Another big Texas snowstorm - in MARCH!

What a snowy winter we've had. This one was on the first day of spring. Photos are of my frontyard and backyard. I took them on the morning I left for Ruidoso, New Mexico. What an exciting first hour of driving I had!

Get Your Head In The Clouds

Here are images of my Get Your Head In The Clouds art piece that I created as one of my projects for being artist of the month in March for the Dallas Museum of Art. It was made using those body scrub things, several strings of lights and foam coreboard. The pictures show it only partially completed and with the photos added. Participants created imaginative hats and had their photos taken. Headshots only. Then they learned how to tranfer their images over onto clear packing tape and these pictures of them were then pinned in the cloud.

So everyone got their "head in the cloud". I wanted to impress upon participants the creative benefits of taking time to play (hat making) and dream (Head in the clouds). It really worked - we all had a blast and a good crowd of participants of all ages made crazy hats using flower arrangement materials, which symbolized growing creatively - get it? wink wink

Daughter Lily with her boyfriend Andrew

Here is Lily with Andrew on Valentines Day. She is wearing one of the headbands I made using recycled wool from old sweaters.

I LOVE working with recycled wool. There are several new directions I want to go with it in the near future. Stay posted!

New Scrabble game inspired art...

Here is a new art work I made with recycled items.

I used an old scrabble game and images from a 1940's childrens picture encyclopedia. So when someone wants to literally "spin a tale", they can spin the board, and if it lands on the "legend" side, they can try to link an image to a legend they know.

Meet Lesli Robertson

She is an awesome artist who dreamed up, created, and installed one of the best interactive art activities I've ever seen. Children and adults get to create together marvelous woven walls that once completed, reflect words projected from the ceiling.

Totally cool!

Here is a brief bio about Lesli and a link to her website.
Lesli Robertson

Lesli Robertson is a textile artist by training, but in her creative process often combines materials that are a sharp contrast to the usual fibers. An example would be the use of concrete, silk and journaling. Lesli also researches and connects communities of people around the use of a particular material such as her recent work with artists from Uganda. http://www.leslirobertson.com/

Meet Lesli

Yes, I'm a Bad, BAD Blogger!

It is easy to get behind blogging. Really easy. Especially after I started using Facebook.

Uffdah.

I'm going to try an improve.