Playback, touch ups and the scream

Well, yesterday Martha met with her friend and co-leader of Playback about a playback program they will be doing in September with kids from the Columbia Elementary School. The planning is going well so far. Martha also worked on touching up diptic piece that is giant abstract red leaf/organic form  - oil on canvas.

Planning for the Scream installation continued between  Peggy Gannon and I. She informed me that the lobby of the Off Jackson theater, where the piece will hang, has brick walls and some kind of a wire strung across it that she is not quite sure how to hang from. I let her know I can bring a number of tools, and kinds of hanging hardware to work with what is there and make it work. I can't wate to see the theater and get the piece installed on Saturday. that will be a busy trip fro me as I will also pick up a hundred pounds of clay from the Pottery Supply store and, time permitting, visit a wholesale wine distributor by Alki Cove


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Scream framing and international womens day project

Well, today we received a msg back about the Three Screams play project, and they very much would like to show the piece that Martha repainted just for the play. We called Denise Marker (niece of  the famous painter - Walter Graham) to do a professional framing job for us on short notice for the Three Screams theater lobby project piece. Meanwhile Martha has been working on her Keynote address for the International Women's Day Breakfast and Workshop - which she will lead. And, we submitted a description of the IWD event and submitted a picture (one of Martha's paintings) to the IWD website. this is the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day; so Martha, is very proud to have been asked to be the keynote speaker, as she should be.


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Saturday sculpting class continues

Well, the Saturday sculpting class continues to progress marvelously. It is really amazing how well the students are doing considering they have never sculpted before. Everyone had a fine time as well. I was, also, able to take some glass/crystal refraction shots...we'll see if any of them amount to anything of artistic value. Today, Martha is working with Paige Meyers from the Womens Resourse Center on their upcoming conference powerpoint presentation to take place in March.


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Giant Puppet Production

Well, last night Martha and I worked on our giant puppet project with the other volunteers at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Art Center. Learning to make giant puppets for the parade is interesting in and of itself. Believe me it's all new to us. Well not so much for Martha. In fact, she left feeling she had some different ideas about simpler ways to creat the structures of the puppet heads than what has been done in the past. There are more heads to be made; so perhaps by next meeting she'll have worked out the details of her new idea and created a prototype. Bill, the gallery director and his wife Cindy are great and great fun to work with. As it turns out, they too, did a long stint as foster parents for teenage boys, just as we did. I was really surprised at the coincidence of it. And, here we are in the same place doing the same thing (making giant puppets) and we've been in the same place, metaphorically speaking (i.e. been foster parents).


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Bruce Kids Mask Making project update

Today the kids masks were painted. Some did masks, some did little sculptures. Each had beed fired before painting. 


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Bruce hotel, Ed. project, and caladars

Yesterday was another fun filled day of art related activites. Martha went to the Bruce Hotel in Wenatchee to work with the homless kids living there on art projects to make their live a bit better, and she attended a planning meeting for an art related educational project that will take place in March. i worked on developing some calandars with Martha's art. This needs further work, then I will do the same with some of my work. tonight we both will go to the Wenatchee museum to work on the giant puppets for this May's Appleblossum parade.


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continuing work on book re-write

Yesterday Martha continued to work on the re-write of Piel de Barro. A few poems done a day and it's be done in no time. then the translation begins for a dual language version.


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Call for artists and work on art/poetry book

Yesterday a fine dqay spent going through a long list of Calls for artists and looking for those that might work for us. Sent a couple of inquieries out re: same. martha relocated some of our old writings that were pegged toward specific paintings of hers and began re-writing the Spanish text for one of her poetry books that need updating and to be put into a format for self publishing through Amazon.com.All and all progress made on these fronts. the painting above is one that martha is redoing to submit for the production of a play in Seattle that is titled 3 Screams... the plot revolving around the theft of Munches "Scream"


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Saturday class went well

Martha's first Saturday class at the Cashmere Arts and Activities Center went well. Participants were from Cashmere and Wenatchee. Each student was well on their way to having a fine first scuplture by the end of the class. After a break there was a reception for the new art show and a 6pm wine and chocolate tasting that was well received and thouroughly enjoyed by all. Martha's works have been moved to the 'Thank You' wall in the main room making room for the January featured artist up front. My works are now on the west wall of the main room. A few other photographers and photo enthusiats inquired about my abstract photos, finding them quite interseting yet puzzeling as to how they were created.


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Saturday class

Today Martha will be teaching the first of three Saturday Sculpting classes at the cashmere Art and Activity Center. Artie Bowman has been so good in getting the A and A Center going and getting these classes set up. Martha is expecting about eight students for this first class.
I will go with and check in the new Photo art that we delivered yesterday afternoon. Artie wasn't in yet to do the check in so we just droped off the art and picked up a large oils of Martha's.
After leaving the A&ACenter we went to Leavenworth to look at a Fudge factory/store with a little art gallery that is for sale... interesting. The owner Steve I believe his name was had wanted to take Martha's class, as it turns out, but couldn't as he has to work at his store today. He knew Artie as well... small world. Steve gave us a bunch more fudge than what we bought as we told him we were going to a party... What a good guy.
We also looked at the gallery/store next door that is owned by James and Jennie Jones and displays the nature photography of James and the work is superbly matted and framed by Jennie. 


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MLK Poem

Martha has written a MLK poem:

Poem to Martin Luther King Jr.                     By Martha Flores

‘’ YOU HAD A DREM”

You had a Dream of equality and peace.

Immense and abundant as the sea.

You had a Dream of harmony and tolerance.

A Dream of love for you and me.

Your voice was like a bell forever ringing.

You were our loving teacher , our father , our guide.

You were killed while preaching understanding.

But your dream never died.

Your endless vision was of peace and justice.

Dedication to non-violence was your shield.

You wanted to create a new world just for us.

A world with out inequality and prejudice.

Engraved in hearts and minds will be your mission.

Of learning to love one another with compassion.

Hoping that one day, the flag of brotherhood will fly above our nation.

And every one will know that we made reality your vision.

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Rod and Martha's Art Blog

Today Martha is working at the two River Art Gallery where we are both members and exhititors. Later this afternoon we will deliver some of my photo art to the Cashmere Art and Activities Venter, where we are both members and exhibitors as well. Yesterday we went out to Moses Lake to see the MAC Jurried Art show where we each have one piece in the current show.
After visiting with Freya hardt at the MAC yesterday I emailed her a copy of a photo of a mural Martha had done at the Museum there back in the 1990's. I was a project that was done with some local teen agers to give them something positie to do. She emailed back that that would have been in the old building where there is now a quilt shop and suggested that the mural could still be on the wall. I call ed the quilt shop and unfortunately the mural has long since been coverd over.


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