Currently, I’m in the middle of teaching an Eastern Repousse and Chasing workshop for Silvera Jewelry School. Like Metalwerx and Rio Grande, Silvera is fast becoming one of my favorite places to teach, even though I’ve never been there. I might not be teaching with my feet up, but to help each student I’m still…
For decades I’ve advocated the importance of playing in other media or learning new things in a different field from your primary one. Sherlock and his dubious violin playing are a prime example, but seriously, how much longer would the world have waited for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (General or Special) if it weren’t for…
As part of my learn-everything-I-can-while-house-bound Shiny Online Workshop Syndrome, last winter I took a workshop designed to draw calligraphers outside of their boxes and touch on the world of text art. What’s the difference in calligraphy and text art, you might ask? I could give you an in depth answer, or I can distill it…
About 6 years ago, my previous next door neighbors cut down everything that was beautiful in the yard next door to mine. The 100 year old camellia, the massive rhododendron, 2 large water oaks, and more. Why they opted to buy a home in an urban forest instead of a clear-cut suburban development was beyond…
Spring is here in Atlanta with the trees in my backyard budding, the few flowers that have survived our dogs blooming, and the splash of purple from my neighbor’s redbud tree making me do a double take every time I look out the kitchen window. I love that color prevails! We are so fortunate to…
March 4th marked four years since I lost my greatest life and art mentor, my godmother and art-mom Bobbie Crow, really the person responsible for my not living in a padded cell. Some of us are fortunate to be born into and cherished by families of origin. Some of us are fortunate to be swept…
This week, the big, final, studio puzzle piece arrived: a custom built flat file drawer cabinet that looks like an antique map drawer cabinet in pristine condition. I’d had slight heart failure last fall when my husband cc’d me on an email he’d sent about getting it custom built. As a highly productive, tools and…
