Project Dollhouse 2009

The first term of grad school is over! Hooray! Now it's time to blog! I thought it would be nice to show a little of the blood, sweat, and tears that go into making, or re-making, a dollhouse. Take THAT art school!
Project Dollhouse 2009 starts with a dollhouse my father constructed over 30 years ago. That might seem like a long time ago, but they had indoor electricity in dollhouses back in those days already. The next generation-my nieces- were the lucky recipients of the renovated dollhouse this Christmas.
Here are some before, during and after pictures of the remake. And by the way...it turns out removing wallpaper is just as much of a pain in the butt in miniature.

Art in Motion

I'm sharing a work in progress tonight with a group. This is another piece that includes torn pieces of my writing with winding "wires" of writing. The problem is that there's no good way to transport it. In she goes to the bag! She, the sculpture, will be going downtown and back today inside my backpack. Wish her luck!

Get your craft (and jam) on!

The holidays are here! Pictured here are images from the pre-holiday craft fair I participated in this past November. I am now showing them on-line because the next Holiday Craft Fair will be this Friday, December 4th, the First Friday, at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Yahoo! Most of you readers out there know that I think the Old Town School is the bee's knees. But the school will be even greater with its First Friday happenings this week. Along with other crafty types, I will be selling my art prints and cards while folky music is happening all around us. Bliss!
See you at school on Friday! (4544 N. Lincoln Ave.-near Western Brown line stop.)
We'll be in the lobby from 6pm 'til at least 9pm.




Now if you can't make it, I have updated some art items over at my etsy site...just in time for holiday gift giving. Sorry if this blog post is really commercial...I will do something non-consumable in my next post. Promise.