Art shows

  • It’s called Artist

    Art as therapy is something that is an interesting adventure.  The piles of things I make often represent the outcome of channeling my anxiety or perhaps waylaying it.   Art in itself is odd. Being called an artist odder still.… Continue reading

  • Lookalike.

    This is the Art Director posing with my quilts. I LOVE how she chose to interact with my art.  This will be one of my favorite photographs.   There was an artist reception for me and I decided that I… Continue reading

  • Played So Much.

    The only Art Show I do, is less than a week away.  It is time now to look up from what I have created, price my art and start getting organized to show. There is a big difference between doing… Continue reading

  • Presence of Art

    Yesterday I was part of Art Week in Marquette, and it was about demonstrating your art – and I misunderstood and yet I overachieved. I brought way way too much art compared to the other artists. We were a small… Continue reading

  • Serious Artist.

      Being an artist is a weird thing.   Selling what you play with seems often weirder.     Now that I am retired, I was feeling like I had to become more 'serious' about being an artist. Like creating… Continue reading

  • The Right Direction

    I looked back in my blog and the first time these Story Line Quilts were displayed was July 2012 at the Strawberry Festival Quilt show- almost 10 years ago. There is a difference in who I was back then, compared… Continue reading

  • Off to Show My Soul

    My quilts are rolled up and loaded into the car – their labels have been printed – they are all set to be put on display. I was chosen by the Peter White Library Arts Committee to show my art… Continue reading

  • Once Again On Display

    So, a few years back, prior to Covid, I was working with the Library Director at Peter White Public Library about having My Storyline quilts on display.  We had to postpone a few times, but now we are ready to… Continue reading

  • Soul at Rest

    This blog has been a way for me to sort out truth from fiction – as well as what is helpful or healing for my mental wellness – and perhaps more how it feels coming from a dysfunctional cult-like religious… Continue reading

  • Story Line of Becoming

    I felt like I was taking the records of my mentalness as I left Copper Country Mental Health with my quilts. I was taking them out of a safe space. A place that understands, and holds sacred, our mental being.… Continue reading