Installation

Today we saw our community art piece come together with the installation of silk hoops in the windows of the ballroom of Virginia House at Shrine Mont.  

It is fun to see the landscape of Shrine Mont behind the colorful paintings on the hoops.

This drawing of a porch chair almost seems to fit right into the porch outside the window.

Each window represents the members of one of the cabins of campers.  This will also facilitate taking down pieces and sending them home after our closing tomorrow.

We had a lovely viewing of the installation and all the work created during the show in the afternoon. Guests from the St George's camp, Shrine Mont staff and Shrine Mont Camps staff all came to join the campers and counselors in celebrating the work done during art camp.  

We had a station for visitors to add to a group mural and had wonderful interactions as visitors asked artists about their art.

All will be revealed...

At camp when campers ask too many questions about what is coming next, the counselor response is "all will be revealed."

Today was a full day of making, getting parts together for our final installation at the end of camp.

No pictures yet - still in process. 

But soon...all will be revealed.

Full days at camp...

Days continue to feel full at camp.  Most of my making is making space, framing time and space in the studio for making.

I did rinse and dry my experiments with felt dying...

And I began a collage of my own in the evening...more to come on that later.

Installation and Community Art...

Tomorrow begins creating pieces with the younger kids for our installation of community art.

Here is my small installation in the studio to inspire them...

Trying new things at camp...

So as I encourage my artist campers to try new things at camp, I am challenging myself to do the same.

Here's a linoleum block I cut this evening...

...I look forward to printing it tomorrow.

And here's a color spectrum of kool aid all ready to dye wool roving.  Hoping to put it out in the sun tomorrow.  It's supposed to work like sun tea and dye the roving in the jar when the sun heats the liquid.  So far it's been a fun experiment.

First day of Art Camp

Today we began art camp with time for decorating sketchbooks.  I decorated mine too...

It was fun to share some of my favorite media with this group of young artists.  I look forward to the rest of the week and am thankful to feel myself again.

Time for healing...

I woke up in the middle of the night last night with food poisoning.

Spent today in bed and finally the evening at the hospital receiving IV fluids and an anti-nausea medicine.

I didn't make anything but was touched by how much the hand-made decorations in the hospital room spoke to me and brought a sense of connection in an otherwise sterile environment.