Subject: Mountain Lake Artists Needed

i received this as forwarded mail...

Dear Artists Friends,

  Something has changed this summer in regards to the class I usually teach at the Mountain Lake Biology Station and instead of teaching students, we would like to host a group of working artists in July. 

   This email is to inquire as to whether you or other artists you know may want to spend time on a mountaintop in central Virginia working independently alongside other artists and scientists in a beautiful and cool, (as in temperature as well as style), natural setting.

   Here is the link to the Mountain Lake Biology Station:

http://mlbs.org/

    This artists’ collective at Mountain Lake that I am proposing in this email is a pioneering project.  It has never been done before and its organization maybe a little bumpy.

    What MLBS would like are artists at their station during the summer.  They know scientists work better when artists are around.  This year they established a MLBS visiting artist-in-residence, and their first artist will be Ana Golici.

    Here is a link to some of her work:

http://www.efanyc.org/golici-ana/

    Ana will be in residence during the first 3 weeks of July and we would like to invite other artists to join us at Mountain Lake while she is there.

    Artist could come and stay anytime or all the time during July 1 – 22.  Cost would be $47.50 a day which would included a room in a shared cabin with other adult artists and 3 meals a day at the dining hall.  There would also be one classroom that would serve as a shared studio space with other artists.  Because of the limited studio space, artwork that engages the environment and/or doesn’t require controlled studio space would be best suited for the residency.  In addition, artists whose works cross over into Biology and enjoy creative exchanges with scientists will get more from their time at MLBS.

   Please let me know if you are interested in being a part of this in July, or pass this along to another artists who might.  Once I know there is an interest, I can proceed to how one might go about registering for time and space at MLBS.

Thank you

Megan Marlatt

Artist and Professor of Studio Art

University of Virginia

mmarlatt@virginia.edu

www.MeganMarlatt.com

Megan Marlatt

Professor, Studio Art

mmarlatt@virginia.edu

from Elizabeth Bunsen

Today 

as the sun peeks out

I am musing

about these threads

and the story that they weave

on a square of childhood blanket

the leafy blossom song

in the golden embroidery 

on a lovely bit 

of Arahannah silk

150 years old

from the hem of the silk skirt

she purchased in Turkey

touring the world on honeymoon

a transferred patch of turquoise

from Kim's gifted silk scrap 

the strip of sky blue

from my Mother's silk pants

a vertical snippet of soft seaglass gray

from her 1950's cashmere twin set

labyrinthine stitches

surround silk enclosed eucalyptus seeds

and the gum leaf patterned backside

quietly betraying the imprint

of a rusty clip

and the mahogany sandwich...

visit my blog @
http://www.elizabethbunsen.typepad.com/

John Parkes writes

further to the previous post, John Parkes has advised he is writing about some of the cloths from the exhibition at the Timeless Textiles farcebook [sic] page which is here...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Timeless-Textiles/241063289288032

 

 

John Parkes

quilt for the upper torso [with paternal resonance] 2012

i can't remember exactly when i met John Parkes
it could have been 2004, about the time of the "Space Between" conference
when he curated a splendid exhibition "string me a story"
or
perhaps a little earlier. i'm not sure.


in 2006 i enjoyed two weeks at Edith Cowan University as artist in residence
[something i am fairly sure he had a hand in promoting]
and discovered that in addition to his professional accomplishments
he is also an excellent cook.
[at this time i also admired his use of ancient cheese-graters as shields for tea-light candles in the garden and have been copying it shamelessly ever since]

i have followed his work with considerable interest
and he is represented in 'Second Skin'

he kindly sent me a link to a set of images from his recent retrospective
which are quite frankly delicious.
you can find them here

in which Marti Weisbrich reflects on waiting for spring

Gray, barren, cold, at times icy, this is the landscape of southeasern TN in winter.  We don't get heaping amounts of snow but once in a while come flurries although folks around here remember the great blizzard of 1993.  I wasn't here then; I've only been here for 4 yrs but this year, especially, I wanted to mend the landscape. A friend had sent a box last year filled with white cotton scraps from sliding glass door curtains, napkins, pillow cases, an old skirt and placemats.  I dyed those scraps with everything I could find on the land; walnuts, oak leaves, hickory bark, crabapple leaves, vinca vines, and even indigo leaves from seeds planted in the ground. These cloths turned the rich deep chocolate color of good planting dirt.  Re indigo: I didn't have the materials to make a vat but I took the indigo leaves and bundled them in cloth, put the cloth in a glass jar and put the jar outdoors in the sun for a few days. The indigo left markings that reminded me of petroglyphs.  With the chocolate cloths and the indigo scraps, I created the landscape that I have been waiting for, good dirt and blue sky and in so doing, mended my landscape longing...

Marti

re rag rug

here's a lovely place for a cup of tea and a good rummage - site is in Swedish but if you look on the right hand side you'll find a helpful button that offers to translate :o)

+

[click on the mark above to be transported]

and the image? a bird dropping that indicates [a] the bird has been eating berries and [b] that the contents of the bird's tummy are alkaline

saved

http://www.ariannepolletbrannen.ca/