May 22, 2023 | Calls for Art
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...
May 11, 2023 | My Art & Studio
Taking Up Space A group of Chicago area artists who are also mothers get together each May to put on a show of our art. This year, the show is at Positive Space Studios and the lead artist on the project is Jill Nahrstedt. This show is part of Taking Up Space, an...
Apr 28, 2023 | About Creativity
I’m just back from a conference where I had a full circle experience about mother of pearl buttons, and I have some cool pictures to show you, about how buttons used to be made. My state arts advocacy organization, the Arts Alliance IL, holds a conference called...
Apr 21, 2023 | My Art & Studio
Resident Life at the Lakeside Inn Residency For two weeks, this pond was my view out of the window, and I finally managed to get a photo of a heron, who came to the pond to eat frogs and koi. For two weeks, bird sounds were normal and my artist/writer roommates and I...
Mar 12, 2023 | My Art & Studio
The year started off with a bang – as I installed the Clocking in for Unpaid Labor Show at the Orland Park Park Public Library on January 3rd, and now, in early March, no wait – mid-March (!), I’m preparing for a show in the window space at Ignition...
Mar 5, 2023 | My Art & Studio
As in, time to finish these quilts! I’ve been good about finishing smaller quilted works, banners and small wall pieces. Less good about finishing larger quilts. (My excuse is that I need nice weather so I can use spray-on basting glue.) Let’s take a look...
Mar 4, 2023 | My Art & Studio
When Mary Lynn Mahoney, the outreach librarian at the Orland Park Public Library put out a call for “Mythical Monsters,” I naturally went first to Greek Mythology. My kids and I listened to nearly all of the Percy Jackson and related books by Rick Riordon....
Jan 26, 2023 | My Art & Studio
On Looking Back I usually do a year in review post, but I didn’t for 2022. So here’s a mini look back and a look forward. I did extensive reviewing of the year on my own, back in November. Quite possibly too much reviewing and goal setting, as I did the...
Jan 26, 2023 | Pockets for Women
The Library of Congress Instagram account is always fun – showing us hidden parts of the library and a photo from the collection almost every day. Recently, this photo (above) caught my eye. WWII Restrictions on Women’s Clothing in the U.S. Here’s...
Jan 19, 2023 | Micro Galleries
When I saw that Mel Kolstad was working on 1,000 collages, each one individually made and just 1″ x 1″, I thought that would be a cool art show for the pink “Angelica Kauffman Dollhouse Art Center.” I thought we’d install the art not only...
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