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featured artist at Soulard Art Market

i am on April 26th from 1-6. it has not been updated to their website as of today, but please visit the website! also, please come out!

www.soulardartmarket.com

Upcoming Women's Event

:::i will be vending here:::

WOMEN in LEADERSHIP
Sisterhood+Diversity+Community+Empowerment


Sponsorship of this workshop by Incarnate Word Foundation and Berkana Institute

This event promises a wonderful gathering that will stimulate your curiosity about where your own leadership can be of most benefit and inspire you to offer your service to the needs of this time and in the St. Louis community. You can look forward to stories, music and poetry to inspire us to step forward as leaders. So, plan on six hours of inspiration & conversation from 9:00am to 3:00pm, April 25, 2009 at the Maria Center on the bluffs of the Mississippi River.

Our event leader is Margaret Wheatley: speaker, consultant, author and co-founder of the Berkana Institute. The Berkana Institute connects and supports pioneering, life-affirming leaders around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in its people, traditions and environment. The Berkana Institute defines a leader as anyone who wants to help, who is willing to step forward to create change in their world.


REGISTRATION for the April 25, 2009 Sisterhood workshop: Advanced registration required.
Registration fee on or before April 1: $25 age 30 and up OR $20 age 29 and under ; After April 1, 2009 $40

Registration can be completed online at www. berkana.org.
If you are unable to register online or if you want scholarship information, please call the
Incarnate Word Foundation (314) 773-5100; ask for Debbie or Sister Mary Ann .
Directions to Maria Center will be sent as a confirmation to all who register.

Women & Environment Continues...

the next stop is Riverside Gallery in Webster Groves!
:::
April 7- April 30, 2009
Riverside Gallery
Webster Groves, MO
Shown in conjunction with the Rubia Project quilt 'Women Helping Women Stitch by Stitch'

*if you have already seen the show, you may want to revisit it @ Riverside: there is more art being added as a separate art show & the Rubia quilt...

&

I have added images of my installation at the first exhibition, being held through out the month of March. Also, new images of the shield ("at it's best, I must add")

The Clay Process...

... is my most favorite process. lately I have been able to catch up. right now I am in the middle of a few small 3 d artworks. This is night:1. These will relate in material and concept (trust me)...

...from the afropolitans network:

>this post is from the afropolitans network. I enjoy these photographs, they are a good juxtaposition of imagery, mood and space... love it.<


Afropolitans
My Next Door Neighbor is a Vacant House

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:13 AM PST

There's an amazing photo essay by Camilo Jose Vergara on Slate. Its about decaying paired houses in Camden, New Jersey. If you know anything about Camden, you know its one of the poorest/decaying cities in America. What he did was take pictures of homes that are paired but one is abandoned/vacant and the other is occupied. The contrast is incredible. Take a look: http://www.slate.com/id/2212784/ (hit launch on the photo to see the slideshow)

Revisiting

Today I have really been studying one of my first artworks: this photograph from High School. Although the print quality is "okay," what I am most interested in is the composition that I chose. Right after this photograph I changed my compositional style per instruction. I think though that maybe I did not explore all of my options... I am going to try to incorporate the composition from this photograph into some of my collages that I am currently working on.

upcoming events:

!!!
every other artist market in old orchard- off of big bend, webster groves mo APRIL 11TH...
&
artworks at spirit's lounge in alton ill MAY 2009...
be there!!!

works in progress

lots of work in the studio.
here are a few examples of what i am currently working on.
for instance, i have mostly collage here. it seems this is what i have been most drawn to lately. but i am still working out an idea of a sculptural piece and preparing for that. in the mean time i keep working... these are on varying levels of completion but i like how they are building up.

Listen to Talk Radio. Come to the Panel. Visit the Art

Support!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/weallbe/2009/03/05/Tha-Artivist-PresentsWE-ALL-BE-News-Radio

*REMINDER* tomorrow you are invited to attend the Women and Environment Panel: Voices of Contemporary Women Artists noon, Thursday St. Louis Community College Flo Valley Humanities Building room 112...

and

...visit the current exhibition @ Portfolio Gallery in Art Grand Center on the corner of Delmar and Grand behind Powell Symphony Hall. This show will be running until this Saturday.

also

Save the Date: Every Other Artist Market Saturday April 11th. Located in the Old Orchard Shopping plaza a mile up from Laclede Station road.