bits of the week

Carlee's piece at LACMA, LACE studio visit to Steve Roden's air form house, Barry Zweig in a moment, blue mountains, mixing flesh tones

CSULB Fiber Shows

The Fiber Department at CSU Long Beach was out in full force in three of the five student galleries a few weeks back. My "Third Eye" doorway hanging was part of the group show along with Greg's sea creatures, Rosary's wool coat, Krista quilt from Hilary Hopkin's Fiber Dyeing last semester and three more students from her Fiber Sculpture class. The last two images are Jennifer and Noelia's solo Fiber BFA shows. Good stuff!

studio tableaux

Having fun with a newly dyed piece of indigo cloth (logwood plus 5 dips in the indigo vat!) before having to cut it up for a project.

the figure

Taking Malaika's figure drawing and painting class. 

light

Suprasensorial at the MOCA Geffen, Lukshon bathroom, and view of a friend's home on a hill

Recycling

Finally found good guidelines for recycling. Can now officially recycle styrofoam, magazines, and things with adhesive labels curbside. Good job LA. There was a time not too long ago that this was not allowed, even though I did it anyway. The only thing not recyclable are the tetrapacks from soy milk, hmm...

 What You Can Recycle at the Curb
The Bureau of Sanitation issues blue containers for recycling. The following are items that can be placed in the recycling container:

• Paper
  -  All Clean Dry Paper   computer, ledger, wrapping, arts and craft paper, unwanted mail, flyers, telephone books, note cards, newspaper, blueprints, magazines, file folders, paper bags, Post-it notes, catalogs; and all envelopes including those with windows
  -  All Cardboard Boxes and Chipboard
  cereal, tissue, dry food, frozen food, shoe, and detergent boxes; paper and toilet rolls; and corrugated boxes broken down and flattened
• Metals
  -  All Aluminum, Tin, Metal, and Bi-Metal Cans   rinsed if possible, soda, juice, soup, vegetables, and pet food cans; pie tins; clean aluminum foils; empty paint and aerosol cans with plastic caps removed, and wire hangers
• Glass
  -  All Glass Bottles and Jars   rinsed if possible, soda, wine, beer, spaghetti sauce, pickle jars, broken bottles, and etc.
• Plastics
  -  All Clean Plastics 1 Through 7 -  Empty Plastic Containers   rinsed if possible, soda, juice, detergent, bleach, shampoo, lotion, mouthwash, dishwashing liquid bottles, milk jugs, tubs for margarine and yogurt, plastic planters, food and blister packaging, rigid clamshell packaging, etc.
  -  All Plastic Bags and All Film Bags
  grocery bags and dry cleaner bags, and all clean film plastic
  -  All Clean Polystyrene (Styrofoam®)
  Styrofoam® cups, containers, and packaging such as Styrofoam® egg shell cartons, Styrofoam® block packaging, and Styrofoam® clamshell packaging
  -  Miscellaneous Plastics
  Plastic coat hangers, non-electric plastic toys, plastic swimming pools, & plastic laundry baskets

yarn and weaving goodness

Last week, I stopped in to help my friend, the super talented Tanya Aguiniga with her yarn and weaving installation Crossing the Line at the Craft and Folk Art Museum . This was one of my little bits.  Craft and art are so great when a community gets together to get it together. The opening is this Saturday, Jan 29th along with the Ackerman exhibit.

fiber sculpture

My experiments in materials, yarn bombing, felting, and coiling from Carol Shaw-Sutton's Fiber Sculpture class at CSULB this past fall. One more piece still in progress. Seriously, Carol knows everything and it was all about smart hands :)

Akemashite Omedetou!

That means Happy New Year in Japanese. Nothing like some warm ozoni soup, osechi, and a tiny cup of sake at my in-law's house after a night of dance party moves at Jenna's. Yum. It's 2011 y'all.

*happy holidays*

my point of view

olmec at lacma, sf clouds, the magic hour, to dye for at deyoung, carol's collections, hands, romanian folk art and zandra rhodes at mingei, a's heart bday cake

september

my shadow with netting, crochet, immersion dyeing, drying marigolds, pompoms for a 75th birthday, block of black sugar, and tofu dinner

more pretty things

playing with the sticker dots from my Ermie order, got totally mesmerized for a good 20 minutes and then some more the next day; my first dyeing project, wowza; gorgeous tomatoes also from Jennifer, thank you!!; Sheila Hicks rocks from a textile book at the library.

more nature please

Note to self: More nature, more balance.

It's amazing how refreshed and rejuvinated, and therefore productive I been these last several weeks. This, a result of being immersed in nature in the weeks previous. This means unplugged and forced to adjust to peace and quiet. Reminding myself that it's so important to keep that balance because it's so easy to get caught up and forget. It seems the only way to survive in an urban lifestyle. Hoping this trip and weekend hikes will sustain me through the rest of the year.