Archive for June, 2009

Featured artist – Fabric of Legacies

June 25th, 2009

Façade VI, 38 x 63 inches, ©2008 Deidre Adams
Fabric of Legacies is an annual juried exhibition of art quilts shown at The Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, a beautiful center featuring performing arts events along with galleries for visual arts. This year’s show features work from 29 artists. It’s amazing to think that Fabric [...]

Happy Father’s Day

June 21st, 2009

This is a photo of my grandfather. It came from an old square-format negative that was hanging around at my parents’ house for years, stuck in an envelope full of other such miscellaneous pieces of film that had long ago lost association with any known prints. My mother had always wanted to “do something with [...]

Ritz-Carlton commision finished

June 15th, 2009

Iterations #2, 30 x 66 inches, ©2009 Deidre Adams
I finished this piece about a month ago, just before I left for Ohio (see images of the work in progress here and here). The commission was to make a copy of a work that had sold previously. The difference was that I needed to make the [...]

A visit from artist Isabelle Wiessler

June 11th, 2009

Die Spur Der Steine, 74 x 90 cm (29 x 35 inches), ©2008 Isabelle Wiessler
By far the most interesting aspect of keeping a blog is meeting new people, both nearby and from the other side of the globe. It has opened up a whole new world for me, mostly online, but sometimes in person.
This week [...]

Kansas City

June 5th, 2009

Have I mentioned how much I love Kansas City? I thoroughly enjoyed my time here, for many reasons. I loved buying something in a store and being told “thank you very much, and have a nice day!” This is something you don’t hear too much in Denver, where people often act like they are doing [...]