Fall is approaching

Image from Lopez Island at Iceberg Point

In this email:

• Wake, solo installation at The Annex, Salem Art Association 
• Mountain artist book received a 2019 RACC Project Grant
• Interwoven Alphabet
• The Book as Art: The Page and Beyond
• Unredacted – in Swampscott, MA
• GLOBAL CLIMATE  STRIKE – Friday, September 20

Please join me at Wake’s reception and artist talk on Saturday, October 12, 2019  from 5 – 8 PM in The Annex at the Bush Barn in Salem, OR. I will have 12 ceramic frogs and 10 ceramic bats, 6 wooden panels with words/quotes/statements/numbers made out of a variety of materials, a series of sumi ink drawings of spotted owls, a large wishbone mobile, a couple of mixed media sculptures, and much more.

The Work of White People, 2019, 30″ x 60″, matches, wood. Quote by DeRay Mckesson from his book, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope.

Ceramic bats and frogs 2019, approx. 3″ – 8″

I created this lithograph of Mt. Hood at Kala Art Institute in November of 2017 with the help of Cedar Kirwin. It will be one of 4 different prints in my sculptural artist book about the mountain. The project received a Regional Art and Culture Council project grant on May 31, 2019. I plan to complete it in 2021. My eldest son, Max, and I camped at Warm Springs Reservation in July. Artist and educator Jefferson Greene introduced us to elders from the community and we started the process of recording stories that will be transcribed as part of the project. Mountains are sacred places.

Another mountain needing protection is Maunakea from the building of a new 30 meter high telescope, TMT. A group of respected Kupuna (Hawaiian elders) have been holding down a sacred roadblock on Maunakea since the date of announced construction (July 15). The movement is powerful – a testament to indigenous leaders and community coming together to stand up to protect ancestral land. #Maunakea . For more information.

I am excited to share images of Interwoven Alphabet a collaborative edition of two artist’s books created over an 8 month period by me and Alisa Banks. Each edition consists of 26 half-inch thick squares of felt for the pages. Each page features imagery on the faces. Words are stitched along the four narrow edges of each page. Imagery and words correspond to the letter of the alphabet assigned to the page. Together we chose four words per letter with sound playing a role in the final selection. Themes include: relationships, nature, the senses, time, politics, and the environment. The pages were exchanged back and forth between Portland and Dallas, responding to each other’s marks until all were completed.

Cloth covered boxes made by Rory Sparks and photographs taken by Courtney Frisse.

Light Blue Sun Hat, 2010, 19″ x 20″ x 5 ” will be part of the exhibit The Book as Art: The Page and Beyond at Columbia City Gallery in Seattle, WA. Opening Gallery Reception: Saturday, September 28th, 5pm – 7pm and Book Artist Panel Discussion Saturday, October 19th, 4–6pm – Moderated by Jane Carlin, Director of Collins Memorial Library

This Hunger, 2018,119″ x 110″ x 12″, pin oak trees, wire, ceramic.  Gallery shot of Open Sesame! The Magic of Artists Books Revealed closed on June 9, 2019 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.

Check out prints at MEL’s Frame Shop thru October 31!! I have two framed prints for sale. Want to join a print studio? Check out Atelier Meridian.

Undoing is part of this group show Unredacted in Swampscott, MA. If you are in the area check out this show!

This September, millions of us will walk out of our workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an
end to the age of fossil fuels.

Our house is on fire — let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone.
In Portland? Join me on the streets! for more info

Thank you for reading!
love,
diane