Interview 2

Hello everyone, Probably just my brother reading this now as I have been so lax about posting. Other than trying to heal bones in my foot – yes, more broken bones- I am still enmeshed in creating pieces for the Blackfeet Portrait Project. We have gotten a contract for the exhibit from the Hockaday Museum [...]

Hello again, Today we have the pleasure of having Diane Nunez and Martha Warshaw in the booth with us. Diane has recently become a professional artist member of SAQA.

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Friday at the Festival. I am here in the SAQA booth with Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Nysha Nelson, Michele Ellis Bell having a great time meeting lots of traditional and art quilters including Jackie Skarritt from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jackie reports she was accepted into the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts West Michigan Area [...]

Hello from the International Quilt Festival in Cincinnati! It’s warm and wonderful here compared to Michigan. The grass and shrubs are green, the trees are starting to bud out, the birds are singing – oh, wait – no, that was me going 72 in a 55 . . . SAQA exhibits are up @ IQF [...]

I’m finally done with my last Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. Portfolio. I’ve been working on this project with SAQA for seven years. When I took over, the Portfolio was a wire-bound book we had to collate ourselves from pages provided by each artist. Dominie Nash (www.dominienash.com) worked on the Portfolio for 8 years before [...]

Ok, so by now I have a list of about 25 Blackfeet artists and I am looking for contact information. I was really surprised to find that many of these artists do not have their own websites and the information I could find was not leading me where I needed to go. This made tracking [...]

When we left off yesterday, I was talking with David Dragonfly, the Acting Curator of the Museum of the Plains Indian. He was discussing developing a support system to assist me in creating the Blackfeet artist portrait series. Since I am not a registered (or unregistered for that matter) Native American, I can not receive [...]

Perhaps by now you have heard the news that I’m the Visiting Artist for the Friends of the Museum of the Plains Indian for 2010-2011. I will be creating a traveling exhibit and many portraits of Blackfeet artists. What we really have not talked about was how this came about. I wish I could take [...]

So, this is the Museum here. It looks incredibly governmental from the outside, as you would expect as it is a part of the Department of the Interior. There are some interesting sculpture outside near some pick-nick tables in the front of to the side of this image but most of the art works are [...]

My time as Visiting Artist in Montana is really going fast. The people I have met have been fabulous, as has the scenery. I have been staying in cabins in East Glacier, Montana about 12 miles south of Browning. Let’s see, the first night I stayed in East Glacier Motel and Cabins, right across the [...]