The Other Side of my Arts-In-Ed Work

Mid-summer flower petal arrangement In my last post I wrote that when I work in schools (which I has been a significant part of my life for decades) that "everything I do with students is closely related to what I am interested in doing myself." The thing is, it's because I can find ways of…

Patterning Together

Nikki Webb, Seminole Patchwork with Paper Here's what I like about the Seminole Patchwork with Paper sessions that I've been offering for the last five weeks: eveything. I was hoping that by offering these classes that the people who participated would buoy each other up. This seems to be happening. It seems to me that…

Of Procrastination and Plateaus

About 10 years ago (maybe more)  I happened to pick out Martha Beck's Expecting Adam from the local library's bookshelf, which led me to search out more of her writing. An especially novel and compelling view she wrote about was on procrastination. My interpretation of what she was saying is that procrastination is the way that the…

Paul Johnson’s Outlier Pop-Ups

"A pop-up needs a fold:" this is what I say whenever I  begin showing a class how to make a pop-up. Ha! Turns out I was wrong!  Paul Johnson's  show at the North Main Gallery in Salem N.Y. has authoritatively proven me to be completely mistaken. Throughout this generous celebration of structurally engineered books  there is not a…