He doesn’t knock..
Instead, he scales the screen door and makes himself look as pathetic as possible until a pitiful fool, such as myself, lets him in.
Leaving Kansas Sign – Paper Cutting
This was a gift for a friend who is trading in the calmer waters of Kansas for the rougher surf of Washington DC for a job involving transportation & urban planning (hence all the cars & roadways). Congratulations and good luck to him on the east side.
Night Bird’s a’Crying – Paper Cutting
This is my submission for the Bill Monroe Centennial Art Exhibit at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky. It measures 16 x 20 inches. My paper cutting was based upon the lyrics to Monroe’s song “The First Whippoorwill.”
From the museums website: “As a means of organically celebrating art-with-art, we are inviting visual artists to create a special Monroe Centennial Exhibit that will remain on display in this museum from June 23, 2010 through September 11, 2012 — a year before and after the 100th anniversary of Monroe’s birthday on September 13, 2011. Each artist will create a work of art based on and inspired by an original Monroe song. The exhibit will include song lyrics on a plaque beside each work of art. Recordings of Bill Monroe playing these songs will emanate throughout the Exhibit.”
Here are the lyrics to “The First Whippoorwill” by Bill Monroe:
Springtime is near, my darling
You say, that you are going away
My heart will be with you my darling
And I’m counting now the days
I know that soon I’ll have to travel
I know I’m over the hill
I feel so all alone, my darling said she’d be gone
When I heard that first whippoorwill
The flowers are blooming, little darling
With the budding of the trees
I hear the night birds a’crying
I know that they are warning me
I know that soon I’ll have to travel
I know I’m over the hill
I feel so all alone, my darling said she’d be gone
When I heard that first whippoorwill
Our love was planted, little darling
Just like the farmer plants his grain
But there will never be a harvest
On the hills the whippoorwill now sing
I know that soon I’ll have to travel
I know I’m over the hill
I feel so all alone, my darling said, she’d be gone
When I heard that first whippoorwill
Shadow Puppets & Shadow Plays Workshop!
For anybody in the Leavenworth, KS/ Kansas City area: I am instructing a Shadow Puppets & Shadow Plays workshop June 21 – June 25 at the Carnegie Arts Center in Leavenworth. There will be two sessions – one for 6-9 year olds, and another for 10-14 year olds. It will be a lot of fun, so sign up soon!!
For more details, visit the Carnegie Arts Center online at http://www.carnegieartscenter.org/arts/arts.html where you can also enroll online! See you there!
Three’s Company
Paper cutting measures 3.5 x 5 inches.
Paper Cuttings on Display at Czar Bar
If in Kansas City during the month of May, and more specifically, during tonight’s First Friday arts celebration in the Crossroads district, stop by Czar Bar! My paper cuttings will be hanging there through the end of this month.
Czar Bar
1531 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Mid-Week Pre-Summer Retreat
To celebrate my brother’s 34th birthday, the fam decided to pack up and head to the cabin at our local State Lake, run by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. The cabin is very nice and modern, but still in the outskirts where there’s no internet or phone signal.. It’s nice to be disconnected from time to time. And there’s not much that compares to sitting in the grass warming up under the morning sun with a cup of coffee and birds singing all around.
Night Bird Rests – Cut Paper Art
Paper cutting measures 8 x 10 inches. Framed to 11 x 14 inches.
Art in the Park – 1st Place – 2D Art!!
Thanks to all you mighty fine folks who came out to Art in the Park in Lawrence yesterday! And thank you to the Lawrence Art Guild and their selected juror who awarded me the First Place blue ribbon for 2-dimensional art!! A total surprise and honor! It was an amazing day overall.
Be sure to stop in at 1109 Gallery on Mass. Street to check out the Art By The Park group show featuring artwork from Art in the Park artists! Runs through June 7, 2010.
Little Bird Big Song
Cut paper – 8 x 10 inches. Matted & framed to 11 x 14.