NEWS AND EVENTS

General News
When I last updated this site I wrote about meandering paths that constantly reveal new views full of possibilities. From my earlier career designing interiors and objects others would make to making things myself, from opportunities to learn to opportunities to teach and back again to learning, from large scale design of spaces to intimately scaled jewelry, expanded, now, to architecturally scaled sculpture, my path has wound around - and someone seems to have connected it to a runaway treadmill while I wasn’t looking – time goes by so fast.

The jewelry work and the sculptural work are beginning to inform each other. Last spring, while working on a sculpture proposal for an arboretum, I began to focus more closely and consciously on inspirations from nature. Imagery relating to water, the play of light and natural, uncut gems have always been part of my work and inspiration. This particular project, in concert with the time I have been spending in rural Maine and Canada, gave me a chance to look at trees and lichen, at natural patterns of growth that appear over and over again from material to material. Those observations spurred a very rich exploration into organic growth and interpretation into metal.

Much of my experimentation in this area has been on the larger, sculptural scale. Some of it was shown in NY galleries this winter. The project won me an artists’ residency in Maine where I could work my thoughts out through my hands for 6 weeks. As usual, research and questions yielded some answers and more questions.

I am attacking those questions as they apply to jewelry right now. I am also considering their application in the larger worldview that any engagement with nature brings. I am entranced by the variety and beauty of trees, tree bark, leaves, etc. As my attention increases, so does my awareness of how threatened that variety is and how much of the world I have taken for granted all my life has already disappeared.

My experiences under the auspices of Projeto Axe in Brazil, teaching art to the children who live on the streets of Salvador, da Bahia, and thereby teaching them that they can have control of their own futures, gave much more meaning to whatever skills I have, to whatever objects I create. I carry those lessons with me every day. I hope to find ways of continuing that kind of collaboration with people and organizations whose primary purpose is to repair the world.

In 2007, I was able to see many of you at the Craft and Jewelry Shows I attended in the fall and winter. Some of you came to the studio. I hope to see you all in 2008.

And for those of you who can’t wait, please call or email – private viewings are often the most fun.

Following are a few of the highlights of 2007 (and 2008, so far):

Artist Residency - Robert M. MacNamara Foundation

Study with Katharine Cobey, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

JEWELRY SHOWS
Whitney Abrams Gallery
The Walters Museum of Art
Crafts Park Avenue
Morristown Crafts Market

PUBLICATIONS
500 Earrings, Lark Books

FINE ART EXHIBITIONS
"Wired", Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, NY, NY,

"Small Rays of Hope", Rhonda Schaller Gallery, NY, NY

"The Sunroom Project" Finalist, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY

31st Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, STAC, Smithtown, NY

10th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Words Within”, WCA, NY, NY & Boston, MA

“Adam's Rib, Eve's Air in Her Hair”, SOHO20 Gallery Chelsea, NY, NY

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