Thursday was the last class for the session. It really went too fast, but fun. It’s a wonderful learning situation for me too…for instance, in teaching a technique sometimes a mistake is made which becomes a happy accident and everyone gets excited; or we all find new materials to use or papers to make such as the painted tissue paper Linda made and shared how to make it with us. I’m looking forward to the next session starting on the 31st.
Tuesday evening was our last opera of the season…”Carmen”. Second time we’ve seen this opera. It’s nice to see the difference in interpretation of the characters and “see” things you didn’t catch the first time. Last Sunday Roberta, Judy and I went to the MCA for the Jim Nutt show. Excellent! I really recomment this for all Chicago artists especially……his work is part of our own Chicago art history as is the work of his wife Gladys Nillson, also one of the Hairy Who. Nice article about them in the February issue of the Chicago Magazine titled “When Jim Met Gladys”. We also stopped by the Cultural Center to see the Vivian Maier photography show. An interesting artist. Never showed or sold her work. She died leaving thousands of pictures and negatives stored in boxes. John Maloof, a writer hoping to find pictures he could use of his subject matter, Portage Park, bought a box of some 30,000 negatives at auction. He was impressed with the work, but didn’t even know who the artist was. He worked on solving the mystery going online and on ebay. He located other boxes of her work and bought them. Finally, It was an envelope from a photo lab that had a name on it…Vivian Maier. To read more about it, check out the January issue of The Chicago Magazine. Twenty two of her pieces are included in the article.
A delightful surprise to go to your website and catch up. Great writing too. Can’t wait to see some of your latest techniques.
Jan