My desire to create this Civil Rights Collage 1 -Desegregation has been a long time in the process of my thoughts. For eight years I thought in inner city public schools. For the first time I was a minority in predominately African-American elementary schools. Because the schools had such a low enrollment, I was required […]
Recycled Bottle Caps Collage Painting Pa...
My progress with the recycled bottle caps part 2 Collage Painting was delayed for several reasons. I was traveling last month and could not take the art project with me on the plane and the holidays also kept me from working on it regularly. In retrospect I think that this was positive though. I […]
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New Growth Collage
New Growth Collage is a piece that I had an idea for in my continued series of art with recycled materials. I have in the past relied on materials that are not organic but had saved some pumpkin seeds that I had roasted to long for them to be edible. I loved the idea […]
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Direction Collage With Recycled Material
Direction Collage With recycled material is my first piece that I created in a new series I have started on using recycled material in my collage artwork. I have worked in collage before, mostly using fabric, print, painted tissue paper and foil. For this series, I decided to push it up a notch or two […]
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Blue Ridge Arts Festival 2013
Last weekend, October 12 -13, I attended the Blue Ridge Arts Festival 2013. It was my first experience showing my artwork at an outside festival. I had shown my art students work before at different festivals, but I found that things have changed a great deal since my last experience. As I researched online, I […]
