by Elaine | Aug 6, 2022 | Calls for Art, Micro Galleries
Posting to clarify that both of these opportunities are still active! Clocking in for Unpaid Labor Public Participation Art Project I have two opportunities to share. I’m running a public participation art project about unpaid labor, involving art on time cards....
by Elaine | Aug 4, 2022 | Micro Galleries
Q: When did you begin working with encaustics? What do you love about it? A: I took an encaustic class taught by Mel Kolstad about three years ago. I always wanted to try encaustic painting but as a person with a very small studio, the set up for the typical...
by Elaine | Aug 4, 2022 | Teaching
This fall I’ll be teaching both Shibori Dyeing – Japanese style tying, clamping and wrapping, which will dye with the Procion color “indigo” which has been formulated to mimic the plant dye indigo. It has all the right undertone colors. It is...
by Elaine | Jun 4, 2022 | My Art & Studio
Above is the collage I made using an element from the archive and library at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont. How did I get the chance to do such a cool thing? It was through a virtual residency with the Kolaj Institute. Through a combination of group...
by Elaine | May 30, 2022 | My Art & Studio
If you’re a long time reader, you know I’ve been writing about residencies for years, pining to go on one, but my kids were too little, coming up with alternatives… In October 2021, I went on an independent residency at the Grand Marais Art Colony in...
by Elaine | May 26, 2022 | My Art & Studio
Virtual Tour Here’s your virtual tour of my solo show, “Ghost Prints and Shadow Work,” currently up at the Compassion Factory Gallery and Studio in Brookfield, Illinois. As you enter the gallery, this wall on your left indicates the start of the...
by Elaine | May 14, 2022 | Exhibitions
Time Cards in the Clocking in for Unpaid Labor Project I’m delighted to share the first batch of time cards that have come back in the mail! I sent out about 25 time cards, unsolicited, to about 25 artists, many of them artists who have sent work into the micro...
by Elaine | May 10, 2022 | Micro Galleries
Ever since incarcerated artist Juan C. Hernandez shared his art with me (see image, above) and proposed a solo show in the micro gallery, I’ve been learning how much I didn’t know about prisons in the United States. I mean, I knew I was against for profit...
by Elaine | May 3, 2022 | My Art & Studio
Very exciting news about a quilt I contributed a block to! The Riverside Arts Center writes: The quilt will become a part of the new Pandemic Collection, housed in the Field Museum’s Anthropology Collection. According to the Field Museum, The Pandemic Collection is...
by Elaine | Apr 24, 2022 | Calls for Art, My Art & Studio
How to Participate Clocking in for Unpaid Labor is a new public participation art project where people are invited to collage, sew, quilt, paint, whatever, a time card in order to express something about the unpaid labor that they do. Whether that work is emotional...
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