One of my favorite fiber artists, Jeanne Beck, had a beautiful post this morning about creativity. Beside her own commentary, it includes 2 short videos made by John Coffeen featuring artist John Frame and his creative process. The videos have one of the most beautifully articulated explanations of the making and meaning of art and the artistic process that I’ve heard. Very, very inspiring. Thanks, Jeanne!
Take a look here
"Cave Series VII" (C) 2010 by Tracy McCabe Stewart
I know it’s been a while. I have been busy with non-art stuff for a while and haven’t had much that really seemed worth writing about.
I just completed the piece shown above. It’s another piece in my cave series; all are based on the incredible images found on the cave walls of Altamira (Spain), Lascaux (France) and chauvet (France). As much as I work with these images, they never cease to thrill me. I have another piece on the boards, so it will be a lot less time before the next post!
Barb Harms, a wonderful art quilter with a great blog, has posted an interview with me on her blog.
Take a look here
My fabulous guild, the North Suburban Needle Arts Guild is having it’s incredible annual show, “The Fine Art of Fiber” is happening at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I will have multiple pieces in the show and have work for sale in the boutique.
The show will run the following hours:
Thursday, November 4, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Friday – Sunday, November 5 – 7, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Come and say hi!
Hi all,
My friend Margie Trembly of Springfield Artworks is holding some wonderful classes. check them out:
Springfield ArtWorks in Springfield,NE to Celebrate their First Anniversary with Special Events and Classes
Springfield ArtWorks, located at 183 Main Street in Springfield, NE will be celebrating their first anniversary on November 4,5 and 6th by hosting nationally recognized fiber and jewelry artists and authors, Kay Kaduce and Rona Horn from Wisconsin. Kay and Rona’s popular book(also written by Judy Jacobs) “The Big Book of Needle Felting” is a popular felting book. They also have authored other art books as well.
The classes are as follows:
Thursday,November 4, Rona Horn
First half day -Knot right now bracelet 11am-3pm class fee $65, materials fee $30
Knot Right Now by Rona Horn
Second half day -Felted bead necklace 4pm-8pm class fee $65, materials fee $25
Felt bead necklace
Lampwork beads will be available (but not necessary) for purchase for both of the half day classes.
Faux Freefrom bracelets by Rona Horn
Faux Freefrom necklace by Rona Horn
Full Day- Wet felt vessel class fee $130, materials fee $40 - 9am-4pm
wet felt vessel by Kay Kaduce
Friday, November 5, Kay Kaduce
Full Day- Nuno felt scarf class fee $130, materials fee $25 9am-4pm
Nuno scarf by Kay Kaduce
Saturday, November 6, Kay and Rona
Make and take it flower Nov 6 from 11:30- 4:30pm $8
In addition to the classes, Springfield ArtWorks will be hosting a trunk show of Kay’s and Rona’s work entitled: Wearable Art Trunk Show featuring Kay Kaduce and Rona Horn from October 28th from 1pm-6pm Tuesday-Fridays and 11am-5pm Saturdays until November 20. Closed on Sunday and Mondays. Art pieces will be available for purchase at the trunk show.
On Saturday, November 6, Glenn and Margie Trembley, owners of Springfield ArtWorks will be showcasing their private collection of glass art including works by Josh Simpson, an internationally recognized contemporary glass artist, best known for his infinity project, Margaret Neher nine time Niche award finalist and two time winner, best known for her glass botanicals, Newy Fagan a renowned artist in the kiln formed glass movement, best known for her fused horses. Diana East from the UK, best known for her award winning glass beads,Kevin Smolark, an up and coming glass artist,and Higgins Studio, best known for blazing the path for fused glass using window glass and glass powder and frit. They will also have special pieces that they created for their own collection. This event will be held from noon until 4pm.
The public is invited to attend the open house on Saturday.
contact:
Margie Trembley
Springfield ArtWorks
http://www.springfieldartworks.com
info@springfieldartworks.com
402-301-9162–
The Studio Art Quilt Association (SAQA) begins their annual fundraiser today! This is a great opportunity to purchase some great art work and help a really wonderful organization at the same time.
There are 288 Benefit Auction quilts donated by our members. The SAQA 2010 Benefit Auction will begin on Monday, September 20th at 2:00 Eastern Time and conclude on Saturday, October 9 at 2:00 Eastern.
Last year’s Benefit Auction raised $47,325. The funds raised through the Auction are critical to supporting SAQA’s exhibitions, catalogs and outreach programs.
How the Auction works:
The Auction is run in three sections (Section 1 – Pages 1a and 1b; Section 2 – Pages 2a and 2b; Section 3 – Pages 3a and 3b).
