Last spring I wrote a grant entitled “Realizing Sophia.”  I didn’t get the grant but I did win the attention of some Lehigh campus organizations and they encouraged me to organize a series of visual art events while coordinating with the Women’s Studies department and Women’s Center programming.  Needless to say, it’s exciting and daunting [...]

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So I have been absent on the blog for so long it seems and not for the reason that I don’t love you, sweet readers; it seems I am a slave to grading student work.  Furthermore, in being  slave to grading, my students are feeling a bit like I’m a task master- maybe I am [...]

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I mentioned the other day that an exhibition that Sergio and Juan curated was opening in Zaragoza on Friday night.  Sergio was nice enough to send pictures!  I am told that it was well attended… check out all the people standing out front! It looks like it is a beautiful building!  Sergio and a friend [...]

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I think one of the things many “non-artists” don’t know is how much we throw away… many artists discard far more than what ever shows up in a gallery. Many of my friends can validate that. After all the past weeks’ hoopla in the studio… I ended up tossing much of what I made and [...]

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OK so there are days where I know what I’m going to write about and then there are days that I don’t… this happens to be one of those days where the latter is true.  I seem to be heading into frantic normalcy- school has started and I’m back into the routine of the studio [...]

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I don’t know… sometimes making work is really hard and sometimes it’s really easy.  I mean- as an artist, our job is to communicate visually whether it’s an event in time, a concept we care about, or to stretch one’s imagination.  As artists we develop and essentially invent a language unique to us and we [...]

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This week the lottery was 250 million smackers… I played it like it was my job and perhaps I have been “let go” because the paycheck never rolled in.  I’m sure you all realize that being an artist has it’s romance.  Everyone pictures the bohemian lifestyle full of interesting characters, invigorating conversations and art work [...]

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Sometimes when you take yourself so far out of your routine, you suffer from a major freak out in getting back into the swing of things.  It’s a little frustrating.  So well, this week I have been really trying to get myself back on track and move my studio work forward.  This has been a [...]

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Well for those of you who know me, you might have heard that I have a little bit of a Pride and Prejudice problem…  And for those of you on Facebook, you also might have heard that instead of a glamorous day at home vacuuming and washing my floors, I opted to head to the [...]

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