15 Years Teaching Art...

After 15 years teaching Visuals Arts in rural Maine, it's time to change pace, create more time to create. It's taken this spring season for me to resign from my teaching position, wrap up this phase of my professional career, and find a perfect new position. I have been very fortunate to find my new job at the same elementary school. Starting this month, I can be found in the Learning Commons. A Learning Commons is a relatively new concept for library, emphasizing an interactive, multi-purpose, technology integrated environment where students creatively research, investigate, build (3-D printers), read, and generally explore information. I will be helping my students in a variety of capacities and generally working a lot less hours than I did as a Visual Arts Teacher-Ninja. (insert my favorite emoji: the girl doing a cartwheel). I'm feeling enormously grateful heading off in this new direction - and more frequently into my studio. (cartwheel girl)

Summer has brought experimenting in my studio - painting on stones! This is something I did many years ago with one of my sisters selling the finished stones in a little wagon on Fire Island in New York where we spent that summer. We did a brisk business! Back then I had a signature bird that I painted over and over again on lovely sun-bleached smooth round white stones. Today I'm letting the stones sort of speak to me and tell me what they want to become. It's enormously fun, sort of like releasing the creature from within.
Happy Summer!