Category: Art Scene

Squeezed into a corner

This is real and it happens… So how do I move back into art I’m at either the best or the worst time to blog about art:  Currently creating no art at all. I was swept up in …

Art vs Life

What is art and what is just life? Maybe I’m crazy but I don’t think I’ll ever quite figure this one out. We’re as busy as ever.  The only art I’m allowed these days, or at least till …

Life on hold

Derailed This is becoming the busiest summer on record for us.  All projects are on hold (so much for good intentions in creating a summer goal), life and any kind of fun are on hold as we get …

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What in the world will I make? We’ve been busy this spring parts of it to the point of madness.  Now I find myself at a pause as spring activities pause and summer activities have not yet started …

Working from photos

How to make it work Working from photos isn’t ideal, but it allows me to work anywhere and at any time.  A photo doesn’t have all the color that real life would have but what it does have …

What really matters?

Let me just start out by saying I hate emotion! Not really all of them just the bad ones.  I reach for the good emotions – joy, laughter, and peace – and I try to avoid with a vengeance …

Success + exhaustion

I think these two words all too often go hand in hand.  To lead, to have a successful event especially when all of us are unpaid volunteers, means you’re in there doing.  You have the right people beside …

Hanging a show part 2

Nearly there This week, as I finish out the details to hang on Saturday, I’m collecting the final liability forms.  Most shows require some agreement.  Show volunteers do their best to protect and take care of your art but …

Are you ready for this?

Are we ever? I’m leading what has become a rather large undertaking that continues to grow and grow.   The mass behind our art show has grown and supposedly I am at the head. Or am I?  It’s …

Hanging a show part 1

Are you alone on this one? Hanging a show can take a lot longer then you think. If you’re alone try to spread out the prep work. Make yourself a list if your a list person. If you …