Owlets

by | Jan 13, 2012 | Cut Paper, New Work!

These are a bunch of little owls I made over last spring and summer and sold at my summer shows. All measure approximately 2.5 x 4 inches.

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Kreative Blogger Award

by | Jan 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

award_kreativbloggeraward211Many thanks to Cynthia of http://wordsandimagesbycynthia.com for awarding me with a Kreative Blogger award as part of her acceptance of her award! An award presented to bloggers by bloggers, the rules of acceptance are: (1) Thank the blogger who presented me with the award. (2) Post a photo of the award. (3) Share ten things about me that readers don’t know. (4) Choose six people to present this award to. (5) Let the six know that they have been awarded!

I’m not really blog-savvy enough to be able to fulfill all the rules of this acceptance, but it seems like fun, so I’ll do it halfway, and bend the rules by linking to some artist friends I’ve met at various shows that I’ve meant to link to and haven’t yet..

So… Ten (possibly weird, random, and useless) Things You May Not Know About Me:

1. I’m a cancer (astrologically speaking).
2. I took 10 years of piano lessons interspersed with violin, flute, and bass guitar, and rarely practiced. Totally regret not practicing now..
3. I like to keep my tube of toothpaste very clean and always squeezed from the bottom.
4. When I was young I couldn’t stand the way my toes felt pressed together inside shoes.
5. I spent half my day today catching up on emails that I needed to respond to while sitting underneath a down comforter set up like an igloo on my couch (I totally fell asleep and am now doing this instead of finishing my emails).
6. I love to cook for people.
7. My photograph (at age 14) is in a college physics textbook demonstrating some law of sound waves or something. I’ll dig it up one of these days.
8. I’ve had the same winter boots since 1997. I just bought a new pair, but I’ll probably still wear the old ones anyway.
9. I had to hit the ground once during a drive-by shooting (wrong place, wrong time). Ahh, Brooklyn..
10. I don’t really watch TV, but I totally love The Golden Girls. I’ve seen every episode.

6 awesome artists I’ve befriended at shows (there’s more that I’ll surely link to down the road):

Michael Hamlin-Smith – ceramist
Dolan Geiman – contemporary art with a southern accent
Lisa Mistiuk – oil painting
Kent Ambler – print maker
Thomas Spake – glass artist
Yvonne Miller – mixed media

The Pennywhistlers: Daragoi da, daragoi (1965)

by | Jan 10, 2012 | Music I Like

I picked up “The Pennywhistlers: Folksongs of Eastern Europe” on vinyl awhile back solely based on the cover, which has a very european folk art motif (made sense.. based on the record title..). Little did I know, it would become one of my favorite records in my collection.. and it’s nothing like anything else I have. I just ordered the record that the song above is from, called “A Cool Day and Crooked Corn” from an online used record vendor. Here’s a little bit about The Pennywhistlers from Wikipedia (which made lots of neurons fire in my brain):

The Pennywhistlers were an American singing group founded by folklorist and singer Ethel Raim and popular during the 1960s folk music revival. They specialized in Eastern European choral music, sung primarily A cappella. Folk singer Theodore Bikel, in his autobiography Theo, called them “the closest to the real thing in authenticity in the United States.” They toured throughout the 1960s, appearing at the Sing Out! hootenanny at Carnegie Hall, the Fox Hollow Festival, and the Mariposa Folk Festival, among others. They shared the bill with performers such as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Reverend Gary Davis, Leonard Cohen, and many others.