tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26756290578902362462024-03-13T14:25:20.207-04:00Glimmering Prize: Mixed Media Collage and Assemblage by Lorraine Reynoldsglimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-64725130399140951242016-02-18T21:33:00.004-05:002016-02-18T21:33:53.432-05:00Exciting News- <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm so excited to announce that I am going to be a part the Artful Gathering Faculty this summer.<br />
Part of the kick off to this event is a blog hop that introduces all of the faculty.<br />
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Check out the Artful Gatherings Website for more information.<br />
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I'm in the final stretches of preparing for the course I will be teaching. I can't wait to tell you all about it. But for now, it has to remain a secret... SSSS.....<br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-28858882992260574822016-01-01T18:33:00.000-05:002016-01-01T18:35:06.539-05:00Song of myself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In preparation for an online class that I am making for the Artful Gathering, I have moved myself into a brighter, more cozy (albeit, smaller) studio space on the main floor of our house. The attic has proven to be too cold in the winter and the stairs too tough on my knees. So, our three-season porch, has become winterized. I have been busy out here for the past few weeks, moving into my new space. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past fall has been a complete whirlwind. I don't know how it got away from me. I taught two classes at Shake Rag Alley in September. Then I headed up to Minneapolis to spend some time vending a Art-Is-You. October and November had me designing and building costumes for NightFires, shipped them back to Vermont. How I missed working on that show. I'm was so excited and grateful when Marianne asked for my help with the dancer costumes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then December crept in. I was immediately off to Asia to work for two weeks with some of our vendors in Korea and Hong Kong. The day job has left little space for making or even thinking of making new art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, finally, with this new space, with all my materials around me- I have become inspired to work on art again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This piece was inspired by a single atom and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. In some ways it reminds me of the Shrine of Invention. There's a bit of an evolution my assemblages have changed some since 2008. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wishing you Peace and Joy was we move forward into 2016.</span></div>
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Yesterday, I visited one such farm. The house and two of the outbuildings were completely unharmed. Looking at them today- you would have no idea that a tornado swept through 12 months ago. But two other barns, only 100 feet away were flatten. The owner is preparing to move and sell her property, but she heard I work with barn board, she invited me to come up and salvage materials for my next project.<br />
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I'm really excited about these materials - the wood is noticeably different than the boards I used in Vermont. Some of the boards have chipped red or white paint on them, several have knot holes and a quite a few have nail heads that will be close to impossible to remove. I'm planning on leveraging these new characteristics. This difference is going to have an interesting effect on the next series of prints that I plan to do.<br />
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I have my work cut out for me today- I need to unload them, wash and sand them before I can even think about working on them. That part is the dirty business, thank god we have a nice cool breeze today- otherwise wearing all my protective gear will be very hot.<br />
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Until next time- Stay creative!<br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-85534766305060455392015-07-16T10:54:00.000-04:002015-07-16T10:54:46.515-04:00UPCOMING CLASSES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven't been to Shake Rag, you are in for a treat. This arts and craft school, resides in a cluster of small historical buildings nestled along a babbling spring. Built along the hill side on 2.5 beautifully landscaped acres these little structures house a Blacksmith shop, Jewelry classes, Fiber Arts and Mixed media programs, youth arts education and a small performing arts stage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll write more about Shake Rag and it's history in an upcoming post: But if you want to wet your appetite <a href="http://www.shakeragalley.com/" target="_blank">click here</a> to check out their website and see what's creatively in-store for you at this magical location.</span></div>
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I had to take a reality check and decide not to go to the Drum Corp show in Dubuque tonight. I had just been to a DCI show in Madison, WI on the 27th and then one in Whitewater, WI on the 5th. The Bluecoats and Phantom where calling me, but the reality of work (I need to catch up after being out of the office for the holiday) and everyday life (eating a decent meal and taking care of the dog) circumvented me driving the 45 mins to Iowa to see yet another competition.<br />
