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what do you think?
My head is reeling, and I have a list of could do’s in my mind.  I went to a seminar about the business of art sponsored by Creative Haverhill on Saturday.  I left with new ideas for the business end of my art.  Today I went to the open studios at Western Ave Studios in Lowell.  Now I have even more money making ideas.  My take away, is to use what I find useful and set  some short term goals. But I think my daily goals and actions are going to be related to connections and consistency.

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Small Works Show @ Lynn Arts

©linda germain 2010
aprox 5″ x7″

I am happy to share that I have 3 pieces in the current show at Lynn Arts. Please join us for the opening of Small Works, this Saturday, September 24th from 2-4pm. The show features the work of 28 Greater Boston area artists creating beautiful and complex work from a variety of media. Small Works was juried by Lauren Johnston Winsor, Public Art & Donor Development Coordinator for the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). Ms. Winsor has over five years experience coordinating the public art programs at the NEFA in Boston. Working closely with individual artists and non-profit organizations, Winsor develops grant programs and provides technical assistance for public projects locally, regionally, and nationally. Ms. Winsor is active in organizing professional opportunities for the field through a networking and lecture series for artists and the launch of an online forum for public art in New England. She regularly lectures on public art at colleges and universities across Massachusetts and has served as an artist juror for numerous commissions, grants and gallery shows in Attleboro, Boston, and Lowell, MA as well as in Portsmouth, NH.

The Small Works artists include: Brighton, MA: Ronni Komarow, Cambridge, MA: Laura Carmen Arena, East Boston, MA: Maureen O’Connor, Framingham, MA: Carol Blackwell, Georgetown, MA: Sandra Golbert, Haverhill, MA: Linda Germain, Lexington, MA: Ania Gilmore, Lynn, MA: Pauline Bacon, Rolf Flor, Melenie Melanphy, Nadine Mitchell, Steve Negron, Jean Noyes, Heather Meri Stewart, Barry Ridlon, Joseph White, Malden, MA: C-J Stevens, Marblehead, MA: Holly Chin, Betty Ann Downs, Barbara Rafferty, TANYA, Sandra Winter, Melrose, MA: Kathy Mohar, Middleton, MA: Lisa Bohnwagner, Newburyport, MA: Tricia Jones, Salem, MA: Janet Albert, Sara Ashodian, Swampscott, MA: Robin Samiljan

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How do you create connections?

©linda germain 2006
connection – photograph
I like to be and work alone, but then at the end of the day still need human contact and connections.  The paper stack project with Seth Apter and the Altered page gave me a sense of the possibility of connections with other mixed media artist.  But it still feels pretty abstract.  I wonder how other artists combine, or balance in person and internet connections? 

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paper stack – a collaborative effort

©linda germain 2011
stack of prints on tissue paper
Go to the altered page and see how everyone else stack them up.  This was a fun challenge. Here’s another stack of tea bag papers.
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stack of tea bag papers
If you would like to explore printing on alternative papers, then check out the next session of Make Monotypes. It is an online printmaking class, using ink on paper and the gelatin and glycerin plate.
Tea bags and tissue paper can be an interesting substrate for this printing process.  They are very absorbent and can hold the detailed impression nicely.
By the end of the printing course you will have stacks of monotype prints with potential.  We will approach the gel printing process with the intent to discover the possibilities of this non-toxic medium.

Read more of the printing course schedule here.

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Piles, stacks and making prints/progress

©linda germain 2011
piles of papers
Seth Apter has a call for paper stacks on his blog the altered page.  His photo of his stacks of papers looked great and I thought I can do that, it looks like fun.  I have lots of piles that could be made into stacks. What was I thinking?  I do have lots of piles of papers that don’t look so pretty.  I sorted through some prints that I did on tissue paper last week. I will share some pictures tomorrow.

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