Here’s a sneak preview of what inspires my work: three photos of some of my favorite dancing trees! Learn more tomorrow night; I’ll be taking part in an Artists’ Forum with Michele Lambert and Brenda Stein from 6:30 – 7:30 pm at the Bellevue Branch Library.

Here are 3 views of  Family Secrets, my entry in Bound Together, an exhibit at Watkins College of Art & Design. While the show will be up through October 16, tomorrow is the annual Handmade and Bound event, so that’s the best day to see it.  Find more information here:

http://www.watkins.edu/handmadebound2015/

I’m so honored to be part of this show! Here are the details:

In Honor of the 2015 United Nations Year of Soils

An interdisciplinary exhibition featuring natural history specimens, artist books and poems selected from an international call for entries.

Exhibition Dates:
August 6, 2015 to December 4, 2015
Collins Library, the University of Puget Sound

Opening Reception:
September 10, 2015, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Collins Library, the University of Puget Sound

On-Line Catalog:  www.pugetsound.edu/dirt

Events Calendar

• Exhibition Opening – September 10, 2015 from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
  Reception will be held from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Curator Lucia Harrison will then give a lecture entitled “Intersections:  How Artists and Scientists Can Collaborate to Create Environmental Awareness” from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
• Art/Science Salon – September 17, 2015 from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.
  Tour the exhibit and attend a talk by Lucia Harrison (Visual Arts) and Abir Biswas (Geology) from The Evergreen State College.
• Educator and Student Night – September 24, 2015 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
  Learn about “Staying Healthy with Polluted Soils” with Walt Burdsall from the Tacoma Smelter Plume Project and “Combining Art, Literature and Science in the Classroom” with Lucia Harrison.
• Earth Pigments: Hands-On Activity & Family Reading Hour – October 3, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m
  Make acrylic, egg tempera, and watercolor with soil pigments with Curator Lucia Harrison and join members of Puget Sound Greek Life for stories about soil.
• Dirt? Poets Reflect on Soils and the Environment – October 15, 2015 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
  A Poetry Reading with Regional Poets featured in the Dirt? Exhibition. A celebration in conjunction with Tacoma Arts Month.

All events are open to the public and will take place in Collins Library, University of Puget Sound.

Here are 2 views of my piece, Secret Sides of Soil: 

It’s an origami flexicube.