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Dear Reader, I know that's what you are thinking... What the heck is Drum Corps? How the heck can you be addicted to it?<br />
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Oh lord. How do I explain this? This thing, this activit, that I did as a teenager and revel in (perhaps even revere it) as an adult fills me with excitement and joy. Some people have their sports teams, baseball, football, soccer... I have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhU0qbbK4LQ" target="_blank">DCI</a>. From the end of June to the beginning of August, Drum Corps is my obsession. I am a huge fan of this hybrid of music, theater and motion, that is part spectacle, part religion.( I will try to explain that part more at some point) It's all about team work, determination, stamina and joy. Music, moving on a football field. Marching like no half-time show marching band you have ever seen. Brass and drums and color guard silks that bring out emotion and give you goosebumps.... that's what Drum Corps is.<br />
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There are about 25 world class corps in the US. Most of these corps are made up of 150 kids- we're are talking high school and college kids, no older than 21. They dedicate their entire summer to learning musical repertoires and drills, that are incredibly complex and detailed. The Mid-West seems to be the hot spot for Drum Corps International. But these kids tour all summer long, from California to Boston and back again, pushing themselves to give a 110%.<br />
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To quote a friend I recently introduced to Drum Corp," it's a half-time show on steroids."<br />
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This Drum Corp International video, probably does a better job of describing the musical phenomena:<br />
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I had always loved the <a href="http://regiment.org/" target="_blank">Phantom Regiment</a>, <a href="https://www.cavaliers.org/" target="_blank">Cavaliers</a> and <a href="http://www.madisonscoutslive.com/mainsite/" target="_blank">Madison Scout</a>s. Three solid, long standing corps from the mid-west that always performed a great crowd-pleasing show. But, in Madison, at the Drums on Parade show, my heart stopped. The <a href="http://bluecoats.com/" target="_blank">Blue Coats</a> took my breath away, Their show Kinetic Noise brought tears to my eyes. I had never seen them perform before, but have been recruited to the Bluecoats camp. Oh. My. Lord. They are a sight to be seen. They are a force to be reckoned with, And if they don't win the championship in August, it will only be because of internal DCI politics and crappy judges. (There- I've said my piece.)<br />
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Ok - that's just their "warm-up"...<br />
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I'm a horn fanatic. I played brass for the LI Grenadiers (1981-1985, Medford, NY) many, many moons ago, And although, I don't play anymore, it is something that I have the DEEPEST, appreciation for, <br />
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Salut! my friends... if you have never experienced Drum Corp and there's a show near you, seek it out, buy some tickets in the cheap seats, enjoy the summer twilight, music and motion. There's nothing like it... watch out... you might get addicted.<br />
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I've been thinking a lot about Gregory Crewdson lately. Probably because, in these early days of summer, sitting on my front porch, at twilight, with the birds singing their evening song and the distant drone of highway 151 penetrating my head- The atmosphere in Dodgeville, feels so surreal. Maybe it's the campers parked in front yards, or the blue bottle trees, or old '77 Cutlass Supreme, the croaking tree frogs, white boy who thinks his all gansta long-boarding on the sidewalk headed to the bar downtown. Maybe its the stop signs mounted onto electric poles or sweet pink geraniums planted in Harley Davidson milk cans, black silhouetted cowboys or kissing dutch boy and girl lawn ornaments. I don't know. Most probably it is the combination of all these elements that, at this time of day, as the sun is sinking into the horizon, that I feel like I am trapped in a Gregory Crewdson photograph. That sitting here on my porch, watching the worlds around me, that I might just amount to a single layer, that is layer upon another and another and another, that creates a complicated, point of view about Middle-America,<br />
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If you have not seen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtyUkGSS14" target="_blank">Brief Encounters</a>, I recommend it. It is an amazing documentary about a very passionate and driven contemporary American artist. Gregory Crewdson. Crewdon works tirelessly to produce stunning photographs of middle class American, that blend fact and fiction. His desire is to produce an perfect moment and his photographs are flawless. They capture the imperfection of normal life with beauty and grace. (Interesting, right, flawless photos that capture imperfection.)<br />
