Art, Thoughts and Life
Open studio at Riverscape in downtown Dayton. “About Face: The World of Puppets and Masks” was a lot of fun I will be doing a mask-making workshop at Ottowa State Park in in Cheboygan MI July 26, 27 and 28 from 9-3
Here is video from the Steamroller prints event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSptU-_9ntU
I love exhibiting with the Circus Art Collective I concluded my worry-doll project (and played scrabble in Christina Peyerman’s Out of ConText installation)
photo by Christine Dendy
I’ve been helping sculpt the puppets for this Zoot theater production: http://www.zoottheatrecompany.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86:the-zoot-theatre-company-presents-moby-dick&catid=64:press-releases&Itemid=79
Save the date: April 30th starting at 6:30 p.m. http://www.daytonvisualarts.org/content/auction
This year I will be donating my Stone Woman relief, I hope she goes to a good home.
Can’t come to Dayton? Not to worry, here’s a how-to video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Etbw1zrU4 (thanks to Dan Raridan!)
My recent work “Muncecas Quitapenas” (No Worries) is inspired by Guatemalan worry dolls. The Mayans believed that if you whispered your worries to special dolls at night, when you woke up, the worry dolls would have taken your worries away. My worry dolls are meant to dissipate worry in the making- the idea being that the process of making frees the mind- you write your worry on the paper that makes up the heart and head, then as you wrap/bind, your worries go away. Maybe it will work for you! Photos from my University of Dayton Artist Residency will be up on my website soon. The project will continue during this spring’s Urban Nights when I will be working with the Circus Art Collective at the Side Show.
The Chrysalis Project is going on now! Here is a link with more information: http://daytonvisualarts.org/programs/daybreak2009.html
Fabulous group of young artists!
Here are some photos of the works in progress and the finished manga inspired creatures:
