Wow!

Hah! Here it is only the 3rd day of the new year, and I have already made progress on my first Artistic goal. Yesterday, I had a couple of errands to run in town, and after the first I had time to visit 3 galleries, and discuss putting some of my work with one of the gallery owners. He has promised to get back to me, and had me fill out an application and looked at my website. I am very encouraged by even getting that far!
Also, I have agreed with two of my fellow bloggers, Marie and Sandra, to work together through the exercises in 'The Artist's Way'. I have had the book for years -- correction, had it, loaned it out and never got it back, had to buy a new copy a year or so ago... but I have never worked through it. So when Marie brought up getting some of us together to do just that, I jumped at the chance. So far, I have begun the daily morning pages, and the gallery visits yesterday were my first 'Artist's date', so I am moving forward!
Just a side note for anyone who has balked at the morning pages... I was doing mine this morning, and got an inspiration for another project! Out of nowhere, except it tied into the discussion I had yesterday with the gallery owner. With the downswing in the economy, he has noticed a definite slowdown of sales, and was commenting on how it would be nice if he could get lower priced items in the gallery. Today, I got the idea to create fabric postcards with a 'Flagstaff' theme, since we have so many out of town visitors. This would be a unique 'postcard' they could take with them to remind them of their visit. So today, I created the first draft of a design that should be fairly easy and quick to make up. It has a mountain, representing the San Francisco peaks, an aspen leaf, since we have a great many aspens here, and a pine cone with some needles, since we are famous for Ponderosa pines here. I can't wait to make up the prototype! More soon...

ACF Gallery opening

I am a member of the Artists' Coalition of Flagstaff, and last night we celebrated the opening of our very own gallery, just in time for First Friday Art Walk! Here are some shots I took:

We had a wonderful turnout for our first show, with lots of great feedback from folks who stopped by. We're hoping to be open on the weekends as well as First Friday Art Walk, with the help of volunteers from the members who are showing their art. BTW, the last picture is of a 'restored mannequin' by one of our members, Nancy DeBlois, who restores mannequins and makes Luminarias as well... there was a great story about her on the front page of our local paper yesterday! Great going, Nancy...

First Friday Art Walk coming up!

I am a member of the Flagstaff Artists' Coalition, and we recently opened a gallery downtown to showcase works by our members. Friday, November 7th, we will be participating in the First Friday Art Walk and if you are in the area, I hope you will stop by! I have 4 Art Quilts and a number of hand-dyed silk/rayon scarves on display, and we have a terrific display of work by several other members as well!
Click here for a link to the map of galleries that will be participating. I hope to see you there!