I’m spending my last day in Colorado regrouping and relaxing before a long drive home and major work to get done after that. I’ve had a great time here, first at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver, then at the Greenhorn Valley Art & Music Fest in Colorado City, and finally at the OpenArts Fest in Boulder. Each show went really well. And I was so happy to get to see some friends from past shows (as well as make some new friends that I’ll surely see again).
Some cool news derived from my travels: the gallery director from Art & Soul Gallery in Boulder saw my work at the Cherry Creek Arts Fest and contacted me regarding artist representation. Sooo, I drove into Boulder early last Friday before the OpenArts Fest to meet with her, and I’m honored to say that my work is now in the gallery which has been recognized as “Boulder’s Best Gallery” by the Boulder Weekly Readers Poll for 6 years. It really is a beautiful gallery with so much really great work inside, and I’m totally honored to have my work in there.
My major faux-pas of the trip: before I went to visit with the gallery director mentioned above, I was looking for parking and resorted to a parking garage after an unsuccessful search on the streets… Only I forgot that on top of my taller-than-average vehicle is a rooftop clamshell carrier. And it didn’t exactly fall within the height limits in the parking garage, so I found myself hitting signs and scraping the ceiling and having a small panic attack after thinking I was going to be stuck in there forever. I eventually made it out alive, and have only felt better about my mistake by admitting it to the world.
When I get home tomorrow night, I’ll start in on fulfilling three weeks of Etsy orders plus five commissioned paper cuttings, as well as tearing into finishing up 12 new works for my upcoming exhibit at the Carnegie Cultural Center in Ottawa, KS. Summers have become the busiest season in my world, it seems. And I guess that’s alright by me.