Featured @ Fiddlehead Center for the Arts in Scarborough

I am pleased and honored to have had some of my batik art work hanging for the months of July and August at the Fiddlehead Center for Art in Scarborough. Fiddlehead- Scarborough is located at 383 US Route 1 in Scarborough, ME. If you are not familiar with the center I encourage you to go to their website to check out their great fall class offerings.

Art in the Park this Saturday!

This Saturday, August 8th I will be at Art in the Park held at Millcreek Park in South Portland, ME from 9am-5pm. Stop by and say Hello!

Summer Continues

What a wonderful week I had teaching the Fabric Art Camp at Fiddlehead Center for the Arts in Scarborough, Maine. I had a group of nine very creative girls that enthusiastically attacked every project or process I gave them to try! The unexpected highlight of the week was the creation of imaginary fabric creatures that the girls worked on in their free time all week. They even created an imaginary worlds for their creatures! Sometimes the best things in life are the unplanned surprises!

Home Again!

I've returned from a wonderful week of fun and experimentation as artist-in-residence at the Schoolhouse summer camp in Vermont. We made art flags, tie dyed t-shirts, printed marbled fabric, started a weaving using an old door frame, made 3-D puppets, and created a batik hanging with glue and paint.

A big thank you to the great staff - Jessica the director, and counselors Jevin and Kelsey - and all 20 campers for making my week a fun learning experience! Thanks, too, to my friend Tana for arranging it all, and to my other Vermont friends for spoiling me with fun dinners and late night conversations!

Next week, I am on to teach at the Fiddlehead Center for Arts in Scarborough for a week of Fabric Arts Camp!

Off to Vermont!

The summer is in full swing! The sun has returned and life is good! I just finished my first teaching gig of the summer! It was with a super great group of campers who created some cool art! I think the highlight of my time with them was making edible books (aka. cakes!) on the theme of travel! They had a blast using cakes as a canvas and frosting, candy, etc as the paint!
Next up, I head to Vermont tomorrow to be the artist in residence for a week at the School House Summer Camp in South Burlington. I am excited and little bit nervous too! I have what think will be a great week planned! Hope to have some photos to post at the end of next week!

Enjoy this much needed sunshine!

Finding Some Balance

Life is very full right now! I am ever so grateful!
I am wearing a lot of hats and am trying to remember to breathe and enjoy all that I am doing!
Teaching, making art, working, preparing for a 50th anniversary party (my parents), watching my beautiful daughter leave middle school behind and move on to high school and finding time to spend with family and friends, all good things! I am feeling very lucky and trying to remember to be in the moment and not think too much about the future or the past.
I am finding time to make art (see A Piece of Art a Day Challenge, June 1, 2009), not everyday but most days. Here is one example!
Hope you are enjoying your summer and remember to breathe and enjoy!

Summertime is Calling!

Summertime means summer camps - a rite of passage for so many kids and families! So my focus for the last few days has been planning and preparing for summer camp...well camps!

This summer, I am expanding my teaching horizons with two new opportunities and I am very excited! I get to play and teach and watch great kids come up with some really cool creations! Does it get better than that?

July is camp month for me. First, I will be at Summer Stage in South Portland. Next, I will travel to South Burlington Vermont for a week.as a teaching artist at the School House Summer Camp. Then, at the end of the month I will be teaching and hopefully inspiring another group of summer campers at the Fiddlehead Center for the Arts in Scarborough! The last two camps feature the fiber arts so we will be batiking, marbling, painting, embellishing, playing, making masks! For more information check out their websites!

Are you a grown-up looking for some summer fun? Check out the classes at Artascope Studios! I will be teaching classes there in June, July and August and they offer many more classes with many talented artist / teachers. Check them out on the web!