Last night was a whirl of openings! The Arizona Museum for Youth held it's opening for the exhibition Table Manners and it was packed with great artists and people from the area! The cupcakes (pictured above) and my cake got rave reviews and I think the kids really liked them too. It's a great exhibition with activities for children throughout that coincide with the artwork. If you bring your kids there they can design their own china, learn how to properly set a table, and feast their eyes on some artwork! (the cake looks small in this photo, but it's 8 feet tall!)

My professor Susan Beiner also had an opening at the Ceramic Research Center at ASU. Her work is divine! She filled a wall with these ceramic plant forms that seemed to be taking over the gallery space. Susan is on my thesis committee and I am so happy to have her involved with my educational growing. She is a fantastic lady with a lot of drive and enthusiasm. Here are some photos of her work.

Leftovers

Hey Everyone! I have a solo exhibition opening May 16th at the Eye Lounge This is a detailed photo of a large scale piece I will be installing at the show. There are about 200 ziploc sandwich baggies with pieces of stitched food, or stitched things that look like food, or something of the like. This photo is a stitched cupcake. Come and check out the show if you happen to be in the Phoenix area. I will post images of the exhibition once it is installed.

So, I am working on a slide presentation about third wave feminism and my work for the Wisconsin Women Studies Conference, and I came upon this little quote from Martha Stewart, "I consider myself one of the original feminists. I'm trying to help give women back a sense of pleasure and accomplishment in their homes." I don't know if we could consider Martha one of the original feminists considering "feminists" have been around much before Martha was even born, but I like the second part of that quote. I am finding pleasure in being involved in home duties. I do not cook big home made meals too often, but I find recently that when I do I feel real nice. I hope to find that sense of accomplishment in the home soon... so much spring cleaning to be done!

Coconut Snowball Layer Cake

Some of my goodies are starting to get quite large! You can see this cake in the Harry Wood Gallery in the Art building at ASU. It's in a scholarship competition exhibition for a summer travel award. I proposed to travel to France, Switzerland, and Austria to study window and shop displays at bakeries and chocolatiers. We'll find out who wins the awards in two weeks!

These are some new "cookies" I am working on in my studio.

A New Blog

I have decided to start a blog as a way to communicate with friends, family, and art people! I will use this space on the world wide web to post new images of work, thoughts, inspirations, news, updates and the like. So watch out for some Mindy Sue!!