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The Marriage of Two Posts for Gulf Coast Aid
This is where two posts meet. I could have easily found a quick mention for Friday and included my weekly Kick Start your Weekend music but I’m dealing with a conundrum and in also trying to find something to write for my other weekly blog post, Slipcovers for your Walls, I realized as I was searching for this one, that in thinking through this creative process, I found the answer to both. I’ve already posted this on the casartblog but here it is with more thought process. I keep list of topics to write on and my favorite always comes back to the creative process. It is how artwork begins…
Pop-Ups Plus
I recently saw notice for and exhibition called, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn, about pop-up books at The National Museum of American History. I’ve always enjoyed pop-up books, so I hope I can see this. The exhibit contains book from the Smithsonian Institutions’ Library’s Here’s the NMAH’s quite fascinating video on the subject and how involved a pop-up project may be. I have an even greater appreciation of a pop-up book after watching this. It’s truly a work of art and a paper engineering and folding feat. If you’d like to try a more simple book construction, check out the Altered Book Basics, as a project from a…
Interesting June 2010 Art Exhibits
Breaking from my backlog of murals to quickly post a list of a few interesting exhibits: 1) Art Drawings from Cancer Diagnosis by the late Alex Todorovich — Joan Hisaoka Gallery on U Street, DC –Although, sadly, I never got around to seeing this (just ended on June 19), I thought it was a wonderful take on remaining positive while in the state of deep reflective thinking when we are dealt with such circumstances. — For some reason her work reminds me of Marga Hayes Ingram with it’s symbolism. 2) Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection — Smithsonian Castle, DC through October 11 –This one I want to see…
