Deidre Adams

Kerr Grabowski, May 2009. Photo by Deidre Adams.
Today’s SDA conference agenda included a variety of lectures and demos related to textile arts. The most inspiring for me today was a demo by Kerr Grabowski, in which she shared her techniques for working with things normally associated with art on paper — like charcoal, graphite, pastels, [...]

This week I’m in Kansas City attending my first Surface Design Association (SDA) conference. This time I wanted to make a concerted effort to get a photo from an actual conference event, so here you see a shot of the Thursday night dinner. Not exactly a stunning example summing up the heart and soul of [...]

Well, I knew there had been a big push during the last several years to privatize all the public resources, but this is going just a bit too far, don’t you think?
What’s that you say? Oh, you mean this isn’t the real Gateway Arch?
OK, you caught me. Alert readers will notice that the shape isn’t [...]

Chairs, ©2009 Deidre Adams
I have been in Athens, Ohio, all this past week. For three days I taught a Photoshop class, and then for the next three I attended the SAQA conference, where I met some wonderful new friends and listened to some interesting discussions about making and promoting artwork. I also went to the [...]

The commission I’m working on is for the new Ritz-Carlton in Lake Tahoe, set to open later this year. This was a very good contract for Translations Gallery, including several pieces by multiple gallery artists. In addition to the commission piece, they also bought this piece:

Horizon IV, 24 x 24, ©2006 Deidre Adams
And this piece:

Horizon [...]