April 28, 2013

Why owl, why?

What do you want me to learn?   Twice, within a span of ten days, in the exact same spot, a barn owl or a barred […]
April 14, 2013

Patience is Everything, Rilke

In 2010, my friend Tara O’Brien and I gave a workshop on Japanese Binding at the Philadelphia SGC Conference. Check out our handout to learn more: […]
April 7, 2013

Happiness Comes in Waves

From January 1995-August 1997 I lived on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean as a Peace Corps Volunteer. My job? Art teacher in a […]
March 31, 2013

Ladders

A couple of summers ago, I went to Jiminy Peak’s Aerial Adventure Park to try the High Ropes Course. It’s divided by level, levels that parallel […]
March 24, 2013

The Emerson Book

When I was in graduate school in Philadelphia, my work became completed centered on trees and nature. I created tree rubbings, books about trees, paintings focused […]
March 17, 2013

Ruth Laxson. Biking. Rilke.

I just returned from 10 glorious days south of the Mason-Dixon Line in sunny Georgia. Doug and I drove the 1000+ miles with our bicycles through […]
February 24, 2013

Vocation

Part of my work as a college professor involves preparing students to graduate. How do you prepare an art major to enter today’s job market? There’s […]
February 14, 2013

Love Song

                                          How shall I hold my […]
February 3, 2013

What’s inspiring me now

I spent a good part of my day working on possible collages for Alchemy Initiative’s  upcoming 10×10 exhibition in Pittsfield. (In between two glorious ice-skating sessions […]
January 30, 2013

Bon Soleil

And so begins the second round of the Australian American Mail Exchange. During this round we each will choose a structure AND a theme. First up–a […]
January 27, 2013

Woodshed 2013

100 Hours in the Woodshed is a biannual event hosted by Danny O at MCLA’s Gallery 51. This is my third year as a participant. It […]
January 20, 2013

…and everything matters.

Right now I am contemplating Ten Things that Inspire me right now for work that will be in an exhibit as part of Pittsfield’s 10x1o Festival […]
January 13, 2013

Happy 2013!

I’m a little behind on the whole New Year’s thing, my intention setting got rolled right into the Haiti pre-trip, trip and post-trip, and now on […]
January 9, 2013

The Responsibility of the Artist

We left Haiti Monday morning after a short press conference with Haitian news outlets about our trip. The conference focused on the students responses, but at […]
January 6, 2013

A Bon Soleil to you!!

We spend our days in Haiti being shuttled from one location to another by our amazing driver Joel. Jess Jean-Charles, one of the students on our […]