I was honored to be invited as a guest on the Reading Berks Craftsmen’s Guild BCTV monthly broadcast, describing the upcoming May 7 Craft Fair at Renninger’s Farmers Market in Kutztown. It was a delightful experience, and I’m so looking forward to the show itself! If you are in the area, it will be May […]
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I decided to join with the members and Friends of Art Plus Gallery in West Reading for a Daily Artwork Challenge. My theme is Pagodas in imaginary surroundings. Remember the movie Amelie (2001). In my memory she takes her father’s garden gnome and puts him in different surroundings around the world. I confess I didn’t
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Ok, sometimes I repeat myself, I admit. Unless I get tired of making something I might make multiple versions of the same thing? Does anyone else do that? One image has been particularly prone to this repetitive activity. I had silkscreened a two-color image on a piece of satin rescued from an old wedding gown
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Here is a little video of Berks in Stitches, currently on display at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading. And, a link to the show: https://art-plus-gallery.square.site/berks-in-stitches And in case that wasn’t enough to pique your interest, an article in a local paper. https://smartnews.link/w/gcBs It has been really fun to meet friends and visitors to the
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[This is the fourth in a series I am posting on the SAQA –Studio Art Quilts Associates– members only Facebook page. It follows my journey as an art quilter.] After stumbling for a bit, I realized that what actually inspires me is that which surrounds me. And in rural Eastern PA, that means hills and
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The borough of Hamburg, PA, tucked into a valley in northern Berks County, is home to a surprising art and craft gallery, located at 320 State Street. Artists from the surrounding area support the gallery with their time and talent, proving this with the recent renovation of a long-standing men’s clothing store into their current
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For the last year or so I’ve been faithfully following a series of articles in the local paper (the Reading Eagle, which has meanwhile become one of the many “ghost newspapers” around the country, but that is another story.) The articles are really re-hashing older stories, the latest being from 2002, of the municipalities and
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