At the end of the day,
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Showing posts with label mixed media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mixed media. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Monday, November 2, 2020
Auction for two 'great things' ...
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent Van Gogh
I have contributed my art to two auction which are both live at this time.
Here are the pieces that I have donated, and links to
the auctions and the stories behind each fundraiser.
Attleboro Arts Museum's 2020’s
Benefit Art Auction:
https://attleboroartsmuseum.org
Auction runs: Oct 06, 2020 10:00AM EDT to Nov 07, 2020 12:00PM EST
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| ' a little cup of heaven ...' Height: 11.50, Width: 9.50, Depth: 1.25 |
This mixed-media coffee cup is acrylic on canvas with the addition of the corrugated cardboard (a coffee cup holder) and the paper from a sewing pattern.
Virginia Fitzgerald is a mixed media artist who works in sculpture, installation, fiber arts, painting, photography and collage. She works & lives in Natick, MA with her two amazing daughters in a house full of love and creativity. Her work can be found in many private collections throughout the country. Her sculpture, "dear jeff ..." is in the permanent collection at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, NYC, NY. Virginia is a champion of creativity and believes that everyone is an artist.
Please click the following link to see our terms & conditions and pick-up/shipping details.
A creative mask auction to benefit the Kimberly & Andy Fund.
On Tuesday, August 18th, Kimberly and her husband Andy were out for their routine evening stroll near downtown Natick when a blue pickup truck jumped the curb and ran them over, driving them into a wooden fence. A piece of the wood from from the fence impaled Kimberly through the chest. In haste to flee the scene, the driver of the truck backed over Kimberly, crushing both of her legs, and took off at a high rate of speed. ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
introducing the fairylandproject to bring some magic and wonder to us all ...
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
introducing a quarantine activity for all, the fairylandproject!! My neighbor Michele and I dreamt up this idea while walking in the woods.
As moms we really feel for all those parents with small children that don't have playgrounds or playdates to help fill these quarantine days. We thought that the chance to spot a fairy might help get young ones excited to go on a walk in the woods.
It is a project for all and a 'social distance' project. And it is important to remember that there is no right or wrong way to participate, although we hope that everyone will be mindful about what materials they are placing in the wildness. Be considerate of materials that might harm local wildlife!!
The idea of the fairylandproject is that anyone can make a fairy (any kind of fairy you want) and then go place it in your local woods or an area that a small child (or anyone) could spy it. This is not a location specific project!! anyone can make a fairy and place it in a wooded area! We have started it here, in the Natick woods, but anyone can do it anywhere!! WE also gave them names but that is not necessary - though if you want, we just wrote on white peddles with a sharpie!
We have started a FB group just so that there would a place where people could learn about the project. Also people can share the project and post, if they want, a picture of their fairy and their fairy's location, and/or share any fairy-making ideas or suggestions, and/or post pictures of found fairies.
This project is about spreading some magic and wonder during this extraordinary chapter in our global history.
We have started a FB group just so that there would a place where people could learn about the project. Also people can share the project and post, if they want, a picture of their fairy and their fairy's location, and/or share any fairy-making ideas or suggestions, and/or post pictures of found fairies.
This project is about spreading some magic and wonder during this extraordinary chapter in our global history.
Our wish that this project will bring a bit of
magic and wonder to us all
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
Embrace the rain as it brings flowers ...
Rain falls and the flowers bloom.
No rain, they wither up.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Remember, be gentle with yourself ...
“Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars.
In the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.”
Max Ehrmann
As we wade further into knowledge of this virus and adjust to what is now our new normal, staying in place, I believe it is very important to remind ourselves to be gentle with ourselves and those that you are quarantined with. This is an extremely taxing time for everyone, so lets remember to be gentle!!
be well and peace ~
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Find the peace of wild things ...
A favorite poem of mine and one that resonates during this time of unease ...
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
peace and be well!!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
today take a walk in the sunshine or at least get out into the fresh air
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.
Happy St. Patrick's Day
And may I strongly suggest
a walk in the sunshine or at least in the fresh air
❤️
We have definitely entered a most bizarre chapter of our lives here on planet earth and as the waves of anxiety and panic surge around, I am feeling a strong pull to counter such fears with positive and inspirational messages.
