Just sharing...

 I grouted the goddess of love... I don't know that I will keep that title(?) it's just what came out...

I am still working on the cutouts

still making prayers...


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Great goddess of love

Back to the portrait she change a LOT from what I thought she was going to be....still in progress

Its all in the details..

the food

the studio

the art

new girl

Joyce Scott!

One of my favorite artists!

Her pieces serve as a commentary for issues regarding race, politics, sexism, and stereotypes. Of her own work, Scott has said, "I believe in messing with stereotypes...It's important for me to use art in a manner that incites people to look and then carry something home - even if it's subliminal..." She received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and M.F.A. from the Instituto Allende. Her work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum

You can see more about Joyce Scott here on the Craft in America web site

where it began

I had been in art school for three years, weaving, paper making, sculpture in clay, metal and fibers and loving it all but not really know where I was heading  or what I was trying to say. Then I took African art history and it all began to make sense. I was seeing work that had the same aesthetics as me, that used color, texture and pattern. It spoke to the gods, to the earth to the basic wonderment of life. 

this leads to this