Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Creative Ways

Creative work has been filling in the gaps of time when I'm not on site building walls for Habitat for Humanity. Here is a collection of images of the pieces I've been creating lately, getting back to my studio roots of Syracuse through paper cutting, knitting, painting techniques, and graphic work. Dreams for a shop on Etsy or a stand at the market continue to grow in this antsy, dreaming mind of mine! ^.~



Graphic logo for created for our Women's Build event the first weekend in May. I designed the logo, Kristina made the screen and a crew of 5 ladies screen printed 80 shirts for the lovely women who participated in our Women's Build Event!

A Shamrock Sweets logo for my Aunt Lyn's new baking and cookie galore company. She's amazing, talented, and ships orders, YUM!


Knitted Neck Warmer




Knitted Mitts



Spray paint, nature, and creative play



99 Red BalloonsPaper Cut for Joel's Birthday May 18th 2011



"We Built This House" is a paper cut piece I made for the NorthWest Symposium. The exhibit was a collection of pieces made by NW AmeriCorps members reflecting on their year of service. Ranging from poetry to video to visual arts. Over one-hundred pieces were submitted and mine was one of the fourteen selected as Jury's Choice which gained me publication in the 2011 Symposium book, my co-worker Dave pretending to be me as he read my artist statement at the exhibit in Portland on my behalf, and a brilliant red ribbon screaming "WINNER" ;)




And some walls, which I've built is sizes ranging from two feet to forty feet over the past eight months with a variety of volunteers. Yea, Habitat! The Renton site has all the walls up, interior and exterior of six units ranging from three to six bedrooms.