So I hope to be posting here more often, unless I get wigged out by social media again 😂
peace and be well!!
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Friday, April 5, 2019
may this dress remind us to seize the day ...
a short bio and link to read more:
Grace Hopper
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Grace Hopper
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
May this dress remind us of our common sense ...
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Coretta Scott King
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and
a colossal failure of common sense.
Coretta Scott King
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
may this dress remind us to stand tall and live our lives ...
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bell hooks, a.k.a. Gloria Jean Watkins
http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com
I will not have my life narrowed down.
I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or
to someone else's ignorance.
bell hooks, American author and activist
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
may this dress remind us to be bravery, not perfection ...
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| this art is avaiable at Uni-T at the Natick Mall |
I highly recommend watching this video:
below is a short bio and links to read more:
Reshma Saujani
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. With their 7-week Summer Immersion Program, 2-week specialized Campus Program, after school Clubs, and a 13-book New York Times best-selling series, Girls Who Code is leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. By the end of the 2018 academic year, Girls Who Code will have reached over 90,000 girls in all 50 states and several US territories. Girls Who Code alumni are choosing to major in CS, or related fields, at a rate 15 times the national average; Black and Latina alumni are choosing to major in CS or related fields at a rate 16 times the national average.
https://reshmasaujani.com/about/
Reshma Saujani (born November 18, 1975) is an American lawyer and politician. She is the founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code. She was previously the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate.[2] Saujani lost the 2010 Democratic primary (19%-81%) for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 14th congressional district against incumbent Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.[3]Saujani was the first Indian-American woman (and the first South Asian American woman) to run for Congress.[4] She ran as a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate in 2013, coming third in the primary.[5][6]
Saujani founded "South Asians for Kerry" during the 2004 presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshma_Saujani
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
may this dress remind us to be content in not knowing ...
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Margaret Drabble
“When nothing is sure,
everything is possible.”
Margaret Drabble
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Sunday, March 24, 2019
May this dress remind us to notice our surroundings ...
Elizabeth Murray is one of my FAVORITE artists!
"I paint about the things that surround me," Murray said, "things that I pick up and handle every day. That’s what art is. Art is an epiphany in a coffee cup."
Elizabeth Murray
below is a short bio and links to read more:
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
this part of Murray's bio is from Day of the Artist
https://dayoftheartist.com/2014/04/08/day-ninety-eight-elizabeth-murray-art-is-an-epiphany-in-a-coffee-cup/
"I paint about the things that surround me," Murray said, "things that I pick up and handle every day. That’s what art is. Art is an epiphany in a coffee cup." Just such a coffee cup, with its contents spilling forth, appears in the appropriately entitled Yikes. Standing out from the wall in relief, the ordinariness of this familiar situation is dramatized by the monumental size of the seemingly broken canvases that resist fitting back together again. Murray said that she found the process of splintering the conventional picture plane "so psychologically satisfying because I finally realized the meaning of shattering and of putting an image inside the shattered parts that would make them whole again."
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79519Elizabeth Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases.
In 1967, Murray moved to New York City. She first exhibited in 1971 in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition. One of her first mature works included "Children Meeting," 1978 (now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines.[7] She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings.[8]
Biography is from wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Murray_(artist)
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Saturday, March 23, 2019
May this dress remind us to be BRAVE like Ruby Bridges!!
Ruby Bridge's story has blown me away!! <3
Ruby Bridges was the oldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.[3] As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings,[4] though she also enjoyed playing jump rope, softball and climbing trees.[5] When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Ruby was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father was hesitant.[6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
Another informative and entertaining write-up about Ruby Bridges:
Because of Them We Can®
Another good read about Ruby:
At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.
MLA - Michals, Debra. "Ruby Bridges." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2015. Date accessed. Chicago - Michals, Debra. "Ruby Bridges." National Women's History Museum." 2015. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruby-bridges.
Racism is a grown-up disease and
we must stop using our children to spread it.
Ruby Bridges
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