Tis the season. The temperature is finally falling here in New England and we all begin to scatter into a holiday haze.
I was invited to create a tree for Greylock Federal Credit Union’s participation in The Berkshire Museum’s annual Festival of Trees. This year’s theme being Under The Big Top made for a great inspiration to crochet a Dr. Seuss-ish Christmas tree.
This year I have had so many really great projects to test my artistic talents. Though, for the last several months, none of them have been about masks. Well the folks, I’m back at it.
I have a few awesome awesome commissions, and I started the first today. Look forward to seeing a new fox soon… And for now, here is a quick photo tour of some of the side projects I’ve done in the last few months:
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IS183 DIY Series is upon us: Saturday, July 23rd 10am-1pm at the magical IS183 campus. Only $10 for this one day course. I will divulge all the secrets I’ve learned in how to find your niche in the modern market and getting your work out there. This is not a crochet or craft class. This class is about how to pick up on trends, where your customers are, and how to access them.
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Monster Balls, made exclusively for Hardware at Mass MoCA. Under $10, super lovable, & waiting for you to take them home.
Its getting to be that time of year again. So hot and sweaty, I can hardly hold my hook… But I won’t let that stop me. I have been putting together a schedule for summer fun.
Top on the list: I am Teaching a class at IS183, the Berkshires finest art school. It is a part of their DIY series teaching students how to make a commercial niche for their artistic pursuits. Come check it out, Saturday July 23rd 10-1pm. Only $10 if you sign up in advance. Here is a link with more info: IS183 DIY Series
Also this summer I am starting up a weekly crochet class in my studio. $10 group classes, private lessons available upon request. All levels of experience are encouraged. Please email me if you are interested and include your availability so I can set up a class schedule that works the best for the most people. ( huckandstuff@gmail.com ) Classes to begin the first week of July.
I was beyond honored when recently, the Berkshire Museum asked me to be an Artist in Residence this spring. I took the opportunity to make something larger and more complex than what I have made before. I took inspiration from triangles, geodesic domes, zomes, crystals, minerals, platonic solids, Lou Reed, facets & geometry. I sought to create a small geometric structure that one might be able to sit inside.
The process has been arduous and complicated. I have almost completed the project. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
See you at the Museum!
Been busy busy busy lately in the huck and stuff doll factory. Say hello to Mister Lionface of Mneim, such a cutie.
Hello, internets… welcome to my cuddly side. History proves, I like big scary monsters… but before there were big scary monsters, there were adorable miniatures.
Here they are anew.
Christmas commissions: a lion, a monkey and two unicorns.
As Tilly says, “Happiness Christmas!”
Felt old today when describing my travel overseas as:
‘During the Clinton Years.’
I was a dredlocked, 19 year old hippie girl and each time a Morrocan man would learn I was American they would make a joke about Monica Lewinsky, involving a broken French, English/Sign Lanuage…. each time a French man would learn I was American he’d just turn away in disgust.
Inspired by my current lack of employment, this old collage seems to bring me hope, or at least make me laugh. The text reads : Underwear Holds Down Unemploymet ( a cut out from a 1970′s National Geographic, collaged sometime in 1999 while hitch hiking through the Mid West for the first time. )
