Weekend @ VALA: Finding "Home"

 

What an honor to be selected as a VALA Artist in Residence! VALA (Venues for Artists in the Local Area). VALA connects artists to artists through the VALA Artist to Artist Series which spotlights featured artists to discuss their inspiration and process with other artists and is open to the local community. www.valaeastside.org

 

 

We spent our first weekend together building the bones, collecting materials, refreshing the walls and making the old Borders Books in Redmond Town Center our home for the holidays. So many ideas to share and space to offer!! Everyone will have the chance to make and be inspired by art!  The holiday season is off to a great start. We VALA artists are proud to share our gifts with the community!

Spaces were allocated over the weekend and artists started to move in! My mission: create a “dog house” out of the old cash register. When you walk into our new space, scents of evergreens and cedar will abound! Digging around at the local wood pile and coming home to build whatever I wanted was such a release! No need to worry about “what if..”…just use your instincts and have a blast! The "Dog House" will be a space for mold-making and I invite anyone interested in kiln-casting glass to come down and participate.

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of art-making is spent within the niches of our houses and studios, hands caked in gritty plaster…quietly engulfed in thought or chasing the next idea. The VALA 2013 Holiday Artist in Residency couldn’t have come at a better time for me. By sharing my passions with others, art-making ignites the FUN, which is the main ingredient for beautiful works to come!

 

Thank you VALA for connecting artists!