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Adaptation: a Book Art Show at UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library
I like UC Berkeley's Environmental Design Library. It feels modern and airy, with big windows, art, and prominent glass showcases, so I was happy to return with a friend to see a book art show there,...
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Stories & Poems: "No Wrong Roads to Anywhere"
I always feel like Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth:Â when I'm making objects I think I should be writing, and when I am writing I think I should be making something. So I tend to send out stories and...
View ArticleBook Art Video: Oh Great Chicken
Sometimes we focus all our energy toward one direction, which may turn out to be a misdirection. Or we may have to sit back and re-evaluate the route: "calculating" as the GPS used to say. I made the...
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Click-Click-Click Goes the Camera
A discussion on a chat group recently erupted into a pro-camera and anti-camera debate. Rather than anti-camera exactly, someone pointed out the merits of being in the moment, staying still without...
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A Rainbow of Quilts at Peninsula Museum of Art
Since my art quilt, The Hidden Coot, was accepted into SAQA's Regional Prism Play: A Full Spectrum of Art Quilts, I thought I knew what I would see when I walked up to the glass doors at Peninsula...
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The Gold Art Quilt: Between Silence and Shout
At some point my brain decided it wanted to make an all gold quilt. It could have been when I was going through the studio looking for things to donate to the Little Free Craft Library up the hill and...
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Art Quilt: Holdfast
Swimming after my interest in sea animals and the ocean in general, I learned that Giant Kelp, which can be seen at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (webcam here), is not a plant, but an alga, and it does not...
View ArticleBook Art Video: Catching a River: Delta
In 1993, I created an art-by-mail subscription in which three related letterpress printed, mixed media books would arrive during the year under the main title of "Catching a River." With the second...
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Materials: Water-soluble Oil Pastels on Canvas and Shell Journey
Once upon a time I had to go to the art-supply store to get new materials. I still do, but now very rarely since I have hoarded materials over the years. My excuse for collecting was that I was...
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Scrap Art Quilt: Waiting
Happy Summer! My visit to L.A. was cut short a day because a household member where I was staying came back from a college reunion with Covid. Currently, I am quarantining at home and wearing a mask...
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Many, Many More, and the Sum of the Parts at Craft Contemporary
If you could choose the subjects for three exhibitions at one small museum, one on each floor, what would they be? I would probably say printmaking, art quilts or textiles, and ceramics or objects. The...
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Fly Little Poems and Quilt: Some New Online Works
Just a quick post to let you know that some of my works were just made virtually available. Three of my tiny poems were published at One Sentence Poems, and one quilt was accepted into a SAQA virtual...
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Star 82 Review 10.2 Is Live Online
I'm a little behind on posting, but Star 82 Review, summer issue 10.2, is ready for you to view. Front cover is a photo I took of a rest area on one of my trips on I-5. It wasn't taken that long ago,...
View ArticleBook Art Video: Hash Browns and Toast
A summer road trip in college inspired the long prose poem, "Hash Browns and Toast," which was subsequently published by a literary magazine in Australia (long gone, called Compass). It was mostly...
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Art Quilt: I Worry About the Sky
Sometimes the mind makes a plan, but the body steers in a different direction. I thought I had sketched out an idea for a quilt that would use some of my scraps, but when I started pulling out various...
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Art Quilt: What About the Trees
Continuing my explorations, begun with I Worry About the Sky, I worked with a piece of scrap batting; I have so many strips, most too narrow to be quilts, but this one was just wide enough. I am...
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Art Quilt: The Water Is Rising and I'm Looking for a Bridge
Little by little this quilt built itself. I knew I wanted to print on fabric again and got out my linocut library: linoleum blocks I had carved for previous projects. The women called to me, so I put...
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Emmy Lou Packard Exhibit at Richmond Art Center
Over the years, I've spent a fair amount of time at the Richmond Art Center. The exhibits are nearly always refreshing and inspiring, from the community artwork in the hall to the larger shows in the...
View ArticleBook Art Video: The Sky Is a Working Color
Made in 1985, my senior year of art school, The Sky Is a Working Color features hand set type letterpress printed on all handmade paper. The structure is a modified single-flag accordion with its own...
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Art Quilt: Controlled Burn
The theme of the color red was behind the origin of this quilt. What does red mean to me? Red is for fire. It's not my favorite color, but we seem to have a lot of fires in California, and many of them...
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