CARE

You can still see the online show Care hosted by Dear Artists Project. I’m so honored my work was included in the show co-curated by Benz Amataya founder of the Dear Artists Project and Kaylen Buteyn from the Artist Mother Podcast.

Instagram handles: @dearartists @artistmotherpodcast

Text from the website:

“Caring for others can often come at the expense of caring for ourselves and can trigger depression, panic, worry, and mental disorders that threaten our health. From holding a newborn who feels so fragile, to helping a sick or elderly person who relies on you so heavily, managing the lives of others makes our plates full. Looming responsibilities, figuring out medical tasks we don’t feel prepared for, uncertainty about the future, fear of losing a loved one, lacking resources or wisdom to help those we love...there are so many ways our own stress and anxiety is compounded because we care.

Caring for ourselves and caring about social issues that are important to us can also be a source of anxiety. Are we fitting in the right amount of exercise, sleep, nutritious food, reading, vacationing, etc. Are we listening to what consumerism and the world tells us we need to do to care for ourselves and is that causing even more anxiety? Are we doing enough to contribute to the changes that we need to see in our society? How do we cope with seeing so much suffering in the world?”

Congrats to all of the artists!

Brianna Hernández, Katherine Brown, Stefanie Zito, Taiessa Pagola, Tamara Zibners, Holly Romano, Amy Branch-Lambert, Michela Martello, Cat Gunn, Alicia Sampson Ethridge, McKenzie Drake, Alice Stone-Collins, Casaundra Beard, Anna Armella, Jess Levey, Lauren Herzak-Bauman, Lisa Marie Moriarty, Rebecca Ackermann, Sue Watt, Taylor Lee Nicholson, Jessica Caldas

LECMO @ The Sonoran Glass School

On Friday September 10th, 2021 I was honored to give my first LECMO at The Sonoran Glass School. LECMO is a combo ‘Lecture’ (or Artist Talk) and a ‘Demo’ in the Hotshop. I gave a brief talk before I made two mold-blown glass pieces in front of an audience.

The first piece was from my series “Weaning Vessels” and the second piece was made with a new process to really showcase experimentation and collaboration. The mold was made from my hand clasping my daughter’s. Jason Marstall and I made two separate, different colored bubbles to blow at the same time in the mold. We were assisted by Lauren Steinert, Tom Hodgson and Paul Anders-Stout (who also was the MC for the event). You can see in the photos we used ‘puffers’ (they look like the end of a blood pressure cuff) because of Covid. I actually learned to blow glass this way and not in a traditional way of using your mouth to inflate the glass.

Thank you to the Sonoran Glass School and Director Lynne Davis for your invitation and your support! Thank you to all friends, family, and glass/art lovers who attended!

Artist Profile in Southwest Contemporary

I’m excited to share I was selected for an Artist Profile in the Fall 2021 issue of Southwest Contemporary. My work was chosen for the issue themed Inhale. Exhale. by guest juror Julio Cesar Morales, artist and senior curator at Arizona State University Art Museum. A pdf of the profile is available here.

I am honored that Publisher and Editor-in-chief, Lauren Tresp, wrote the profile. Here’s a taste:

“From assemblages of these raw materials, the artist creates plaster molds and then uses breath to inflate molten glass into slouching, bulging, and gleaming forms and vessels. Some of the objects become zombie-like in their glassy refusal to die. Others are voluptuous and effulgent, with shapely lumps and folds of skin.”

There are many incredible artists included in this issue. Congratulations to my fellow artists!

KAYLA COLLYMORE + DONNA CRUMP, APOLO GOMEZ, WEN-HANG LIN, ELLEN BABCOCK, STEFAN JENNINGS BATISTA, DANIEL HOJNACKI, ALEXANDRA LECHIN, ALEJANDRO MACIAS, JULIA C. MARTIN, DALLIN MAYBEE, JILL O’BRYAN, ROSALINDA PACHECO, AUGUSTINE ROMERO, BRENDA STUMPF, ROSSITZA TODOROVA, EVERTON TSOSIE