What Do You Know, I’m an Artist!
October 11, 2008
Artist In Residence, Old Church Gallery
I don’t know why being called an artist always surprises me, or makes me feel all funny inside. Does it sound pretentious? Is it wishful thinking? I don’t know exactly, but it still gives me a thrill and yet makes me feel like a phony at the same time!
This past weekend my good friend Karen and I were the Artists in Residence for The Old Church Gallery in Cedar River, Michigan. We brought our respective work and spent the day there, meeting the customers and having a ball together. Karen Brabender and I have been friends since grade school, and we are each other’s inspiration for artwork in a lot of ways. Karen does gorgeous mosaic glass paintings under the business name Re-Creations Mosaics. She takes a lot of old windows and does mosaic work on the glass. Anyway, the day was a great success and they have already asked us to do it again next year, and they are going to be having a lot more artists come in also. People seemed really excited to see us working on our things right in front of them.
I love the contact with people – I have always been very outgoing and I love to socialize, so these kinds of events are something I really enjoy. I hadn’t had enough beading time lately, so it was nice to get back to designing and creating jewelry. I have been so busy with other things that I have been neglecting my creative side – my internal artist – and that has to change. That artist inside is important and I need to let her out to play more.
Cedar River Gallery with sign
