Even though it’s not unusual to spy a blimp in the sky over Akron (one of Goodyear’s three blimps is docked at Wingfoot Lake outside of the city), some of us still have to stop and take a long look as it passes overhead. There is just something cheerful about its balloon-like shape and leisurely pace!
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While the headline in Sunday’s Akron Beacon Journal, Akron group creates high-caliber show, promised a favorable review, the opening paragraphs delivered:
“It’s beginning to look like Artists of Rubber City is the go-to group for serious contemporary artists in the Akron area.
In its current exhibit, Artists of Rubber City 18th Annual Juried Show at Mocha Maiden through June 13, the group demonstrates that it has the means, the intent and the will to attract and display some of the most interesting new work being done hereabouts. . .
With this exhibit, Artists of Rubber City has proven that it can attract and nurture multiple artists . . . And with this show, the organization demonstrates that Akron truly has an art scene and community worthy of the name.”
Dorothy Shinn, Beacon Journal art and architecture critic
The full text of the article, including detailed commentary on the artwork, artists and awards, is available here for seven days.
As motivation to clean and organize there is nothing quite like sending out open studio invitations! For years I have opened the studio in May and each time I’ve felt just a bit deceitful: the remaining 364 days of the year the word orderly could not be used to describe the space. How refreshing it is, though, to sweep out the clutter and spend a spring day with friends and family, fellow artists and patrons!
Pictured above is studio b with the desk from the studio of artist Claire Cressler . The small chair in the background, pictured again below, was also Claire’s - delightful in that it has a secret drawer beneath the seat (not so secret anymore). I like to think that furniture can contain the spirit of its previous owner and that Claire would be happy to know these pieces will continue to live with an artist.
The opening reception Saturday culminated a crazy week of preparation for the annual juried show presented by Artists of Rubber City. Last Monday 154 entries were dropped off at Mocha Maiden Gallery in downtown Akron. Tuesday the show was chosen by Darice Polo, Assistant Professor, Kent State University School of Art, who juried the work and judged for awards. By Saturday the exhibit of 77 pieces by 45 area artists was installed, labeled and open to the public!
Once again, members volunteered their time and expertise to make this show possible and, once again, everyone did a fantastic job!
The USPS phrasing is great: returned for better address?
Excuses abound. Working on the Artists of Rubber City 18th Annual Juried Show, which opens tomorrow, at the same time preparations are underway for my open studio (the day after tomorrow) left me oblivious to the fact that any address would be better than the invisible one on the postcard!
Here are two versions of the start of a series of tree prints inspired by Celtic lunar signs as presented in the book, The Celtic Lunar Zodiac by Helena Paterson. A friend gave me this beautifully illustrated volume last year knowing that I would eventually incorporate some of the tree symbolism into my artwork.
The ash seemed the logical beginning: not only does it introduce the alphabet, it is the tree of the last month of winter and the month of Isaac’s birth.