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Since I have moved to Dodgeville, Wisconsin, I have felt like I have landed in a Gregory Crewdson photograph. So while Crewdson fabricates environments, Dodgeville, unwittingly reflects the artist, in ways he will probably never come to know or appreciate, And I am certain, that if you live in a small rural town like DV, you might understand what I mean. In the twilight, there is something, so beautiful and sublime that it is extremely hard to pin down or identify, It is there in the stillness and the brief moments of activity. It is something intangible- recognizable, yet escapes description. (At least from me,I am too close to it,)<br />
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So, I sit here, listening to the birds, watch this light change and the cars go by, the occasional owner walking their tiny dog, the wind rustle the leaves in the tree and I am reminded of Gregory Crewdson's photographs and the beauty found in the ordinary and the everyday.<br />
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I am thinking about how to capture what I see and feel in this town, A tentative, insecure beauty, It lays in the saturated greens of almost-perfect lawns and the tinge of blue that lingers on simple turn-of-the century white houses that have been removed of any character and completely re-sided with vinyl. It is a history mining that lingers, quietly, in the tiny stone cottages that once belonged to miners. It is a main street that struggles to stay a-float while a new super Walmart takes root up by the new 4 lane highway. It is the mourning dove that calls out to it's mate that it is time to settle down for the night.<br />
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These photos are just sketches of something bigger that I am try to arrive at, Not sure how I will get there. Not sure what it will be...but there is something there, in Gregory Crewdson's Neighborhood.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This piece might have spawned out of one too many nights in the studio watching Outlander. Although not Scottish,the tune has been stuck in my head for weeks now. I even tried watching old 27th Lancers videos to get passed it. As the work began to come together on the table there was no second guessing it. 'o Danny Boy it would be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever the influence, this box assemblage come together rather quickly.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's something different and new about the work that have been coming out of my studio the past few weeks. I'm excited about how things are coming together. More photos (and more work) to come- I promise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Game board, old Victorian scrap, chess piece, gilded picture frame, transparency, rusty metal.</span><br />
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This shop has a flea market, yard sale vibe. We some super cheap prices to boot. The kind of shop that might be featured in Mary Randolph Carter's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Junk-Mary-Randolph-Carter/dp/0670844004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430101961&sr=8-1&keywords=american+junk" target="_blank">American Junk</a>. Carter's book, is an fantastic survey of year's of collecting. She's been doing the "shabby chic" and "flea market decorating" long before it was mainstream and cool. This is one of my favorite books about collecting.<br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-65500069169680152172015-04-19T14:45:00.000-04:002015-04-19T14:45:24.385-04:00Wandering..Prairie Farm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the light here - has a certain quality at the end of the day- when the sun is going down. maybe it is the way it stretches out over the horizon. even a drive home from shopping can be magical.<br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-36874920703558504402015-04-10T20:26:00.001-04:002015-04-10T20:27:19.371-04:00Something left behind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over a year ago- I put this old chair in the back woods of our house in Williston. I wanted to see what time and nature would do. The elements slowly took the color down from vibrant red to this dusty rose. The grass that grew up high around it, pulled down by the snow. Temporality. Nothing lasts forever. Alas, this installation went the way of the dumpster when we rented our house in March. </div>
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-27687890375390892052015-03-14T13:21:00.000-04:002015-03-14T13:21:25.802-04:00Settling in<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't believe the weather here in Wisconsin this week. The temperatures have gone from 17 degrees 10 days ago, to a balmy 65 degrees today. I've swept the front porch, opened the windows and have been basking in the warm sunlight drinking my morning coffee. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting back into the studio after the whirlwind of graduating from VCFA and moving has been challenging, to say the least. There are still plenty of boxes that need to be unpacked. Lots of materials that need to be purged. Things that need to find their right space. My new studio is up on the 3rd floor of this old 4-square we've made home. I'm not crazy about the old paneling, but the finished attic looks out on the neighborhood and offers a quiet place to be by myself and work on my art. