Looking forward to this event! Saturday and Sunday, October 14th and 15th:
BLM Mural – Tacoma, Washington
October 2022
This amazing mural in downtown Tacoma, across from the Tacoma Art Museum was painted by a team of artists, led by Dionne Bonner, and community volunteers.
https://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/explore/blm-plaza/
https://sites.google.com/view/blacklivesmattermural-tacoma/home
Hope Village Mural – Olympia, WA
April 2022
During an online meeting with residents of Hope Village, one of the ministries of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Olympia, Washington, a design was developed that would be:
welcoming, bright, and inclusive,
to encourage all new residents with the successes of former residents.
In April, with the help of numerous volunteers of all ages from WPC, Hope Village and the greater Olympia community, these scenes on the Hope Village Office and Community Center were painted!
Spring Collages
There has been a lot to notice in nature in recent days.
Art Resources during COVID-19 Pandemic:
For kids of all ages, it’s hard to beat Mo Willems’ three-week series of Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems. As Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center this year, little did he know he would be working from HIS residence. Developed especially to help kids cope with social distancing, it offers precious and insightful glimpses into the world of a kids’ book author and illustrator.
Another resource for practicing (or those who want to be practicing) artists:
During social distancing Nicholas Wilton is offering weekly time to make art and hear from artist-friends of his near and far. It’s low-key, interesting, and inspiring to see what other folks are doing. https://workshop.art2life.com/kitchen-table-art-project-2020/
And now…Masks For Humanity
Thanks to Jayna Zweiman, the Welcome Blanket project is ongoing: https://www.welcomeblanket.org/. During the corona virus pandemic, Welcome Blanket has spawned Masks For Humanity: https://www.welcomeblanket.org/blog/2020/3/25/masks-for-humanity-we-need-your-help-to-help-others – an opportunity to make masks and get them to people requesting them. I sent a batch to a midwifery center in Lynden, WA and immediately heard back from them. Thanks for requesting them, Moonbelly Midwifery! Others went to assorted folks in Seattle, Tacoma, and Prescott, AZ.
Welcome blankets for asylum seekers
Welcome Blankets connects art institutions with refugee resettlement groups. Many times, refugee resettlement agencies don’t have the ability to process hundreds of individual gifts, and Welcome Blankets’ deliberate process of collecting, cataloging, packing, confirming, and shipping helps these great organizations prepare and gift these potential heirlooms.
This week, International Rescue Committee (IRC), reached out to Welcome Blankets and asked for 1,000 blankets of welcome to give as soon as possible to incoming recently-released asylum seekers.
Islamic Geometric Design Workshop
The beginnings of exquisite beauty.
I attended a fabulous workshop in Burnaby, British Columbia last weekend led by author and designer Eric Broug. If you don’t know of him or his books or work, look him up! http://broug.com/
Natural Colors
An inspiring article and book for those who have ever wanted to explore colors made from nature. Hard not to think of this in Autumn!
On painting dogs and cats
I’ve painted both dogs and cats in the past year (see Gallery for one example, “At home.”) This week’s New Yorker cover by Mark Ulriksen resonates: the water, relaxed pose, sleeping eyes, and shiny, wet nose. For more on this and other NYer covers see: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2018-07-09
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