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The very amazing Irene asked me to be a part of the Six Questions series on Shutter Sisters – if you haven’t seen the site before, it’s a collaborative photo blog for women with a passion for photography. I’m honored! Check out the interview here.
I also want to mention something else about Irene. She has two (twin) boys who are the same age as my Max and I just noticed they’ve started their own online journals. If there is any blog worth reading, it’s the blogs our children would create. Forget the news – find out what they are writing, drawing, storytelling about! It’s like Picasso said, “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Just wanted to share some news with you – a series of my photos will be at a new show in Los Angeles. If you’re in the area, head to the opening reception of INSTANT GRATIFICATION on Saturday January 9th, 2010 at 7pm. It will be held at the Copro Gallery, Bergamot Arts Complex in Santa Monica, California. P.S. Peekaboo! You might spy one of my polaroids at around 15 seconds in on this short clip.
Remember when last July, I told you that I was part of an amazing book project called For the Love of Light, dreamt up by Jenifer Altman? The book quickly sold out, but not to fear - Chronicle Books has published a set of notecards from our book, also curated by Jen. You can find two of my photographs included the boxed set. That’s one of mine above, taken at the museum of contemporary art in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Here are some of the retailers I’ve discovered carrying them: (um, WOW!)
Word is, you can also find Polaroid Notes at your local independent bookstores. Please let me know if you pick some up, I have yet to see them in the flesh, but can’t wait to check them out.
Magellan, the penguin I created for the The Woodland Park Zoo and Urban Light Studios, has been adopted by Ballard’s own Snoose Junction Pizzeria on Market Street. If you are in Seattle, you may have seen some other penguins popping up in the area. All the Penguins on the March have now found a temporary home with a business in Wallingford, Greenwood-Phinney or Ballard until they get auctioned off in August and September. Here is a list of penguins and their locations, extra points if you go on a scavenger hunt and play I Spy!
Yours truly will be showing some of my (600 series) polaroids along with 180+ photographers from around the world at Hibbleton Gallery. I won’t be able to make it to the show, so if you are in the area and stop by, please let me know or send me some snapshots from the opening reception!
What an awesome surprise to find this incredible feature about my work splashed on the front of Nylon Magazine’s website…! I especially love the mention of my latest creation… ☆ Thanks Nylon! ☆
While waiting for the big news, I thought I would share some art related news. My jewelry recently accompanied the work of talented fashion designer Jennifer Evans, going down the runway at the London AIU 2009 Fashion Show in May. I’m so honored to have been a part of the show! And as you can see, her collection is absolutely breathtaking…
I’m so impressed with The Greenwood Collective building’s space…all that light, all that exposed brick, open galleries down a flight of stairs. It’s got a true arterior soul. There was a lot of great community artwork being shown tonight during the art walk, among the unveiling of all the penguins. I stopped in briefly tonight to say hello and took some more pictures of the Penguins on the March. Enjoy!
As promised, here is a look at my completed penguin for the Penguins on the March project! Inspired by the distance that penguins cover in their migrations, I felt that this guy was meant to be a traveler, and so I set out to bring that part of his personality…
He wears a scallop edged coat made of 1970s National Geographic maps, all cut into teardrops shapes and assembled project runway style. (I swear at any point, Tim Gunn was going to walk into the room, hands clasped, and say to me, “Make it work!”) Trimmed in velvet and vintage leather and plastic buttons, he dons a hat I crocheted for him, a lime cotton collar, as well as a tiny paper suitcase.
Mini trees near the base elaborate his sense of wanderlust through various landscapes, and gives him a pacific northwest vibe.
This morning Magellan was part of the Penguins on the March launch at the Space Needle, where he met all kinds of people, young and old, including other Seattle artists part of the project.
The launch event is a celebration of art and wildlife conservation, inspired by the Woodland Park Zoo’s brand new Humboldt exhibit, and continues tonight where Magellan and other penguins will be at The Greenwood Collective during the Art Up/Open Up Greenwood-Phinney art walk. After today, Penguins on the March will begin migrating into Ballard, Fremont and Greenwood-Phinney, where some will be featured in front of neighborhood businesses through September. (Catch some select penguins at the Waiting for the Interurban sculpture in Fremont tomorrow, June 13th.) After migrating through Seattle, the penguins will be auctioned off to benefit Woodland Park Zoo’s field conservation program, which supports 38 wildlife conservation projects in 50 countries worldwide. More pics from this morning’s launch, taken before the crowd got going…
