This autumn’s Silk Painters International (SPIN) Festival promises to be fun! The Festival will be at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, September 28 through October 5. There are lots of great teachers doing workshops that week, … Continue reading
The Costume Industry Coalition presents SHOWSTOPPERS an exhibit in Times Square celebrating the artisans, artists and craftspeople who bring the costumes of the theater to life: https://www.showstoppersnyc.com/ Please come to visit this amazing exhibit. It is detailed, moving, educational, and … Continue reading
Ginny Clow and I enjoyed our appearance at Showstoppers in Times Square! Ginny painted on something for Lion King, and I “fantasy aged” a Hidden Folk costume for the Frozen tour. We enjoyed chatting with the visitors about what we … Continue reading
Today was my first Zoom costume painting workshop, hosted by University of North Carolina and the inimitable Rachel Pollock (of https://la-bricoleuse.blogspot.com/ fame). I think we would have had a lot more fun had we been in person together making stuff … Continue reading
This unprecedented pandemic has made our interior spaces really important. I have been so grateful that my studio is now in my home. If my studio was still on Warren Street or Vestry Street, I would not have gotten to … Continue reading
I spent much of December painting these HOT clothes, designed by Juan Gatti, and made by the extraordinary artists at John Kristiansen NYC. These smokin’ hot performers will be seen shortly in the Saxony Theater at the Faena hotel in … Continue reading
A wonderful puzzle: a giant nylon parachute makes an undulating lake from which three witchy ladies rise up. Its not magical unless it looks like Sandra Woodall’s wonderful sketch for the Ladies of the Lake for The Cincinnati Ballet’s Camelot. … Continue reading
I attended and presented at the SEA (Self Employment in the Arts) conference in Naperville (a suburb of Chicago) last weekend. It was so great to be there! Hundreds of undergraduate art students from the middle of the country, as … Continue reading
On Stages In Stages Painting for the Theater from Parsons-Meares, LTD Closes April 30th! Fashion Institute ofTechnology Gladys Marcus Library, Entrance on the Fifth Floor Goodman Center (E Building) Please come to see three floors of costume painting samples from … Continue reading
Check out the Art Career Project‘s website at TheArtCareerProject.com. They offer great interviews and articles about different art careers to choose–helpful for beginners as well as mid career artists. They have explored graphic design, painting, jewelry design, framing, photography, to … Continue reading
