Today and tomorrow here at Lillian Smith Center...

... time goes by so quickly, doesn't it?

Here are a few more of the past days' efforts at the studio:

More from Lillian Smith Center

This residency, my third here at the Lillian Smith Center, is ending this week. I'm sorry about that but I am so grateful to have the time here. I think today I finally found the next tapestry design... or almost. Seems like during each residency I have there's an point where I finally make an image I think I'd like to spend weeks or months in weaving. Today (I think) that image came.
On my walk this morning I found the second pileated woodpecker feather that I've come across here. And when in Asheville yesterday, another feather turned up on the sidewalk near Oragami Ink (where my friend Peggy and I had been talking to the owner about the bird, birdnest, birdcage art works she has in her shop). I made drawings of both feathers today. And, before I'd found the pileated feather, I started the day by writing--among other things: "Forced or Found?" in my morning pages.
Today, I went for the "Found"--the feathers that have been given to me. One of these paintings made today may become the next tapestry.




And, right now, here's Screamer Mountain with fog and mist that accompany the afternoon rain:



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Hooray! Another exhibit acceptance!

I was excited to receive emails this morning that let me know I have a tapestry accepted into this exhibit, to be held at The Bascom, Highlands, NC:

American Craft Today September 22 – December 29 Bunzl Gallery 

This prestigious, juried exhibition of fine craft includes one-of-a-kind pieces, and uniquely creative artwork will be featured. Approximately 50 craftspeople will be selected from across the nation to exhibit baskets, ceramics, decorative and wearable fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood craft objects created by some of America’s most skilled and visionary artists. This year’s juror is Mark Leach, the Executive Director of The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

My tapestry called "Once Upon a Time" was the one accepted.  I'll post an image of it soon although it's been here in the blog earlier this summer.  It's the one that's abstracted achromatic fiddleheads with color area at the bottom, the color area that I hadn't decided to leave in or take out.  Well, I decided to eliminate the color and let the piece consist of the upper area.  The tapestry is the one with the half-pass of red-orange used to top each day's weaving effort.

I'm also delivering the other achromatic fiddlehead piece I've recently completed to Asheville on Monday.  It's to be part of the Southern Highland Craft Guild members exhibit, Black & White 3.  So, I'll have three tapestries in three separate exhibits through the fall and early winter of this year!  And, all three exhibits are of many kinds of art work, not just tapestry.

And, my wonderful time here at the Lillian Smith Center continues for another week.  So, I'm off to the studio again to get back to work... lunch break is over!

The Art of Georgia exhibit...

... sponsored by the Governor's Office and Georgia Council for the Arts, being held at the State Capitol, late August through early January. I have a tapestry included in the first of several Georgia regional exhibits. So yesterday involved a trip to Atlanta with my husband to deliver the piece, a chance to go to the art supply store for paper and printing ink, a nice Thai lunch, and stopping by a frame shop to pick up finished works being framed (not my work but some from the collection). Follow those very full hours up with a drive back to the Lillian Smith Center, and there you have my Thursday!



http://www.gaarts.org/8-news/61-governor-awards

And, by the way, that's Dahlonega gold on the Capitol!


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