I am trying to make some smaller pieces to get ready for Fair in the Park, Pittsburgh’s premier art fair, on Sept 6, 7, 8. This is a smaller version of hot steel pouring with a background of steel mills (made of found papers) and Pittsburgh’s bridges.
This started with a photo I took using my phone while walking. What caught my eye was the composition – all of those blue angles and shapes in the old Heppenstall factory building in Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh). I got it printed on cloth with the intention of cutting it up and collaging it. But the composition
The show featuring the original works of art produced by members of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh to support the Fiberart International opens Saturday April 6 at Panza Gallery in Pittsburgh (6-9 PM). My contribution is the letter “R.” I am inspired by the beauty in aging city spaces. The letter is rusting and breaking
Congrats to our Friends in Yukon!.
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The Detritus of Working Class Lives.
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At a weekend workshop called “Charting your Artistic Genealogy” developed and led by Leisa Rich, I had an “A-ha” moment when Leisa suggested I should blog about my 10,000 steps a day. <head slap!> My blog is entitled Fabrics, found objects, and 10,000 steps a day. But . . . I never talk about the
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I’ve been working on this piece for two months straight. It is a companion to Western PA: Oh What a Relief. It is similarly inspired by a colored geologic relief map of Pennsylvania by the DCNR. It represents elevation data overset with bedrock geology. http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/pub/map/map067.aspx. I’m calling it Eastward Ho! because it shows an area
I had an interesting experience yesterday. My “main” art organization, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, had a weekend event called ARTday. The idea was to go back to our “hippie” origins in the the 1960’s and the very first show the organization had. It was in the parking lot of a bank on a Saturday, and
I haven’t written in my blog for a couple of weeks. The reason is that I decided to challenge myself and make a large Contemporary Art Quilt more quickly than I ever have. One I made in 2010 called “Western Pennsylvania — Oh What a Relief” got into a show here in Pittsburgh and has received favorable
