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Inspired by Hand Job: A Catalog of Type

Inspired by Hand Job: A Catalog of Type

by PaMdora on 22. Dec, 2009 in Blog, Inspiration, Other Artists, Sketchbooks

The other night I got a little crazy with the scissors and whipped up some hand-made letters for the header for the blog. I don’t know if it looks good, but it was fun. I had been was looking through the book Hand Job: A Catalog of Type to find inspiration for a project I [...]

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Creative Space and Time: Podcast with Ricë Freeman-Zachery

by PaMdora on 06. Nov, 2009 in Featured, Press

To write Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, Ricë Freeman-Zachery worked all last year getting a ton of information and tips out of twelve artists (including me). She also got great photos of artwork, drawings, quilts, sculptures, collages, sketchbooks, and studio space from everyone. For my contribution to the book, I think [...]

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Did I say that? (less is more)

by PaMdora on 11. Jun, 2009 in Exhibitions, Press, Writing

When I first got into some art shows and was asked for an artist statement, I often spent a lot of time at the word processor — refining and tweaking and trying to cram as many power-packed poetic words into the space allowed. Type…..check the word count…..retype……check the word count. Now after a year of [...]

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A visit from Spike and Warren on their book interview tour

by PaMdora on 15. Jul, 2008 in Press, Studio

Over the weekend author Spike Gillespie and her boyfriend “Warren” the photographer visited our studio to do an interview and photos for Spike’s new book Quilting Art that will be published next year. It was kind of a whirlwind weekend tour of our life around here, starting with fabulous fireworks behind one of Russ’s sculptures [...]

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Drawing from Life

by PaMdora on 19. Nov, 2007 in Drawings, Inspiration, Sketchbooks

This is a terrific book that I picked up in Seattle and since have been slowly relishing each page. Unlike many survey books that devote little more than a superficial paragraph and single photo for each subject, there are many photos from each journal featured, along with Jennifer New’s in-depth profile of each journal-keeper’s motivation, [...]

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