Greetings Global Art Spot friends,

As you may know, I planned a Day of the Dead workshop for this past Saturday. I have been promoting it for 8 weeks. I was lucky to have media coverage for it in The Gazette, The Sentinel and The Washington Post!


The plan was to build an altar in the tradition of the holiday with the workshop participants. I, as usual created an alter for my ancestors on November 2 and I made it to accommodate the work of my workshop participants.

There were two wonderful people who gave me verbal registrations and others who seemed interested. On Friday evening when I was still without any other confirmations, I decided to cancel the workshop.
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The process was a great learning experience for me and I look forward to working toward connecting with more people who have an interest in creativity.

I love the work that I do in Howard, Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties here in MD. My goal is to also offer opportunities for exploring creativity right here in my own community.
Suggestions and feedback are welcome.

8 New Acrylic Paintings

ACTION ALERT

Friends, Have you have been hearing the inflammatory conversation on the impacts of the arts in our communities? What planet are these guys on? Look around, the arts bring economic benefits to ALL of our towns and cities.

Preaching to the choir? Please take a moment to support the funding proposed in President Obama's stimulus package for the National Endowment for the arts.
CLICK BELOW to share your opinion with your representatives.

http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=12426636&type=CO

In my professional life the NEA is the org that gets the big bucks and re-grants to the states and counties and orgs. It is crucial to the livelihood of today's working artists. Especially those who focus on education and building communities!
Thanks for the support

The Meeting

This is a photoshop sketch. I am so enjoying creating them with my photographs. I hope that you enjoy them too!

"Perserverance" Painting Exhibited in ArtMD 2008

Perserverance Acrylic on Canvas

GOOD NEWS!

"Perserverance" from my new series of mixed media paintings and sculptures will be exhibited in ArtMD 2008. October 31st to December 12th

The exhibition is in the gallery at:

Howard County Arts Council, Howard County Center for the Arts
8510 High Ridge Road Ellicott City, Maryland 21043
hocoarts.org

The exhibition takes place from October 31st to December 12th 2008.
The reception will be held on December 5th 6-9pm and includes a gallery talk by Dr Leslie King Hammond, professor emeritus at MICA. Check her out.
http://www.mica.edu/FACULTY_DIRECTORY/index.cfm?faculty_id=198

The Meeting

"The Meeting" is a mixed media painting with batik, acrylic painting and sewing.
It represents women coming together across cultures.

Today I am thinking about Global Art Spots! I have been to a few great spots to relax, take some time, share ideas with people and make some art. Of course my big spot right now is a two car garage here in Clinton MD.

One of my favorite Art Spots is theToki Memorial Art Center and it's director, my friend Tunde Odunlade. Tunde' Center, sited in Ibadan Nigeria, had two rooms, one for batik and one for sewing on a busy sidestreet. The dying was done near the street in front of the center. Seyi Ogundele, who ran the center for Tunde, taught me the process of waxing and dying cloth. Plenty of people from the community were in and out of the studio, visiting and working each day. I was able to create a few pieces at Toki, "The Meeting" is from that series.

During my time there, I learned a lot about the possibilities of the batik process.
Contact me for more info! Caryl@bigbangbanners.com

Ekaabo!

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