Posts made in March, 2007
Signature Magazine
Signature Magazine, a regional life-style magazine, has just come out with an issue that features our art….nine pages long! I was surprised, but happy that Karen Culp wrote a nice article after our interview. She wrote down some ideas for quilts that I forgot I had until I read the article. And we had three separate photo sessions with Bob Linder, so there’s lots of great pictures....
Read MoreDebris Deadline is Now
You wouldn’t think it, but this newspaper headline is enough to strike fear in the hearts of homeowners, because it mean the end of free city-pickups. In a terrible ice storm last January, branches cracked and trees fell everywhere in my neighborhood. And this is a neighborhood that loves its trees, so we’ve got an especially lot of them. For the last two months everyone has been...
Read MoreDr. Funk
Last week I was kind of down in the dumps, in a funk. So I called my doctor, Dr. Funk (by strange coincidence his name is the same as my symptoms), and I told him that I thought I had broken my Funny Bone. Dr. Funk gave me several recommendations to get me back on my feet: More exercise – -so I’ve been riding my bike in the mornings, enjoying the spring air and flowers. More music of...
Read MoreNew Subscription Buttons
2009 update: These buttons are gone until I get the new blog format finished. sorry! I’ve just added two ways for you to subscribe to my blog. Enter your email address in the FeedBlitz box on the right to receive updates by email. Or use the BlogLines button to set up and add PaMdora’s Box to your reading list. Either way it’s free, your email address will remain private, and...
Read MoreThanks for the votes!
Well, at least my fabric didn’t get wet…. It would have be heck to wash, dry, and iron all this again. Thanks for all the votes in the FiberArts magazine studio contest! FiberArts emailed me that I won in the Best Stash category. Actually they’re the ones who made up the categories based on the submissions I guess. They’ve asked me to write a small tidbit for an...
Read MoreA Strange Email Tale
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the e-mail box…. I was working on a list of all our fine art books that were damaged in the flood — looking up the cost of replacement on Amazon, when I got a message from Ebay. “You have not paid for this item…” Something silly I had bid on late at night for no good reason other than it reminded me of this sculpture by...
Read MoreGoodbye Old Roof
It was a beautiful weekend here. There’s nothing like few sunny warm days to get your spirits up. Over the weekend, we had the old roof completely torn off of the front part of the studio, since it had been damaged by the ice and extreme cold during the January 07 ice storm. It was quite an ordeal — noisey, and a real mess, but I was totally happy with thoughts of getting the front...
Read MoreSewn Glass
If you’ve never heard of sewn glass, you’d better check out Susan Taylor Glasgow’s website. Her work is a wonderful combination of art, craft, color, form and humor. I especially enjoy the way she incorporates advertising text in her pieces — something I do also. I love putting text in my work. Sometimes I don’t think people realize how much the written word is part...
Read MoreThe Q word
Remember last spring when I was posting a lot from the Grounds for Sculpture, that place with the gorgeous galleries and crazy peacocks running around on the lawn? I probably wouldn’t be exhibiting there, except that I used the dreaded Q word during Russ’s installation for his group show last spring. When I said something about my art, the curator said, Oh, I didn’t know you...
Read MoreSupport Art Teachers
This is a T-shirt Russ often wears at sculpture installations. Although Russ and I aren’t teachers, we’ve always done what little we could to support art teachers in our area — things like giving poster board for school art exhibitions, helping facilitate school art exchanges with other countries, and when school budgets are being cut, helping run a campaign for a friend to get...
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I'm an artist who makes humorous quilts and drawings and shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with my husband who is also an artist and sculptor. You can also see more of my art at PamRuBert.com
