Thursday, August 26, 2010

ArtUnleashed

My donation art collage to First Coast No More Homeless Pets fundraiser held Aug. 26 at the River Club in the Modis Bldg., downtown Jax

Monday, August 16, 2010

The Method to my Madness juried art show Aug. 14 to Sept 4

Standing by my mixed media piece titled Mami Wata of the Rivers

Jacksonville Zoo Mural project by the Art Center

Getting the antelope put in
Cheetah family is complete
Starting another elephant
How many more stripes do I have to put on these zebras?!

Monday, June 14, 2010

MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation

Tennis themed silhouettes around the teen room at
MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation 1096 West 6th Street Jacksonville, FL 32209 Artist Marsha Hatcher defining the outlines

Filing in the color
June 5, Marsha and I spent five hours from start to finish completing this mural of various tennis serving and hitting positions of players


Jazz Festival May 28-30

Trumping it Off
Setting the Mood

Meeting in Dance

I did three 16x20 acrylic paintings particularly for the Jazz Fest as both Art Center locations were open during the hours of the festival.

Head Start Mural finished!

Mural completed April 17





Monday, March 01, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Working at Head Start mural since Jan. 23

Flowers galore!
Working on the alphabet blocks

Art Center artists Elaine Bedell and Pablo Rivera



With Art Center artists Marsha Hatcher and Mary Atwood.





Day one, drawing the mural sketch. Yes it was frigid cold in Florida on Jan. 23. The Art Center teamed up with HandsOn Jax and volunteers to work on a mural covering the entire module in the center of a low income housing area off Golfair on the northside of Jacksonville. TAC artists have been giving their Saturdays up to accomplish this mural and work in the community. Stay tuned for updates and the final mural revealed.











Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Riverside Fine Arts show

The "Akala" story series being viewed in the lobby area at the Good Shephard Church in Riverside on Stockton St.
By piece titled "Inquisitive Eyes" . The carved block is next to it so people could see a woodblock and the process.

With artist Marsha Hatcher


With artist Philip Cozma



With artists Jay Wright and John Bunker.
I have 26 woodcuts in this show which opened Jan. 15 and will go until the 29th.




Christmas in Michigan

Grateful for family!
All bundled up and ready to go sledding with my nephews.

Through Our Eyes - Each One Teach One

Artist Marsha Hatcher and myself did similar images of Cayenne Pepper Pickers from our trip to Nigeria.
Marsha's image is in acrylic painting with white paint only. Mine is a linoleum print.

My mentor was artist Cookie Davis. I put my "Uwacu" print into 3-D in clay putting the patterns of the skirt "carved" in the clay.


Cookie's sculpture is on the left and mine is on the right. This show is at the Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum. It opened Nov. 19, 2009 and goes to July 30, 2010.



Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Cayenne Pepper Pickers


This is done on linoleum. Artist Marsha Hatcher and I will be doing similar images with different interpretations of the same image from our travels to see my parents in Africa in Jan. 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

Working in Clay with Mentor Cookie Davis



Literally carving into clay to get the look of when I carve into a block of wood to do my relief prints. The designs are the same from my recent woodcut



Artist Cookie Davis showing me some clay techniques and allowing me the space of her studio and her time.

Another woodcut

Uwacu's Vessel (uwacu means "ours" in Rwandan)


Part of the Joseph's Tunic Series. The patterns in this wrapper/skirt are being put in 3d in clay form

PAL Mural

Police Athletic League off Monument Drive at Ed Austin Park


The Art Center Cooperative busy again on another community service project

Back to work




My panel I did for a total of six that the Art Center collective installed at Gregory Drive Elementary as part of our community outreach

Family vacation in Hawaii July 14-20