Progress on a new felt figurative sculpture....

I am excited to share that I am making a new piece for a new gallery in Minneapolis for their inaugural exhibition about motherhood. There is not a lot else I can share about the gallery at this time, but I do have some progress pics! It is so nice to have a big open space again to make things instead of trying to squeeze one in amongst the others! Here is how they start:

with conduit pipe and the anchors.

draping the felt

I figure at this point I have 20-25 hours still of stitching felt, and then I would like to add hooks and eyes. I am thinking the hardware will go from the ground up on the legs and neck. Or maybe the belly. Stay tuned!

an interview on mnartists.walkerart.org

So my family and I bought a house, moved and are trying to sell our old house. Needless to say it has been a little nuts. Somehow I forgot to post a link to an interview I did with arts writer Sheila Regan on mnartists.org. You can see the interview here. The site as a whole is amazing, and if you don’t know about it, I would spend some time. It is a platform of the Walker Art Center that has a 20 year history of supporting Minnesota artists. It relaunched in 2021 featuring more arts writing and maintains a comprehensive list of both Minnesota and national artist opportunities. If I didn’t live in MN, this is still a site I would check regularly. Thank you Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation for supporting artists!

My favorite thought that speaks directly to the making of this work “to understand that your body is yours, but it’s also something else, took me a long time to come to.”

Thank you Sheila for the great conversation!