I
was speaking with a good friend the other day saying that I am almost
finished renovating the property I have now lived on for over a year and
they asked, “So, where are you going next?”
That
question made me stop and think about “LIFE”…my life, my jobs and all
the homes, studios and gardens I’ve lived in, designed, built, or
renovated; all the art I have created in those spaces, and all the
friends who have gathered in them for life events.
I’d
like to share some small peeks at 6 of the places including Comptche,
CA, Manchester, CA, Tampa, FL, Manchester, VT, Mendocino, CA, Land O
Lakes, FL
My Comings and goings in a nutshell:
After
finishing my BFA at Alfred University and MFA at Syracuse University my
career as an arts administrator led me to Greenwich House Pottery in
New York City, as only the third Director in it’s 80 year history which
subsequently led to a position at The American Craft Museum, also in New
York City, setting up a Department of Education.
A
short time after moving from New York to Mendocino, California to be
the Director of the Mendocino Art Center I took an opportunity to change
my focus from administrator to full time studio artist which I have
happily been for the past 30 years. During those years I opened “SBW fine textiles” with two nationally marketed lines of hand
dyed women’s silk velvet clothing and a limited edition of hand screened
silk bedding. I also received a research grant from Syracuse
University to study the pre-Columbian pottery on several of the
Grenadine Islands.
In the years that followed I traveled with my sister to China in
addition to experiencing an amazing time in Mongolia where the
temperature was 40 below zero and we lived in a yurt as guests of a
nomad family. The award of an International Artist opportunity took me
to Indonesia where I lived and worked in the artist’s compound on the
Island of Java with side trips to Bali and Borobudur.
My
work has been shown and sold through venues across this country
including opportunities to work with founder of
Pacific Textile Arts, Lolli Jacobsen and expanding my visions with
installations in the wonderful space formerly known as Odd Fellows in
Mendocino. At present I am putting the
finishing touches on my latest project… restoring a home, landscape and
studio in Florida where I can continue
“making art”.
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