Rick Moore is a pro! A beloved, retired Math teacher, Rick has found another calling, interviewing athletes and artists (among others) for his amazing internet radio venture. Go Rick! Here’s my recent interview with him. I am humbled by his generous spirit.
Celebrate Wearable Art
A Creative Challenge: Preparing for two amazing events!
There’s nothing like an artistic challenge from a fellow artist to get the creative juices flowing. With a fall full of tying up loose ends for the seARTS event, Celebrate Wearable Art III (of which I am chair), it was imperative that I found some time to wear my artist hat and create something new over the summer. Thanks to the collaboration with Camilla MacFadyen for her “summer” look for the runway show, I stared out the window of my studio into my garden, looked at my tray of small pieces of glass, and thought long and hard about what might possibly show up on a runway? This by far is the biggest challenge for the Celebrate Wearable Art show – to make a statement piece that can be seen from far away.
The result is a theme piece called “The Rains of Summer; Tears of Joy.” This thought directly aligned with the first “rain” that hit my garden and the shape of a raindrop and a tear-drop – both of which are soothing in their own special way! The piece is actually a series of five tear-drop shaped pendants uniquely tied together in one piece to fully cover the neckline of the model below the neckline. After the show, this piece can be taken apart with each piece of it, its own pendant unless of course, it sells as one piece. Along with this, earrings that mimic the pair I made for the 2011 runway show that often get significant attention when I wear them – long and slender with one large bead or pear at the end – inspiring a “runway collection” of similarly constructed earrings! Since I cannot reveal the pieces until after September 27th, I can only tease you with the pieces that I mention here that were the precedents to the final product and of course, the garden that I look at from my studio! Here's a "Summer Sail" piece in the teardrop shape.
Then I look forward to showing you ALL the new work on October 10-12 at the Fall Cape Ann Artisans' Studio Tour!
Cape Ann Designs & seARTS in the art news!
It's been truly amazing to see the interest in the "Celebrate Wearable Art II" runway show that we/seARTS and the Wearable Arts group held last September. Speaking as an artist, it's very satisfying to share locally made art in new ways that engages such a wide range of creative minds. The editors of Art New England took a unique point of view on Wearable Art outside the Urban Center – played out in two parts, the first of which showcasing work from my collection as well as a dress made of pasta. Yes, seaglass and pasta both indigenous to Gloucester! Cape Ann Magazine tied our show to revenue – a great idea to make money while doing all this hard work in the creative sector. And finally, the Gloucester Times published my entire "thank you" letter to the behind the scenes team.
I was also thrilled to have one of my favorite pieces shown in Art New England – so here it is aga
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