Deidre Adams

Where I Come From, 8 x 10 inches, ©2010 Linda Sharp
Yesterday I received this marvelous jewel of an artwork in the mail. It’s my purchase from the SAQA Benefit Auction. I’d had my eye on it from the beginning, and now I’m so thrilled to have it. The photograph doesn’t do it justice; I wish [...]

Façade VIII, 40×67 inches, ©2010 Deidre Adams
I’ve just finished a new piece in my Façade series. (I’ve posted a couple of others here and here.) This piece was started well over a year ago, but it took me a long time to finish it. Sometimes this happens; I get stuck. I don’t try to force [...]

The 2010 SAQA Benefit Auction is currently in progress. This reverse auction is a fantastic opportunity to purchase textile works made by SAQA members. Bidding started on Monday, so as I write this, the price for work on the first two pages is currently $350, and it drops each day until the final price is [...]

Untitled work in progress, 40 x 30 inches, ©2010 Deidre Adams
Well, I don’t know exactly what happened, but after a summer spent mostly unfocused and adrift, I have returned to painting with a vengeance. Maybe it was the change of the seasons, maybe it was getting some lingering projects finished, maybe it was limiting my [...]

After Cleveland, the next logical place to go is Akron, which I think of as the home of Goodyear and other tire and rubber companies — not to mention that it also has a very nice little airport, which for some reason costs about a third as much to fly to from Denver as compared [...]

Like other rustbelt cities, Cleveland is a complicated mix of beauty and misery, with attempts at revitalization and urban renewal struggling against the effects of abandoned industry and declining population. How we got to this point and what to do about it are hot topics in these times, and President Obama has evidently decided Cleveland [...]

This has been a very busy week. On Sunday, I flew to Ohio for the taping of a segment of Quilting Arts TV. Just because of the way things worked out with flights and timing, I was there for 3 full days to do something that in the end will probably take up all of [...]