Dream art show and more

The dream art show went well - we had 97 people come in expressedly to see the show, not counting our First Friday (gallery walk) crowd. The show was multi-media (which was my intention) - we had paintings, mixed media, mosaic, sculpture, and film.

We had a "people's choice" vote for our audience to vote for their favorite pieces.
The people's choice awards went to:
1st place: Nanci McCutcheon's "Wisdom of the Earth"
2nd place: Magic of the Crystal Tree
3rd place: Kirsten Truman's "Detachment"

My camera is missing so I didn't take pictures of the show, but we videoed it. The video will be posted on Utube and MySpace and hopefully on the new www.dreamartshow.com website. I'm still in the process of writing the text for the website. Stay tuned - more to come!

Dream art show update

Well, we heard from over 20 artists who submitted their art for the juried dream art show! I have emailed and called all of the artists and made arrangements for them to drop off or send their accepted art.

Boxes are arriving daily! I already have 6 dream pieces locked in my studio, waiting for hanging and exhibition. Yesterday Barry O'Riley from Laramie Wyoming, dropped off his 4 dream paintings. Tomorrow I meet with Irene Mok, for her to drop off her work. This weekend more artists will be dropping off their work.

The show opens on Wednesday April 30th and it runs until the 14th of May. The opening reception is Friday May 2nd from 6 to 9 p.m., when we have refreshments and live music. Celtic harpist Dave Tharp will be playing that night, which will set a nice soothing tone to the show.

I will post pictures here soon.

catching up

I have been invited to participate in a garden art show July 13th at the Whole Foods store on College Avenue, so I've been playing around with new ideas and mosaics. So far, I have decided to mosaic a few pots, a garden ball, and a garden pole (for the lack of a better word). For marketing purposes, obviously I will need to come up with a better name for the pole! I have been working on the Transition sculpture, which is getting pretty close to being done. I have the face to finish (the front and back of it). Then I will be building the base of it soon

I have also started up painting again - it's been a long time since I painted. Another new project is creating prayer poles. I primed, and painted the top part of the pole and next Monday I will paint the rest of the pole, then join them (when dry). Then I'll attach some string on the top and add prayer flags and perhaps a feather at the end.

My mosaic class ended a few weeks ago. A couple of other ladies signed up to do another beginning mosaic class, which will be fun.