My apartment is in an old mill complex, and we have a community room.  I gave a quilling class to some residents and their friends.

Here is the table, set up neatly with practice materials and kits, and ready for the students.

And here we are, after about 2 hours of work!

 And, finally, the successful students, with their cards:

Once again, I will be exhibiting at the excellent Creative Hands Art Show on Nov 4, 2018.

I will have several new pieces, among them 3 etrog boxes, the result of a collaboration with local woodworker, Merle Krueger.  Any remaining after the show will then be posted in the “current work” page, and available for sale.  Or contact me.

Here is one such box, a sukkah design, in a cherry box.  I also made a carrying bag for it.  The design is quilled, and the word “Simachtem (You shall rejoice)” is raised gilding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope to see you there!

At the beginning of October I attended the ArtFusion conference at the Estes Park YMCA.  While it is a YMCA, with kids camps and all sorts of recreational facilities, it is much more – a huge, sprawling resort, with many types of accommodations and dining areas.  This was “Eco week”, so it was filled with grade schoolers, as well as numerous adult conferences and reunions.  It was very well run. 

The conference was primarily for decorative artists, but I was invited to set up a table for the Society of Gilders.  I also took a verre églomisé class from SOG member Mary Beth Ting, who helped me at the table and took this picture.  On the day I left, there was a beautiful rainbow.

On August 12 and September 23 I exhibited my gold resin ornaments at the Providence Flea.  It is a delightful outdoor market, about half original art and and half antique dealers.  The makeup changes each week.  It is only on Sundays in the summer and early fall.

My friend Fannie came with me (and took this picture), which was a big help, as we had to lug the tent, sand bags, tables, etc.  Fortunately, the weather was not a problem. 

My first trip of the new year was to the West Coast Art and Frame Expo, held at the Paris and Bally hotels in Las Vegas.  Once again, members of the Society of Gilders were invited to teach gilding, and we were generously given a booth on the trade show floor (if you scroll past some of the posts below, you can see pictures from last year’s visit).   Rosemary Campbell, our Executive Secretary, and I manned the booth, as you can see – this was on our first day.  I am wearing my Society of Gilders apron, and Rosemary has on the T-shirt.

The tondo frame on the stand is the work of Barrie Lynn Bryant, our Board member, and his wife.  Both Barrie and Leah Fishman, another Board member, were teaching most of the time. After three days, Rosemary and I had invited almost one hundred visitors to try gilding a  small piece of paper.  We added a few new members, and received a lot of appreciative comments.

I did have a chance to visit the rest of the trade show floor, and even ordered some new tools!  This year I did not teach or take any classes, but there were many excellent ones. – Jan 28, 2018