief

After so many weeks of hearing the tread of the roofers over my head we are officially water tight! We are moving into interior territory.......so exciting! There will be some removal of expired materials and some additional planning before any building takes place, but I can now cross one massive line item off the list of things to do. A make shift studio has been added to the list. One off and one on.

wonderings

Wondering what may arise from my boxes of tools besides tools? To hold them in my hands, to become reacquainted, to make new marks and leave old ones behind. The way the handle of each hammer will sit just so in my palm. The leverage from each pair of pliers re-discovered. My saw, oh, my saw.....for this there are no words and I am left wondering a little longer.

hums

I find myself moving words around inside my mouth, vibrations in my brain, as I hear myself speak. I am noticing how my response to my own work is in words, in "hums" as A. A. Milne described for Winnie the Pooh. Notes and hums for myself. Pages covered in words that caught my attention, caused me to stop, pausing to capture them for later digestion and contemplation. Groups of words as drawings and sketches for work to be, with a simple line or curve to indicate the movement of the piece.

Lucky me.

It is kind of funny.....how my work seems to direct itself at this point. I started making jewelry when I was almost fifteen sort of on a suggestion and a whim. Who would have guessed that almost twenty seven years later (pay no attention to the equation or the answer) I would continue to find excitement in the medium? The knowledge that is embedded in my body and brain is boggling and yet I have really just begun as there is always something else to discover while I work. Yes, I am lucky.

definition

Check that off the list! Lose posting before posting. Okay, Done. Check!

While sounding redundant to only myself.....

How I will use this tool......post favorite tools, must have supplies, in the moment influences, life long influences, ideas, sketches, works in progress, finished pieces, work of collegues, studio environment, opportunities to show and anything else which seems important to fix into memory.

testing?

A place to collect my thoughts about what I make.