Here I am, Here's what's on. I'm pretty sure all my classes have openings if you're in H and looking for something to do! visit www.quilts.com#368, Wed, 4-5pm, $8Lecture: Nurturing Creative Kids (and Grandkids)#411, Thurs, all day, $83Workshop: Rainbow Prints with Water-Soluble Crayons#540 Friday Sampler, 10-noon, $30Demo: Zapped (almost) Instant Silk Scarves#605 Friday 6-9Workshop: The Sensory Alphabet, $43#749 Sat. 10-noon, Mixed Media Miscellany, $30Demo: Rainbow Prints w/Wat... Read Full Story

  Just the photos for now. I just lost my entire post. Check back later if you want to actually know more about my studio. I am at a conference and hoping to learn more about photoshop today.                 What do I love about my studio? Space, space, space. Space to teach (see the flyer to download on the sidebar). My old art cabinet (the drawers) that I have hauled around for 40 years. Collections and space to explore. The view outside t... Read Full Story

Ran across this online invitation today, and I thought it would be fun to participate.You might want to, too. Be Part of Our Online Open Studios EventThe theme of the Fall 2009 issue of Studios is Open Studios, so we're kicking it off with a virtual tour, and you're invited to participate. Here’s how:Step 1.  Take pictures and/or video of your studio. Maybe your studio is a large, dedicated space or maybe it’s just a corner of the dining room. It doesn’t matter—... Read Full Story

I have had my third artist profile published in Quilting Arts Magazine this month -- it's about Cathy Kleeman and deals primarily with her right-brain/left brain balancing act as an artist. I've enjoyed talking to the artists whom I've interviewed for the  past three issues -- and the good news is that I'll have an article about my "rainbow" prints with water color crayons and polymer in an upcoming article, the first writing I've done for QA that will be about my own work! But, since ... Read Full Story

Detail, Eve Leaves, 2009 In your work. One of the principle differences I see between "beginners" and seasoned artists is the willingness to go far enough with an idea, a material, a vision, a technique. It's a fact of cognitive psychology that we humans have a interesting condition for learning. We need to have a certain degree of familiarity, safety. And we have to have something that pushes us into new territory, a little risky feeling, an edge of the unknown, a bit of discomfort -- it's c... Read Full Story

Bus and street reflections, St. Petersburg SPACE is one of big time favorites.  I work from and within spaces whether I am working on an art quilt, art cloth or, wearing one of my other hats, as a museum and exhibit designer.  As a textile artist, I like working with unusual spaces, and often my work is shaped or irregular, simply because that seems much more interesting to me than a rectangle or square. It may be one of the reasons I like textile arts in general -- the spacial use ... Read Full Story

I was late scheduling my September workshop, From Scribble to Symbol, Personal Mark-Making, and now I need at least a couple of more people here for it to be fun (and profitable) for me and everyone participating. So for those who sign up for this workshop (including those who have already registered), pay for the September workshop before Sept. 20, and I'll give you a certificate worth one-half off the next workshop/retreat you sign up for here at El Cielo -- that's an $80 value. This offer... Read Full Story

Sometime around midnight, somewhere in the Baltic SeaPerhaps the most stunning and interesting photographs from my recent travels in Scandinavia were those with strong LIGHT content -- not only because photography is all about light, but because the quality of those 20 plus hour days of daylight were so potently active as to our psychic relationship to the space and time. Daytime has a much more expansive meaning when the sun "goes down" at about 11:30 pm and rises at 3 am, and truely, it nev... Read Full Story

Carved type from the V&A, London Now that business is posted (if you missed the latest on the workshop front, either download or go back a day for details) I want to continue my posts of photos from the summer's wonderful journey through Scandinavia. I'm posting these by Sensory Alphabet category --just for fun, and because this blog serves me as a kind of collection jar for memorie, studio actions, future ideas and playdates with ideas. So today's idea is LINE. Here are some of the photo... Read Full Story

  Finally, the Fall-Winter planning is done -- it's taken me a long time to get my thoughts straight and then to plan an all-new series of workshops. I've been running repeats of some favorites during the past season, so it seemed time to develop a new group of inventive weekends. The problem with that is, that for all the new toys and tricks and materials that we artists (especially we quilt art/fiber art/mixed media artists) are bombarded with, there are really only so many with substa... Read Full Story