“Just a doodle” was requested by the Drawing Challenge today. Here you go:
Day 18 of the Drawing Challenge
elsewhere residency
Residency in review: part 5
I wanted to share with you a picture of some of the pillows I sewed to look like books for the library cart.
Along with the pillows I made a silkscreen in the same manner I’ve discussed before on the blog. The design was inspired by a page from a book in the elsewhere library that I have re-located to live on the cart and be read by kids visiting the museum.
I printed the design on some of the book pillows as either pages or covers.
While I was at it I also printed a tote-bag:
Residency in review: part 4
Below are some close-ups of the puppets I made as part of my library cart. I asked the staff at elsewhere if they were an animal, what would it be and then made an animal-puppet version of them. The results were: a badger, a duck, a turtle, a mouse, an owl and a one-eyed brontosaurus:
Residency in review: part 3
Here is the sewing workshop at elsewhere, where I spent a lot of time. Can you find me in the picture?
This is the newly painted cart with my sewn puppet-theatre curtains:
and here are the puppets I made sitting on the newly-sewn bench cushion. We have a mouse, a duck, a turtle, an owl, a badger and a one-eyed brontosaurus – in that order.
Residency in review: part two
Here are some pictures from my first week at elsewhere: my artist talk and project proposal – in that order.
Residency in review:
It was a wonderful five weeks in Greensboro, NC!
I got caught up in the flow and didn’t post as much as I anticipated so I think I’ll take this week to share little snippets from my residency.
Let’s start with a few pics of a mural Zada Tagli was working on at the Greensboro IRC (The Interactive Resource Center: assists people who are homeless, recently homeless or facing homelessness reconnect with their own lives and with the community at large.)
Here are some images from the first day of work on the mural – the day that I worked with her.
My project, the boss and bear claws – aka the best week ever.
Hi folks!
This past week at Elsewhere whizzed by! My project is a re-invention of the library cart! This little nook on wheels is a part of a “traveling menagerie” (see here). But its home is in the ceiling-high living library of elsewhere. It has a puppet theatre, shelves for books and a bench with cushions for lounging. A seriously day-dream gem of a spot!
Here are some pictures of the cart before I began my work:
So, I’m imagining Elsewhere as an indoor park, which it really is in so many ways. I’m drawing upon my past as a park guide, interpreter and naturalist and drawing upon the wild aspects in elsewhere to make this space sing.
My first step was to strip it of the miscellaneous fabric and pictures that were haphazardly fastened to it, fill its nicks with putty and sand it down with help from the building curator, tool-wielding diva extraordinaire Jen.
This is where I have to take a moment to tell you I’m wearing an inside-out Bruce Springsteen t-shirt that I bought at his recent concert in Greensboro. That’s right folks. I saw the boss in concert and my life is now complete. (Mother, my shirt is inside out on purpose, to protect it from getting paint on it of course.)
Meanwhile I’m collecting books and items from elsewhere’s collection for display and contextualization on my cart.
It’s been a great week and I’m happy to say It only got better when I came to use the internet at the Green Bean coffee shop. Here I discovered they have bear claw pastries – quite a favorite treat of mine from Saturdays at the farmers’ Market growing up.
Have a happy Monday everyone!
