November 11, 2011

11-11-11

I love number games like 11-11-11, and the joy of making a wish at 11:11 on 11-11-11. I often determine the number of an edition of […]
October 29, 2011

Happy Birthday!

Today, October 29th, the day I was born. I take liberty with a selection from Vacillation by William Butler Yeats in honor of this day: My forty-second year […]
October 15, 2011

North Adams Open Studios

North Adams Open Studios is this weekend, Saturday, October 15th from 10-6 and Sunday, October 16th from 10-4. I’ll be printing at PRESS, at 105 Main Street […]
October 7, 2011

The Venice Biennale

I am a lucky woman. I attended Art Basel and the Venice Biennale this year. Somehow I managed to squeeze this trip into the middle semester, […]
September 26, 2011

To acquire

ACQUIRE, Merriam-Webster tells me this means “to get as one’s own.” But a definition is never as simple as that. The sub-categories of the definition are […]
September 11, 2011

Let the Light Enter

I commend those who commemorated this day with services and events that look forward and come from a place of wanting to create positive change, those […]
August 31, 2011

Common Place Books and Homeplay

I’ve been creating Common Place Books for many years now. I began compiling them long before I knew they actually had a name. Some are in […]
August 24, 2011

Opening THURSDAY at PRESS

Tomorrow at PRESS: Letterpress as a Public Art Project the third show This One Goes to ELEVEN opens. It’s been an incredible summer of art making […]
August 19, 2011

Why the bird?

Someone asked me the significance of the bird in North Adams yesterday. The visitor was making connections between the birds in all of my work right […]
August 15, 2011

Pickles, Pesto, Prints

I made pickles today for the first time ever, using cucumbers from my garden. My only regret is that I did not make them sooner. I […]
August 7, 2011

Turning 50

No, I’m not turning 50. I have a few more years before that happens. But I know a number of people who are turning 50, like […]
August 1, 2011

-isms of a Teaching Artist

Some time last semester my students began to keep track of various phrases that I say over and over to them. It all began with someone […]
July 28, 2011

Garlic!

I dug up the garlic this morning, completely uncertain if it was the right time, since this is my first endeavor in growing the Thomas ancestral […]