A work from Karen Arp-Sandel's collaborative art project, FE-MAIL
LATE LAST YEAR, in the throes of a long and somewhat dark winter, I wrote about my new year’s revolutions. Allowing myself to make art was one of the key changes I made last year, and I owe it to my amazing teacher and gifted artist Karen Arp-Sandel. Amid reawakening my creative spark and her own myriad projects, Karen was kind enough to work with me on a profile of her and her art for TSP. Read the results here, and let me know how your creative endeavors are going. Me? Inspired by Karen and her current collaborator, Suzi Banks Baum, I’m tackling a round of mail art. Watch your mailboxes, sisters.
by paige on February 12, 2010
COLLAGE ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE Claudine Hellmuth is one of our favorite TSP Gallery profilees. I have a special affection for her and her lovely work because of my own amateur attempts at collage art. So I was extra-excited when I learned that Claudine has been touring around the country offering workshops teaching her techniques of beeswax collage, and promoting her new instructional DVD (which, yes, I have on order.) Check out our profile of Claudine Hellmuth, and be sure to let us know what artistic adventures you’re embarking on to beat the February blues.
by paige on January 1, 2010
IAM NOT MUCH for New Year’s resolutions. They mostly just make me feel like a slacker by the time March rolls around, one more thing for me to beat myself up for not doing well enough. (And don’t we all have enough of those already?) This year, instead of chaining myself in the guilt of unkept resolutions, I’ve decided to take a more, uh, aggressive approach. [click to continue…]
by paige on October 7, 2009
I F YOU HAVE LITTLE KIDS who are bookworms (in the “read to me, Mommy!” sense, like mine) you may already know the work of Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Her sweet tale Little Pea is one of our family’s favorites, but her extra-literary projects were unknown to me until a tip from a favorite blogger sent me off into the larger world of Amy’s amazing work. [click to continue…]
by paige on September 15, 2009
There once was a girl from New York,
Whose husband thought she was a dork.
She’d knit without fail
In the snow, sleet and hail,
But come summer, cast off needlework.
OK, SO I’M NOT MUCH OF A POET. Or a limericist. But you get the idea. I absolutely, cannot, CANNOT knit when the weather’s warm. (Though I did once finish a shawl on vacation in Hawaii. But that was when I lived in Los Angeles, and if I wanted to knit, I couldn’t let hot weather stand in my way. Another life, another time.) [click to continue…]
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