
The International Bluegrass Music Association has presented the 2011 Best Graphic Design of the Year Award to my work on Abigail Washburn’s cd City of Refuge. The designer is Ricardo Alessio . Thanks, Abby & IBMA!

Ann St. Gallery in Newburgh, NY opens the group show Human Form: An Enduring Inspiration on October 15th.
The show includes Mallory Wetherell’s beautiful clay and thread pieces, paintings by Tracy Stuckey, Catherine Welshman, and a dozen others.
Yearning by Mallory Wetherell
detail of QuizMe by Erica Harris

The big and beautiful Brooklyn Creative League hosts this group show of paintings and collages. Opens this Saturday, Oct. 1 at 6pm and runs through February.
One of the participating artists, Henrietta Mantooth, says of her work:
My painting can be described as “witnessing”. The work is often based on images and stories in the news, [...]

an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays, edited by William Reichard.

A dozen local artists will be participating in this spendid event.
Sunday, December 12th from 11-5 at the Ditmas Workspace, 535 East 17th Street in Brooklyn.

NOW SEE HERE…………an exhibit of collages
at ISE Cultural Foundation
from April 21- May 21

I’ve just returned from six weeks in Varanasi, India.
I have some answers and I have some questions.
It was my great privilege to be able to work with some of the city’s most outstanding young artists.

“Miracle of the Pitanga Tree” illustrates the cover of poet Melissa Kwasny’s new book, Reading Novalis in Montana, from Milkweed Editions.

i spent a month among the ghosts at yaddo near saratoga springs, ny.
i learned some things:

i was in residence last fall at artpoint-gumno in the village of sloeshtica, macedonia. I had wonderful neighbors who taught me how to herd sheep, keep bees, make plum liquor, speak macedonian, and get around town. nostravia, sloeshtica!