Dec 29, 2025 | About Women Artists, My Art & Studio
In September, I attended part of an online feminist art history conference – it was also in person at American University in D.C., but I did the online thing. There was a very cool presentation about a group of women artists in the ’70s who did a series of...
Dec 26, 2025 | About Creativity
This year, my family did something we’ve never done before, we did a handmade + books Christmas. Late in the game, we added thrifted as an option, but no one really had time to go thrifting. Some of the books were second hand, for assorted reasons, such as the...
Nov 28, 2025 | My Art & Studio
The Year Starts Small Micro shows were the big thing at the start of the year – I had a show at Jill Narhstedt’s Far Northside Gallery and then I organized a group micro show at the Oak Park Art League in May. Quilts, Travel and Inspiration I finished...
Nov 23, 2025 | My Art & Studio
Terrain Biennial I was in the Terrain Biennial! Here’s Balance & Tension, Scaling Up: This is my third time being in Terrain, but my first time with my own artwork. The previous two events, I had the outdoor version of the Angelica Kauffman Gallery, each...
Sep 8, 2025 | My Art & Studio
While you can often buy my art from an art gallery when I have a solo show, or work in a group show, today’s post is here to tell you how to buy my art any time. Smaller works are ready to ship I’m in the process of adding all my 12″ x 12″...
Sep 5, 2025 | My Art & Studio
I’m so excited and proud to share this with you! This is a first for me, it’s an indoor-outdoor show, a combination public art installation and solo show, all in one. Let’s look at the outside some more! And here’s the inside: The art inside...
Aug 23, 2025 | My Art & Studio
Three Quilts, from Inspiration to Finished Quilts, and the History We Learned along the Way Three of the quilts in my current solo show have a common inspiration, the Wages for Housework Campaign. Since this is a little known movement from history, I thought I’d...
Aug 21, 2025 | My Art & Studio
This is yet another of my artworks inspired by a twitter post. Amy Diehl, PhD, quoted Eve Rodsky on twitter. Here’s what Rodsky, author of Fair Play, said in an NPR interview: “As a society, we’ve chosen to view and value men’s time as if...
Aug 20, 2025 | Exhibitions, My Art & Studio
I love it when artists posts those annual reviews of their income, with pie charts of where their income came from, and in what percentage. I’ve been thinking about all the expenses that went into my current solo show at Art Reach of Mid Michigan, and thought...
❤️ Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me! That's amazing! I hope you get to experience…
Hello Elaine, a while ago I was having a blah day when suddenly your healing quilts popped into my mind.…
Thank you so much Lauree! I appreciate that!