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening boxes and shifting through all "the Stuff" has definitely been inspiring. I've finished a few new pieces and mended a few that were damaged in the move. There's new work on the table. My old style mixed with a new sensibility informed by 2 1/2 years of grad school. This is something I just cannot escape-the resonance of crits and reviews by my peers and faculty. The endless defense of the work you make and the "why's" associate with it. It took a long time for me to open a jar of gel medium and start working on assemblage again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, readers, if you will allow me, I am back to provide you further musings on Art, Life and Making. I hope you have been well. It feels like it has been an eternity. I know it sounds cliche, but a new chapter has started. 2015 is going to be a fantastic year! </span><br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-71218947635377328902014-05-19T08:25:00.000-04:002014-05-19T08:25:00.748-04:00Moving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
23 years. That's a long time. We, my husband Jim and I moved to Vermont in 1991. We left the hustle and bustle of New York for a life that was less hectic and a space that was less congested. Now it seems we are going forward into a adventure and moving to Madison, Wisconsin.<br />
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I was recently offered a really wonderful job with a highly respected and outstanding apparel manufacture who is based out of Dodgeville, WI. Dodgeville is about 45 minutes west of Madison. It's a rural farming community with about 2,000 residents if you don't count the employees of Lands' End who make the commute into town on a daily basis. We will end up living somewhere in between. The moving trucks come in August and although that feels like it is at the very end of our (albeit short) summer I know it will be here quicker than I can imagine.<br />
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So now everyday involves so cleaning, organizing and de-stashing. We are having a huge yard sale this weekend. And I have decided to open up my studio and have a special moving sale. I'll be selling many of my earlier works at a discount to move them out so I don't have to pack them. There will be collage, assemblages and prints. I will also be getting rid of a ton of rusty things, ephemera, old picture frames, what ever you need to make your own assemblages. I am not sure how big my studio will be in our new place, so I need to par down as much as possible.<br />
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Jack and I concurred the garage yesterday and one of the the garden sheds the week before. Making my lists and sticking to it as close as I can.<br />
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If you are in the Burlington area, don't be a stranger, come on by and say hi! (or good-bye, I suppose, as it shall be.) There will be lots of bargains and goodies out there on the lawn....<br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-38897645478266924732014-05-12T21:26:00.000-04:002014-05-12T21:26:47.941-04:00NEW Upcoming Classes - June 21-22 2014- at DAVIS STUDIOS- Burlington VT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The symbolism linked to birds goes back to the ancient world, where birds were considered to be a supernatural connection between the gods and men. In many Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, birds can represent immortality. In East Indian and Christian mythologies birds represent the soul. These soul houses are a safe haven for your hopes and dreams. This class will introduce you to the art of assemblage as you learn to construct basic house forms that have relevance and meaning in your own world. You will learn the basics of assemblage construction as well as plot a creative journey through storytelling, personal myth and metaphor. You will take away power new ideas about process and art making.</div>
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-1679196747547022082014-05-04T22:53:00.000-04:002014-05-04T22:53:24.629-04:00Local Art: Mark Lorah at SPACE Gallery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SPACE Gallery on Pine Street has a great new exhibition. I was able to see out Mark Lorah's work during First Friday Art Walk. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really loved Mark's use of color and layering. If you get a chance, definitely check out his work. It's lovely. </span><br />
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"Mark Lorah creates vivid, abstract paintings in oil in his new series of work ‘Alternate Energy’ this May at The Space Gallery. Lorah explores the fraught relationship between structure and material with his bright and graphic work on panels and aluminum. Lorah also incorporates unconventional materials such as tar, wax, and velvet flock to express the necessity of the irrational act, and the nature of existence."</div>
