Interview 2

Good morning from Minot, North Dakota. It’s overcast and a little cool – but lovely on the train. Our overnight had a real camp atmosphere. A couple little girls were just mesmerized by my brothers knitting projects yesterday. The older girl, Alysa, expressed an interest in learning to knit. So, brother Bill had some extra [...]

Hi again, so, yes, I took the train to Chicago this morning. What an elegant way to travel. We passed a wetland just west of Porter, Indiana and I saw a bird that I thought was an egret-or a heron. I have a hard time telling them apart. I bet the artist Kathie Briggs of [...]

Hi all. I am on the train from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Chicago. But the journey does not end there. I have the honor of working with the Friends of the Museum of the Plains Indian as their 2010-2011 Visiting Artist. I’m heading to Montana to get started on a series of portraits of artists of [...]

Hi, I thought we might take a look at some of the upcoming exhibits I will be participating in over the next few months: going on right now through 09/19/10, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Circle of Arts Gallery, Charlevoix, Michigan. This exhibit, curated by Kathie Briggs, is in a lovely town in [...]

Hi, Glad to be back. I have been laid-up for a brief period recuperating from a motorcycle mishap. We are referring to it now as “the incident”. I would not normally show off my legs to just anyone, but since it’s just you and me . . . here is the new hardware that I [...]

I just got back from a joint conference of the Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates. I am a member of both organizations. While this was not the first professional conference for artists I had attended, I thought it was the most useful. Rather than focus on techniques or professional development the focus [...]

Hi everyone, Thank you to all of you who were able to drop by my studio last Saturday. The afternoon was great fun. Also, special thanks to the Log Cabin Quilters and my friend Cindy for the lovely flowers. (I have deftly managed to position them so they are not subject to cat attack.) Among [...]

Here are the final sketches for my next two works. I am working on them simultaneously. The dual processing has always presented challenges for me — I had difficulties keeping pieces for one work separate from the other. It was like throwing two 1000 piece puzzles together in one box and shaking it up before [...]

Maria Elena Kravetz, the owner of a reputable gallery in Cordoba, Argentina, contacted me to see if I was interested in showing my work with her gallery at International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, SOFA West, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now, an opportunity of this magnitude does not normally drop on my doorstep, so [...]

Hope everyone has been enjoying fine weather, health and the joys of the season. Here in Michigan we have about 6 inches of snow-not much by our standards-and about 20 degrees.I spent much of last week in the Chicago area with family and learning the finer points of snow-resist dyeing of fabric. I see this [...]