Dear Everyone ~
I already have three events “on the books”
that I’m looking forward to in 2020.
In calendar order, here’s a little preview.
MARCH
Carla & Steve Sonheim are producing a year-long online
class called Words & Pictures. I will be videotaped in my studio,
which Carla & Steve have not visited previously.
I am doubly excited to have them here.
My segment will air on March 24,
in the same session as a video of my friend Cat Bennett.
I’ll be showcasing a simple binding technique:
a pamphlet style with a loopy link stitch, which can also
be used to sew multiple signatures into a wider spine.
The class will be 22 videos, featuring 15 artists
from around the country. The marvelous mix of visual & verbal
artists includes illustrators, painters, lettering artists, comic artists,
and writers. Carla, herself a mixed-media artist, teacher
& author, will also be in the creative line-up.
Earlier this year, I wrote about three students with whom
I’ve become chums (and correspondents!), through the online class
I videotaped at Carla & Steve’s studio in Seattle back in 2017.
If you’d like to read these posts, you’ll find them on my blog.
Shown here: Carolyn’s studio in Pennsylvania (August 22);
Virginia from Utah at my studio on an incredibly hot summer weekend,
wearing her freshly made book on her head (August 29);
and Anna in her studio in the Netherlands (October 2).
I’m looking forward to connecting with students
in the new online class, through the Facebook group
that participants automatically get to join.
It’s a wonderful use of technology to foster creative camaraderie.
APRIL
I’ll be teaching in Boston at Studio Carta the first weekend in April.
It will be the Boston debut of my triple-hyphenated
Long-stitch-link-stitch class. I’ll also be offering
Something I Haven’t Finalized Yet.
This will be my third time teaching at Studio Carta,
where Angela Liguori continues to inspire me with her way of
graciously fitting seven students at a table smaller than mine in Chicago.
JUNE
I’ll be celebrating five years of moving my studio
to The Best Block of North Lincoln.
I want to commemorate the occasion and hereby announce
that celebratory suggestions are welcome, especially via post card.
Creative ideas, and photogenic Real Mail,
will be featured in a subsequent e-blast.
Who knows what might unfold as the seasons progress?
(Michelle Litvin took this photo of me
soonish after I’d signed my lease.)
My incredulity at my good fortune is still in effect!
Optimistically,
Bari