Artists for Obama

Here is a photo of my daughter and I taken at the Obama rally in Denver on Sunday, attended by 100,000+ Coloradoans. It has been interesting to live in a "battleground state" during this election season! Among many other reasons, I am supporting Obama because of his support of the arts and their importance. The Obama campaign has an arts policy fact sheet on their website. If you'd care to take a look at more specifics and supporters, check out the full platform report. The Obama Arts Policy Committee asked committee member and author, Michael Chabon, to "describe the critical importance of the arts at this moment of remarkable opportunity and challenge in our nation’s history." His essay on page 5 of the report is great.

Past Lives Catalogue

Here is a photo of the show catalogue with the Foundling piece featured on the cover. It is on top of a collage that I'm finishing up... so, a bit wild looking! Above the collage photo is the poem that Hilary wrote to go along with it. Inside, each work from the show is shown with its companion poem.

Foundling

One of the pieces from my Foundling series was used to promote the Past Lives show and was beautifully framed, along with its poem, at the entrance. The collage itself is only 7 x 5". Here is a photo of me from last weekend's poetry reading / performance at the gallery by "Sojourn" that featured works written for this show and music -- it was great. Kudos to Hilary for putting such a big collaborative project together so successfully.

Past Lives Exhibition

Two of my pieces are currently on display in the Past Lives exhibition at the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Below is a collage that was done in response to a poem by Hilary DePolo. The show runs through November 5th and features artists working in a variety of mediums who used Hilary's "encounters from previous sojourns" poems as inspiration.This collage, "All I Needed," is 42 x 18" and is composed of two panels that are joined. A detail of the smaller panel was featured in a previous post, Makeshift Studio.