Jenny Mendes

words from the wall of a restaurant in Nepal I received yesterday...

My sweet talented cousins!!

Getting closer!!!

"I pick up a pencil, I put it down, I pick it up again. I am thinking of you. I am always thinking of you. —Mary Oliver, from “West Wind,”

CERAMICS INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION May 26-July 9, 2016 with a wine and cheese reception on Thursday, May 26th from 5:30pm-8:00pm. The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve is proud to present its Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, a showing of the vibrant work of local ceramic artists. Curated by Mary Urbas, this exhibition highlights the exceptional clay community of Northeast Ohio, bringing to the forefront their unique and diverse vision of this primordial medium. The show’s ample roll call features pieces from 17 regional artists including Jeffrey Allen, Tracy Ameen, Diana Bjel, Susan Gallagher, Yumiko Goto, Michael W. High,  Eva Kwong, James Leslie, Lynne Norwood Lofton, Jenny Mendes, Sandy Miller, J. Derek O’Brien, George Roby, Jack Rotar, Mindy Sand, Brinsley Tyrrell, and Theresa Yondo. Mary Urbas, Gallery Director at Lakeland Community College, has over 35 years of experience in the professional art world as a gallery owner, curator, teacher and consultant. Urbas’ careful selec

A good mantra to start the day off....thank you Caroline!

TO BE COURAGEOUS See with every turning day, how each season wants to make a child of you again, wants you to become a seeker after rainfall and birdsong, watch how it weathers you to a testing in the tried and true, tells you with each falling leaf, to leave and slip away, even from the branch that held you, to go when you need to, to be courageous, to be like that last word you’d want to say before you leave the world. Excerpt from ‘Coleman’s Bed’ in ‘River Flow:  New and Selected Poems’ ©David Whyte and Many Rivers Press

“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.” –Victor Hugo

www.akardesign.com Akar yunomi show 2nd of my five pieces in the show...

the annual yunomi show is up!  1000 yunomi from 200 artists.  I was especially happy with mine this year.... come see!! www.akardesign.com

yes that is my hand underneath the mushroom!!!

I am feeling especially lucky this year when it comes to mushrooms and other things as well.  Yesterday I got really close  and locked eyes (like ten or less feet away)  to some nature that paused before me... Several deer, 3 giant bunnies and this little cutie.  It was almost like they weren't fearful of my kind...feeling some seriously positive vibrations..

What a beautiful day, perfect weather and the loveliest people all weekend at the Saint Croix Pottery Tour!  Grateful to have been here..... Shoko and I!