I am so thrilled to be teaching a doll-making workshop at Arrowmont this November for week. The Doll as Storyteller 11/3 - 11/9/19. Would love to have you there!
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Morris Graves Museum of Art Exhibition
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So happy to have had Nicole Jean Hill photograph my exhibit at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Humboldt county last week. I got images just in time to apply for a mid-career fellowship. I didn’t install the work for this exhibition, and was a little uncertain about the configuration of the “Spread” masses on the wall. When I last installed this piece, there was no space between shapes and far less of the guts spilling out from them, but I have come around. I still want to make ten times the amount there currently are for an installation. I want them oozing off the wall!
And here is one of the new dolls. It was funny to see it up with some of the original ones and how the color palette has changed. I just love this measuring tape.
Still waiting to here on one of my proposals, and that will probably determine what I decide to focus on this next year. Four more days. Fingers crossed.
This beaver still needs a tail....
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I feel like I am making progress. I don't know if it is fast enough...I am installing my exhibition "Pulling Stitches" at Hutchinson Center for the Arts on June 4. This is the third of nine figures whose got his limbs attached...and all of the tails are still pretty raw. But I am getting there.
Exhibition opening today...
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"MO: Layered" opens today in NYC! I am so excited to be included with this wonderful group of artists....if you are in the city, please check it out.
I wish I had a donkey like this when I was growing up....
I had a pony named "Hot Shot" that was nearly the same color. Then I graduated to a spiteful Appaloosa, and finally to a Quarter horse. My mom now has a mother/daughter donkey duo that I have yet to meet. They just have the greatest ears and kindest eyes.
A Rhinoceros has taken up residence....
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In my studio along with some other little critters. Sometimes I think my animals can get a little too similar in body shape to my sewing ladies. I am so glad this guy is a meaty no neck. And I am just noticing that all my animals lean to the left....maybe because I am right handed?
Sculpting animal critters....
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I just adore sloths. Do you know they do a dance to poop? Sometimes I feel like a little boogie is needed to get things moving.
His left eye can move in the socket, and sometimes he just looks so confused. Or high. I can't decide if I should let it be. It might be a good look for a sloth.
new little one...
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SoI have been working on little silly figure that wasn't supposed to take me long, but did, I am making her a whole bunch of kitchen dishes and cutlery. I"m not sure why, just felt like she needed them.
The eyelashes and rain boots are my favorite part.