Monday, June 18, 2012

KALLIGRAPHIA 13








The show is on at the main San Francisco Public Library.  Kalligraphia 13 is now showiing 97 pieces made by the members of the Friends of Calligraphy.  The show continues until the end of August and will not happen again until 2015. An absolutely fantastic exhibition.  It is a must see!  Here are a few examples....

This piece made by Akiho Sugiyama and Kyoko Matsunaga...


The Bear by Jenny Groat.

Jabberwocky by Christi Payne..

Hisako Nakazawa masterpiece....

Hobie MacQuarrie's wall....

Georgia Dever's wonderful brush work..
Carol Pallesen's..I only have eyes for you.....
This is the first showcase to see...my piece is in the center...clearly numbers...
Closeup of my piece...Clearly Numbers, designed for a room divider, I hand cut, using exacto blades (4), on paper vellum.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

San Francisco's Correspondence Co-op

 We had a great time at the Birthday Party of the San Francisco's Correspondence Co-op.  The attendees collaged and stamped the 'exquisite corpse" which was later cut up by Jennie Hinchcliff (redletterdayzine) and sent to all of us who attended.  It was a FUN party!




Back of the postcard...This is the one I received...So glad I attended.  The happy birthday stamp was a gift from Jennie when we were at the party.

ART AT THE TABLE II AWARD

Four Honorees, Mary Franz, Stephen Shapiro, Ramona K. Davies and David Campos were given an award for their contribution to Bethany Center and Ruth's Table.  Ruth's Table was named so because of the artist, Ruth Asawa.  Her gift of her art table and her idea to meld art and creativity to bring the community of all ages together, gave the center its name.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to make the award.  It's main center is from Ruth Asawa's stainless steel sculpture at the Embarcadero in San Francisco, that I tried to replicate in Japanese Masa Rice Paper.  I was given a deep shadow box to place it in.  I added the Ruth's Table logo floating in the center of the origami fold and the title of each recipient below.  The titles were placed on beveled mat board with an additional mat board and 3 more pieces of acid free papers...each within the one below.

One of the finished awards.
Preliminary pieces before the final folds on Masa paper. I had to make a few in different sizes to see the amount of space it needed to fit into the shadow box.  The one on the left has 10 main points and the one on the right has 13.  I finally made it with 12 points to be honest with the original.

Fascination with Fascinators

On June 14th, Ruth's Table with the Bethany Center had ART AT THE TABLE II event at the Foreign Cinema Restaurant.  A silent auction for wonderful art pieces, to benefit the organizations, was had, as well as awards to four honorees for their contribution to Bethany Center and Ruth's Table.  Aiko Kuneo, daughter of Ruth Asawa made all the table center pieces with her wonderful Fascintator creations.  Above we are all posing - Megumi, Me, Aiko,  top - the Executive Director of Bethany Center, Jerry Brown, Margie Ramirez and Monica - wore our own Fascinator creations to the event.

Aiko and one of my favorite Fascinators made with buttons...Aiko is planning another Fascinator workshop and then maybe a High Tea event with everyone wearing their Fascinators....won't that be fun?


Ala, black and white dots...
Silk flowers


Sticks and things....

Buttons....

Squash never looked so good!

Black feathers and red fabric flower....

A bird in the hands....one in the bush

Zippers galore....

Fancy netting.....


Sunday, June 3, 2012

Ruth's Table Retrospective Show

On Friday, June 1, Ruth's Table gave a wonderful reception for a Retrospecitve show.  Aiko Cuneo, Monica Lee, Tomoko Lipp and I are featured.  All of us had something to do with the art program that Ruth's Table gives to the community with the leadership of Lola Fraknoi and her assistant Megan Coss.  We had so much fun with all the people who came to the event.  They participated in a communal art project that came together at the end of the evening.  These were flowers given to me by Lola, beautiful peonies and the tulips are from my thoughtful friend Megumi. 


This was the wall for Monica and me...

With a collection of recovered zippers, I made a collage of them in one frame and put finished zipper pieces that Monica and I  made in the other..I used a heavy zipper around the frames as a support....The center gold zipper flower is one we made for the VIP's who attended the reception of Ruth Asawa's film documentary of her life showed at DeYoung Museum.

Monica laid an old pattern paper as her base ground and added pieces of her recovered fabrics and added sewing implements to indicate what was used to make the totes, as supports, I surrounded the frames with the webbing we used for the handles of some of the tote bags. These totes are Monica's.
Tomoko, Lola, Aiko, me, Megan, Monica..we are standing in front of Tomoko's tree of newspaper flowers made by many friends of Ruth's Table lead by Tomoko.
Tomoko and I in front of the beginning of the other communal project.
Aiko's communal collage project completed.
I will add more photos after the other communal project is put together....