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-85626878007926323422014-04-27T08:17:00.000-04:002014-04-27T08:17:08.058-04:00Inspiration: Judith Scott<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judith Scott</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judith Scott was a internationally recognized "outsider" artist. ( I have a love hate relationship with that word- but that is blog post for another day.) She was born deaf, mute and with Down Syndrome. She was the fraternal twin of Joyce Scott. When Judith was about 7 years old Judith was separated from her twin and her family and sent to live in a state institution for the mentally retard. This separation had a profound effect on this girls. Judith lived in the state system until 1985 when Joyce found her, became her legal guardian and moved her to California where the laws concerning the education and welfare of mentally retarded citizens are more compassionate and inclusive. Judith, then started going to the <a href="http://creativegrowth.org/artists/judith-scott/" target="_blank">Creative Growth Center in Oakland, California</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judith worked with the materials she had around her, fabric, found objects, yarn, thread, etc. Her wrapped pieces show an obsessive, almost complusive need to encaspulate or obscure the objects inside. She was know in the center for stealing other members materials and belongs and then burying them deep into the sculptures with layers and layers of wrapping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find her work so compelling and her story inspiring. I hope to have an opportunity to see some of her pieces in person some day- but for now I will have to be satisfied with what I can view on the web and through Creative Growth's website. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find out more about <a href="http://www.entwinedthebook.com/" target="_blank">Judith at the Judith and Joyce Scott website</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have started a deep cleaning of my studio and storage and uncovered a mass of paper, old photos, and ephemera that just needs a new home. There's no getting around it. I have simply acquired more paper than I will ever be able to use... So that's good news for all you artists out there...It's time for you to get creative!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These packs are full of materials that will get you inspired and chase the last bits of winter away...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've assembled up paper packs and listed them on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/10103807/vintage-paper-pack-ephemera-lot-collage?" target="_blank">Etsy</a>. They are packed with goodies. Full color prints, old cabinet cards, maps, illustrations and more.... All good paper dating from around 1880 to 1980. Although most of the paper is from 1900-1950. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to make this sale even more tempting, I am offering an additional 10% off the packs for my blog readers.... Yes, that means YOU! It's my way of saying thanks to you for hanging in there with me as transition into SPRING and all the changes Glimmering Prize is going to see.</span><br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-81792857792971783352014-01-19T10:25:00.001-05:002014-01-19T10:26:12.999-05:00Pinterest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's become a little addictive to me. I have incorporated this digital collection of images into my studio practice. I probably spend about 15 minutes a day, researching artists or art movements and then pinning images to inspiration boards. I collect and then go back and review them, thinking about why they move me and how the image influences the work. It's an interesting tool and I really enjoy the ease and organization it creates.<br />
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You can follow me on Pinterest and see some of the things that move me. (<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/glimmeringprize/" target="_blank">CLICK</a> here for the link) These are my virtual "Mood" boards, so to speak. The most active board right now is "Canticle". I am in the early planning phase of a new project. These images speak to some of the elements, moods, colors, and themes that I am thinking about. You will see older boards, from my 1st three semesters in Grad School. 4th semester officially starts on Friday. The new board for all the artists I am bound to encounter in the next six months is sitting there anxiously awaiting to be filled.<br />
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I'll be starting a new board later today... for my Etsy shop...<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/glimmeringprize?ref=search_shop_redirect">Glimmering Prize.</a> Yes, don't pass out. I'm in the process of reviving my Esty shop. Check back soon. (Really, I promise. Cross-my-heart-hope-to-die-stick-a needle-in-my-eye promise) That there will be all sorts of goodies listed on Etsy within the next month. Yes, it is a new year and I have to clean out my studio to make room for this huge new project I am doing. (Did i say it was huge? It's going to be huge.)<br />
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So, if you are looking for assemblage salvage, old books, little bits of this and that, or you just want a good deal on some artwork, stay tuned. It's going to be an EPIC sale. Plus, for you insiders and faithful readers, there will be a very special discount. You don't want to miss it.<br />