On the first day of each section’s auction, the price for all pieces in that section is $750. The next day (at 2:00 Eastern), the price drops to $550. The third day, it drops to $350, then $250, then $150, and finally $75.
The first section will begin September 20th at 2:00 Eastern.
The second section will begin September 27th at 2:00 Eastern.
The third section will begin October 4th at 2:00 Eastern.
On another note, I’ve been vat dyeing again. This one below was made from a Procion dye that I got from Dharma Trading Company called Mild Wing Sauce. It was an oops dye they were selling at a great price. It was screened with golden yellow and scarlet vat dyes.
Scarf Mania! Scarf by Tracy McCabe Stewart
this one was created from another oops! Dharma dye called How Now Brown Cow. I LOVE this color. It was screened with scarlet vat dye as well.
More Scarf Mania! Scarf by Tracy McCabe Stewart
I a a fairly pragmatic person, but occasionally do have grandiose fantasies. I wrote about my Fake Farmer fantasy in an earlier post. One of my fantasies is to own a gypsy wagon. My husband just shakes his head and changes the subject because usually they are in no danger of becoming real.
Ha! He may have to worry just a little more because now you can take a gypsy caravan vacation across Ireland. You get the gypsy wagon and the horse and travel the open road. You probably cover about 10 miles in the week and probably have a hard time pulling up to the grocery store, but who cares? It’s a gypsy wagon!
Vardo from Wikipedia
The fantasy lives on……..
I have been crazy busy traveling this summer and working on some personal projects. I am also working on a piece for a large juried show next month, but can’t post any pictures of it. It will negate it’s eligibility to the show.
In the meantime, I thought I would introduce you to a fabulous textile artist named Lorraine Roy. She works out of Canada and I have been following her work for years. I love Lorraine’s textiles. Her focus is mainly on trees as subjects these days, but I first got hooked on her work when she was doing cloth representations of patinaed sheet metal. Unfortunately, she no longer has these pieces on her site, but you can see her gorgeous tree compositions. They are all a gorgeous mixtures of abstraction and realism; full of beautiful colors and texture. They are well work a look. Enjoy!
I was walking around Asheville galleries today and ran into some of Chris Roberts-Antieau’s fantastic artwork today. I am not normally a person who likes humorous art, but her work makes me laugh out loud. Some of it makes me think and some just reminds me of my childhood. I especially love “The Unlimited Potential of the Human Mind” and “Feeling Sorry for Pluto”. and “Pot Roast on Fire” These pieces can be seen in her 2010 collection on her website. Make sure you enlarge them; there’s a lot of great detail.
Her website includes all sorts of fun stuff to look at other than just her art.
I am currently in beautiful western North Carolina, but was in Door County for a few days last week. Door County is small, but they have a really high caliber of artwork in the galleries there. There are enough tourists with an eye to buy to support the area’s galleries. I visited some of my favorite galleries while I was up there. Unlike my previous visit, this time, I had my camera!
My favorite galleries not only have stellar artwork, but the owners have created these beautiful spaces to showcase art; often utilizing old barns or outbuildings and creating beautiful gardens to surround or display the artwork. The use of space is as impressive as the roster of artists. For me, they are a haven; a place of peace. I step out of the car and I feel myself immediately quiet and pay attention.
I hope to create an artist space of my own as imaginative as these galleries in the future.
My gal pal Nina’s husband, Richard Edelman had a beautiful sculpture exhibit going at the Woodwalk Gallery. It’s a great space and they had a gorgeous setting for his work:
Richard Edelman
Here are some shots of the gallery space. Here’s a converted corn crib:
Converted Corn Crib (c) Tracy McCabe Stewart
Here is a shot of the ceiling:
Corn Crib Ceiling (c) Tracy McCabe Stewart
My favorite gallery of all is the Edgewood Orchard Gallery. First of all, they are the sweetest people on the planet. All of them. The owner, Nell, is an absolute peach. They have a beautiful space with a series of gallery bulidings connected with patios and a beautiful sculpture garden:
Edgewood Orchard Gallery"s Sculpture Garden
The converted barn serves as the main gallery:
Edgewood Orchard Galleries
here’s another shot:
Patio leading to additional gallery space
and here is some of the incredible artwork:
Sculpture by David Valentine
and a beautiful piece by William Jauquet:
William Jauquet Sculpture
and a lovely piece by James G. Moore:
James G. Moore
Here are some other great galleries I would recommend:
The Blue Dolphin House for great garden art, K Allen Gallery for glass, and the Fine Line Designs Gallery for both sculpture and indoor art.
I will post NC pictures when I return to Chicago. I can’t seem to get them off my camera!
