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When Is It Craft? When Is It Art? Exhibits at SFMOMA
I met up with a colleague at SFMOMA a week or so ago. Like other world class museums, you can't see everything in one day so it helps to have a mission. Our mission was to see Art and China after 1989:...
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It's a Movable Card: Flat Folded Paper Puppet
I woke up at 4am after Codex, my mind buzzing and wide awake. Since I had to get out of bed I made a cup of tea and sat down with my Codex keepsakes, deciding it might be a good time to figure out the...
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Velma's Paper Wraps a Box
Remember that nice eco-printed, botanical contact printed paper I bought from Velma Bolyard at Codex? If not, these were they.It's Arches Text Wove, a very sturdy textweight paper. While I love both...
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Instructions: Linked Hinge Binding, a Dreamed Structure
On February 16, 2019, I woke up with a book structure. But that only meant I had an idea; I've tried out dream bindings in the past and sometimes they only work in the dream, but when I put this one...
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A Dog, A Photo, A Blanket: Spoonflower
My sister got a dog this year, a Maltese/Poodle that those that have them call Maltypoos. Every week I get at least one photo, so it seemed natural to do something with a good one. Since I'm still...
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Hope Rants and Regional Collective Exhibition
A new exhibit opening March 11, 2019 at the Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico was juried by Leslie Jones, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
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Ospreys at the Whirley Crane Nest: Season III
It's amazing that the birds know how to get back to the nest here in Richmond, California. I've been watching this nest camera since 2017, so I've come to know and love the key players: Richmond is the...
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Language and LACMA: poetry and art
We have many kinds of language, both verbal and visual. Laurie Anderson once sang words written by William S. Burroughs in his book, The Ticket That Exploded, "Language is a virus from outer space."The...
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Star 82 Review 7.1 Is Live!
The twenty-fifth issue of Star 82 Review is available now, full of short beautiful and thought-provoking art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We have a collaborative six-word poem, a story in both...
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Friendly Writing Workshop Upcoming in Berkeley
Long, long, ago I met artist and teacher, Alice Armstrong, who I then invited to do the titling calligraphy for my book, Painted Paper: Techniques & Projects for Handmade Books & Cards. In May...
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The Poetry of Mosses
It's a nice time of year to be a moss in northern California and a poem anywhere. April is National Poetry Month, and it is bringing showers to the thirsty mosses as well. Like poetry, mosses document...
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Exhibit & Postcard-Sized Quilt: Picking Cherries
The Berkeley Public Library is approaching its 38th quilt exhibit at the Central branch, May 6 through June 29, 2019, and I will be exhibiting my lichen quilt. With only small quilts on display this...
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Water Music: a Quilt with Marbled Fabric
Long ago, I found my then-young daughter in the living room dressed in her dancing clothes, posing and swirling a long chiffon scarf. Puzzled, I asked what she was dancing to. "The sound of water...
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Shifting Tides: a Traveling Art Quilt Exhibit
My quilt, Undersea Colonies, which I created hoping to participate in this exhibit, was accepted and will travel the pacific coast through 2021. Currently, it is in San Jose. Here's the announcement...
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New Collaboration: Letters of Transit: Bird Passports
I met Dianne Ayres through the chat group that accompanies the Golden Gate Audubon Society's Osprey nest camera at sfbayospreys.org. We met in person at a chalk art event where she was drawing a...
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Bird Art at Albany Library, May 2019
At our local library, here in the one-square-mile city of Albany, California, residents can sign up to display an assortment of things in the glass display case. In the past, the idea was that people...
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Star 82 Review Pocket Poems: 100 Short Poems + 25 images
To celebrate six years of publishing Star 82 Review, my art and literary, online and print publication, and inspired by National Poetry Month, I've chosen 100 very short poems and 25 black and white...
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What I'm Reading: Nature
Do we gravitate toward something we are interested in or does it come to us? Does it appear at the right moment because we have tuned ourselves to it? I've been reading a lot about moss, trees, and how...
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Birds of the Bible: Quail
About a year ago I received an email asking me if I would be interested in submitting a proposal for a grant: the Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award. No guarantees, but the writer was interested in my...
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Quail Linocuts now at nevermindtheart
After finishing Birds of the Bible: Quail, I had a few single prints left. Keeping art affordable is always on my mind, and prints are one way to go. Here's the rundown: prints I'm offering for...
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