During 2023, I’m exploring my art interests in the spirit of serious play.
I now have a real studio as one of the Pushin Building Artists in downtown Bowling Green, Kentucky.
I entered this piece in the ArtWorks’ Winter Exhibition. It was pretty exciting to see a drawing I’d made hanging in a real gallery — the Godwin Gallery at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC).
I shared and sold (whee!) pieces of art at the White Squirrel Arts Fest.
I also had a piece in the Artworks’ Spring Exhibition, which was hung in the WKU Main Gallery on campus. The different sections of the map refer to the different physiographic regions of the Commonwealth. I called it “Tangled Terrain” – a title suggested by ChatGPT.
The high point of my year was having a piece in the All-Kentucky Juried Art Exhibition, sponsored by Artworks and hung at the Downing Museum. Lots of my favorite local artists are in the show. The Downing is the most elegant place, one of my favorite spots in Bowling Green.
Michael Nichols’ fresco won Best of Show, and Laura McGee’s lovely silk sways at the entrance to the exhibit.
My piece is the first of what I hope to be a series exploring the ideas of home and rootedness. To have a piece of mine hanging in the Downing is a huge kick for me. It feels like a kind of arrival.
