In the community...

Sunday night, Takoma Park (Maryland) artists and activists met at the very groovy Jackie's for an evening of socializing and on-the-spot discussion and suggestions for the city Arts & Humanities Commission.

The very brilliant and capable John Borstel and his team facilitated an adapted open space meeting. Lots of assets and possibilities exist in this community. And (I'm afraid), quite a bit of stuck assumptions and thinking. Hoping and looking forward to some new directions, fresh energy, and dynamic collaboration to come.

Just some of the other movers and shakers there:
Stephane Janin
Adam Griffiths
Bobbi Kittner and her artwork
Alice Sims
Nicole Salimbene
Anne Becker
Sara Daines, City of Takoma Park
and maybe, me, too.

2010 Schedule of Exhibits in Silver Spring, Maryland Coffee Cafe

Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe

Photo by John Morris

A Nod to Artists Whose Work Has Come to Live With Me

Recently purchased, bartered, gifts, founds, or otherwise collecteds by:

Jenny Walton
Jenny Freestone
SOGH (Shawn Theron)
Elizabeth Parthum, papermaking associate at Pyramid Atlantic
Jefferson Pinder
Joanna Axtmann
Bobbi Kittner
Tatiana Ginsberg, Lee Emma Running, Kate Carr

And a print by artist and fellow grassroots fundraising consultant (!) Sha Grogan-Brown that I gave to a dear friend and colleague.

Happy updates: Printmaker Sabeth Jackson. Outsider artists Robb Williams and Lawrence Gross, art students of the extraordinary Eric Gordon at Studio In-Sight.

Oh, and I forgot about a favorite ceramic sculpture by Alvin Lewis Thomas, from his series of heads. Alvin is a student of the adored art teacher Alice Sims, Art for the People.