May in St Louis

Beautiful city full of history, architecture, soul and art everywhere...

Before taking off

 Late March, just days before taking off to Buenos Aires...another treat for the Madison WRAP workshop and the surprise of another award.



Untitled

Making of Untitled during Ryan Myers workshop last summer

Then, time for a whole weekend of MAOAS at Meredith's



Working with Meredith is always fun

Next day a long trip to land in Mi Buenos Aires querido...



This weekend: Open Art Studios

We'll be working at Meredith's Saturday and Sunday. Lots of new work from both of us...here is a little peak

El Rey del Cafe con Leche

Yes, it's a cup and saucer

In progress...last summer during a workshop at Bethel with Ryan Myers

Painting with underglazes

El rey del Cafe con Leche at Overture Center

Breaking free



Studio photograph of Houdini, c. 1905.
Harvard Theatre Collection,
Houghton Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Houdini: Art and Magic traveling show opened Friday in  Madison at the MMOCA. In so many ways Houdini represented and still represents the possibility of escaping limitations  even the ones we might create for ourselves. Empowering, inspiring and liberating.

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Jane Hammond (American, born 1950)
Untitled (221,181,275,156,227), 1991–92
Oil on canvas
76 x 70 in. (193 x 177.8 cm)
Private collection

My favorite : Jane Hammond's piece. Also empowering, inspiring and liberating



Tierra y Libertad! Revolution and the Modernist Mexican Print, also shown at the MMOCA, showing through a collection of prints the idea of breaking free from a different perspective.

Rufino Tamayo, Zapatista, 1925.
Linoleum cut. 10 x 7 ½ inches.
Collection of the MMOCA

José Guadalupe Posada, Los Siete Vicios, date unknown.
Zinc etching, 8¾ x 9-3/8 inches.
Collection of the MMOCA

Diego Rivera, Escuela al aire libre, 1932.
Lithograph, 15-11/16 x 21½ inches.
Collection of the MMOCA

Topping off the weekend with The Artist, the movie directed by Michel Hazanavicius.
An inspiring story about a man that was able to move on from the past and with help, find his voice and break free from his own limitations.

Still of Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in The Artist

One new brand year

2012 Cover Returned Peace Corps International Calendar

A bowl of fresh new days to savor bit by bit...