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Craft Boston Groupon
If you live in the Boston area and are possibly thinking about coming to the Craft Boston Show next (Dec. 9-11) weekend, check this out a way to save on admission!! Someone sent it to me today, and they used my image for the Groupon!! ha ha I've been Grouponed! from $15 Buy Value $30 Discount 50% You Save $15 Give as a Gift → Time Left to Buy 4 days 15:38:34 Over 14 bought Limited quantity available The deal is on! Tipped at 8:00AM with 10 bought Tweet! Email! Want more deals like this? Click the hearts below. More the Merrier Good for 2 Simple Pleasures In a Nutshell 90 talented artists crowd beautiful hall, displaying hundreds of unique pieces to savvy shoppers for holiday gift giving destination Add Work The Fine Print Expires Dec 11, 2011 Limit 6 per person. Valid only for option purchased. See the rules that apply to all dea...
CYBER SALE!!!!!
I'm having my 2nd annual online Etsy Sale beginning this (Black) Friday through Cyber Monday. Everything in my Etsy shop will be on sale. Please check it out!!! www.jennymendes.etsy.com
Naughty & Nice
Naughty & Nice Exhibit at Lill Street November 18 – January 2, 2011 Reception and Holiday Party: Friday, December 2, 6-10pm Sixteen artists present pairs of new work that explore an age-old holiday question. Come enjoy ceramic creations by: Pattie Chalmers, Michael Corney, Stephanie DeArmond, Edith Garcia, Hiroe Hanazono, Leanne McClurg, Jenny Mendes, Kevin Snipes, Shoko Teruyama, Matt Towers, David Todd Trost, Sandra Trujillo, Mikey Walsh, Kensuke Yamada, and Gwendolyn Yoppolo. You can see some more images from the show here....
Stick Stack Show
This was a fun show I got to see and participate in by Jonathan Brilliant at the Visual Art Center in Richmond . The best part was walking around this sculpture and taking photos, thank you Thor, Rod and Igs!
This weekend
craft + design show Join us for our 47th Annual Craft + Design Show! November 19-20, 2011, at the Science Museum of Virginia
Upcoming show at Signature
Red Clay Menagerie December 02, 2011 - January 07, 2012 Menagerie: A collection of wild and unusual animals; an unusual and varied group of people. This exhibit, with artists invited by Ron Meyers, will feature a mix of pots and sculpture that incorporate the figure and/or animal imagery using the common material of red clay. Featured Artists: Clockwise from top left, Ron Meyers, Debra Fritts, Jenny Mendes, Isreal Davis, Liz Quackenbush, Rimas Visgarda, and Ayumi Horie. Not shown, Laurie Shaman.
Murmuration
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo . This video is really amazing. Please take the time to view it!!!!!
It's snowing...
It is only early November and already snowing. Knowing there will be months of this to come, I'm not very excited, but it was beautiful driving home in the dark, nearly the only car on the road in the suspended time of a snow globe. I'll try to take a photo in the morning if it sticks.....
On seeing
You know when you notice something for the first time, and then you realize it is everywhere all around you, but you just never noticed consciously? Like a word, or a concept, or a native plant? My neighbor has the most glorious red bushy thing. I couldn't believe I didn't remember it in all its glory from years past. Then I started looking around, and realized little self sown shaggier varieties are all over the place, some even on our property. Actually quite a few small ones here and there. When they are green they are not too exciting to look at, but apparently come October they lose their anonymity in an explosion of color. In the spring, I am going to find some little shoots, and nurture them so that one day, I too will have an incredible red burst come October. Here is my little Claude, nearly one year old. He is so nice. I feel really lucky to have found him.
Some favorites from the Art Institute of Chicago
Miss Cunningham holding her King Charles Spaniel by Robert Healy 1743-1771
High
We are in Chicago for 2 days to visit friends some of which are exhibiting at the SOFA Chicago show. The best part is we got to stay way way up high in the Hancock building it took two elevators to get here! These photos don't do it justice, but the view is amazing. Huge, expansive, It feels like we are on edge of the Ocean, and the colors of the light changing are so lovely. I feel like I am up in a cloud. So this is what it feels like to be really tall! I like it. This is the only photo I took at Sofa. Part of a painting by Beth Bojarski. I really liked the plaid shirt and nothing else!! Best part of being up so high...cloud shadows over lake Michigan.