A few weeks ago I ran a giveaway on instagram. The giveaway entry fee was for people to tell me things they’d love to learn from me. I’ll admit it…
Working in a Series
Hanging the Pieces of My Show
Content Warning: This post deals with sexual assault. Skip it if you need to. On Monday, October 23, 2017, my mom and I rolled all 21 pieces of my show…
Art as a Career
Someone asked me the other day on Instagram how I’d made art my career. If you are looking at my Instagram feed or this blog, it certainly looks like art…
Weekly Recap: September 25-October 1, 2017
A lot of yarn posts this week since I’ve been wrapping up my time working on the art show. I needed to switch gears and do something different. This week…
Summer Break
I’ll be taking July off to spend some time with family and to work on my show. I’ll still be posting the Weekly Recaps of the daily work I’m doing…
Summer Reblog Series: Materials Used
As June gets revved up and my show looms closer and closer, I decided to showcase some previous things I’ve written in order to allow me some time to get…
Summer Reblog Series: The Gap
As June gets revved up and my show looms closer and closer, I decided to showcase some previous things I’ve written in order to allow me some time to get…
Summer Reblog Series: Make Something Every Day
As June gets revved up and my show looms closer and closer, I decided to showcase some previous things I’ve written in order to allow me some time to get…
Weekly Recap: May 22-28, 2017
Monday, May 22, 2017 I am loving my spray paint phase! I love the texture and dimension I get from spray paint. Tuesday, May 23, 2017 I peeled some things…
Get Messy Art Journal: Season of Contrast
This past week finished up Season 14 in the Get Messy Art Journal Community*. Get Messy Art Journal is an art journaling program that is a school, art playground, and…
Women I’m Learning From
I’ve been thinking about my influences lately. I started in 2013 with a simple plan to make space for learning and growing as an artist. Along the way I’ve been…
Another Show Update
As I’ve been thinking through how the pieces for my show will work together I decided that they were too big at 12×18″. Envisioning how to edit and present them…
Being a Mom while Being an Artist
This is the last in a series of topics that came from my discussions with The Council of Arty Cleverness. This one was Sharyn’s idea. First of all, I just…
My Upcoming Show: Conversational Sexism
When I started talking with the gallery manager at Lowe Mill last fall about my show, I originally thought I’d do more canvas works in my Modern Icon series since…
How Do I Decide My Work is Finished?
Over the next few Thursdays I’ll be talking about topics that came out of a discussion I had with The Council of Arty Cleverness. They suggested some blog topics and…