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Hope you are doing well. Keep the faith and stay creative!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, after a great response to these books in the gallery and at my 3rd semester residency at VCFA, where I showed an additional 50 piled directly on the floor, I am preparing to continue the cementing process. It is a process that is meditative and restorative, completely pared down and simplified compared to anything that I have done in the past. There will be more of this to come... I promise you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, now that I am home, back from my 10 day intensive at VCFA. Completely critiqued and ready to move forward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another semester has officially started and the text books and reading assignments have started to pile in. Wait to you hear all about what I am writing about this semester.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully, readers you are still there and willing to hear all about the research I will be doing this term. And, of course I will keep you updated on all the art... as it is being made. Successes and failures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I leave you with a link to video, that I just finished edited last week. It's called, Dreamwalking. This is the result of my husband gifting me a new computer and a FLIP camera. Hmmm... and to come completely transparent, most of the editing happened while I was sick in bed with a 101 degree temperature. </span><br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-71139137642938518262013-04-24T21:02:00.002-04:002013-04-24T21:02:23.400-04:00Apparitional Experience COMING TO: Vintage Inspired Marketplace: FRIDAY: May 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A majority of the photographs were taken during the fall when I was out and about in the state of VT photographing crumbling remains of buildings and farms. This process was featured in the Burlington Free Press in October of 2014. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">These photographs are peaceful, silent, still, resigned forms of evidence. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They are monuments. They are tombstones.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They serve as documentation of "what was." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On the surface they are images of crumbling buildings but they speak to something else. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They point to the thing that is missing. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">These abandoned spaces are without human habitation. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Beyond the images of decay and abandonment there is something there that we can't quite define. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Its untraceable. Indistinguishable.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The place between seeing and knowing is imprecise and extremely hard to nail down. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It is a location in the mind that is only mapped by the memory artist. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It can be as elusive as a phantom that comes and goes into view like a fog. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It resides in the dark corners of our cellars and the cobwebs of our attics. It finds refuge in the gaps of our memory and solace in our childhood reminiscence. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We find the spirits of the past lingering in the landscapes of trauma deeply rooted with a permanence of the ground that has reclaimed it. Crumbling buildings and ancient estates serve as sanctuary for the forgotten, the lost, and the unclaimed. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The souls who haunt our present are constant reminders of a past we cannot escape. We are intertwined with these beings as they are a symbol of our own mortality and our need for our own personal histories to persist in the memories of others.</span></div>
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-89508901556257665632013-03-27T23:17:00.000-04:002013-03-27T23:17:51.994-04:00NEW WORK: LITTLE STORIES: 2nd Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This afternoon I boxed up 80 prints to send to the <a href="http://twistartgallery.com/" target="_blank">TWIST gallery in Nashville, TN. </a>I have a solo show that it opening there next weekend. I am so excited and honored to be in this space. It's a great space and I am looking forward to visiting later next month.</span></div>
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-62742189556299798002013-03-12T20:47:00.000-04:002013-03-12T20:50:46.487-04:00class schedule: work in progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This year I have a very limited teaching schedule. Last month I taught a fantastic group of women at Vintage Inspired Marketplace. we worked on altered books and had a great time making altered book. Mary and I are working on putting together another class for May or June, probably another offering of the Doll Shrine class I taught at Art-Is-You in October.<br />
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The only other class this year is down on the New Jersey shore at <a href="http://lemoncholys.blogspot.com/2012/12/soul-houses-with-guest-artist-lorraine.html" target="_blank">Kecia Deveney'</a>s studio Lemoncholy. <br />
