Aug 27, 2023 | About Creativity, My Art & Studio
What do to when you’re burning out as an artist Over on IG, Abby McMurry, who you might know was Yeiou Paper Objects and who makes amazing paper house portraits – asked about what to do when you need to shake things up in the studio, when you’re...
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 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....
: ) Yes! Right up our alleys!
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Yay! Another exciting tiny thing!