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-87803271697498382922013-01-01T19:15:00.000-05:002013-01-01T19:15:33.062-05:00HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Here's some great news to start off 2013!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope everyone had the most blessed of holidays. Things here at Casa Reynolds have been a little hectic lately. Extra time seems to be elusive these days. I'm trying to snag up as much time as I can with the kiddos while they are on vacation and catch up with some household chores. My final paper of the semester has magically made it's way off my computer and onto my professor's cyber desktop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hot topic for 2013 is <i>where</i> am I teaching. I had to scale back a ton of things in my life to make room for graduate school. Unfortunately, traveling to far-off destinations to teach workshops was one of those activities. Don't worry, it's only a hiatus, but this year's class schedule is very limited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right now, as it stands, I am only teaching in two locations:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This winter here in VT and in July in New Jersey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both locations have very limited space, so if you are really dying to take a class with me, don't delay. Sign up early. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please contact Mary @ Vintage Inspired to sign up for this class</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lemoncholys.blogspot.com/2012/12/soul-houses-with-guest-artist-lorraine.html" target="_blank">Lemoncholy Studio</a> click the PAYPAL link at the bottom of the page to register</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Email <a href="mailto:keeshagirl4@aol.com" target="_blank">Kecia Deveney</a> for more info </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully, that catches us up a little. I know it's been a while. Check back soon for other new interesting happenings in 2013. I'm working on a book and some new art projects and there's a little giveaway coming up soon... and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a big sale... yes, a sale on all current assemblages coming for in a few weeks to celebrate my birthday!</span></div>
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glimmering prizehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257408519835888555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2675629057890236246.post-52564071685377323082012-11-15T21:21:00.000-05:002012-11-15T21:21:00.134-05:00Vanishing Vermont: Granville Revisted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alright, these photos are from Granville, NY NOT Granville, VT. Which, as discussed in a previous post is a town just on the other side of the river from VT, so I am going to include these pictures in the Vanishing Vermont, but yes, for all intensive purposes this IS NOT technically Vermont. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I know I said I would post more photos of the quarry first, but to tell the truth, I started sorting those files and skimmed across the shots I took of this location, not far from the Rose Inn. I have been playing with the idea of building a miniature house out of reclaimed wood, I wanted to look at internal building structures so I came back to this series of photos. And I sort of, got absorbed in this place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After about an hour, I was half way through all the shots, so I went for broke and edited them all. There's no color playing here or black and white. I am leaving you with what strikes me the most. The fact that this house is in partial demolition. And, according to a local, my friend I was driving around the area with, it has been in this state for QUITE a while. I took these photos in early September, right before the leaves started to turn color. The day was absolutely perfect, blue skies and warm. Which is such a striking contrast to the state of the building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am left thinking about, what the owner is planning on doing with the site. Why they pulled all the siding off the face, why the took out an entire wall? The post and beam construction is so lovely, especially with the slat and plaster walls showing through. The house across the street was built in 1812, so it makes me wonder when this house was erected. Could it be able the same time? Maybe a little earlier? Who knows. On the bright and blue sky day that we visited this location, not a single ghost passed by to tell us their story or for that matter did any one in town stop to ask why I was taking photographs of this crumbling structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With out a history told to us, what do we know about the place? Are there clues that fill us in. Maybe. Can we ever really know what secrets lay sleeping behind this walls. Even as the skeleton of the place is exposed as severely as this? Probably not... Ours, perhaps, is only to ponder, why. What would you think if you drove by this everyday on your way to work or school. Would it make you stop and wonder why? Or would you ignore it and think, what an eye sore. Part of me thinks that it is so incredibly tragic that all the labor, time, energy and resources, that went into building this home is being nullified. But even on top of that, this sanctuary of domestic life that has probably seen 200 years of families live and die here is been torn apart. Where is the history of those people? What is left of their stories? Certainly, at some point, not their old home. Their story will lay wasting in a pile of rubble and broken bits, to be scooped up and added to a landfill. </span><br />
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