Spring Round up

Spring has arrived in the Northeast and we are alive with new energy here. After a long winter and an incredibly long year of pandemic stress, many of us are starting to feel a sense of renewal. Can you feel the energy rising?

New categories are beginning to emerge for these posts too. I hope you find them enjoyable.

Exhibition News:

Spring Release: New works by Marli Thibodeau

Visiting Belfast Maine? You guys, I am so excited to share that I have signed my first gallery contract! I’m honored to be juried into Local Color Gallery in the sweet little coastal town of Belfast, Maine. Good coffee, good art, and some wonderful summer festivals make this place worth the trip. The exhibition begins April 7. I hope the 4th Friday Art Walks will resume again in May. It has been a long year without Art Walks…

I have 2 unreleased pieces that were accepted into the JMane Gallery juried show H20 More work from this series will be released later this spring~

The Woodstock School of Art student exhibition has 2 of my pieces in their lovely virtual gallery. This work - as well as more from the liminal space collection, was from my class with Meredith Rosier

Art Girl Rising has a major project going on. They are curating a collection of women artists from around the world. It is a cornucopia of art, a feast for the soul. It’s called: Where are the women artists? They aim to remedy the fact that Female Artists Remain Drastically Under-represented. Still.

From the Art Girl Rising website:

Did you know, only 13.7% of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America are women? Of the 100 most expensive works ever sold, none are by a woman.

You can view the gallery here: https://wherearethewomenartists.com/ I’m in there somewhere, but really it is a joy to pop in there and see all the amazing women artists being represented.

My new works for spring can be viewed as a collection here I’ve curated a viewing room so they can be seen together. See something you like? Use the inquire button. Or visit the shop.

Learning always:

Spring 2021 Vision board

The Creative Visionary Program is underway, below is an image of one of my inspiration/vision boards. This year the boards feel more like me, and it reminds me of my continual evolution. I just love this from Poet Diane Ackerman on reinventing yourself:

"Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?

Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves." So good..

Art Feast: Where I write about art inspiration ~A Visit to the Isabella ~

Below is an image from my visit to the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. So many beautiful spaces.

Photo: Marli Thibodeau

This one below, with the missing Rembrandt. The room remains as it was, and the theft is still unsolved. The Museum is offering a reward of $10 million for information leading directly to the recovery of all 13 works in good condition.

Photo credit: Marli Thibodeau

And this: The magnificent atrium at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum

Photo Credit: Marli Thibodeau

I wrote about experiencing the work from artist Shen Wei: an incredible monumental exhibition showing through June 20, 2021.

Visiting with the work of Shen Wei at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum

Good Art People: Where I find Artists doing good

A shout-out to Shen Wei arts in education: http://www.shenweidancearts.org/arts-in-education

Color: A big topic, in bite-sized morsels.

One of Pantone’s Srping Colors: French Blue A stirring blue hue that awakens a vision of Paris in the springtime. Couldn’t we all use a bit of springtime in Paris?

A Poem: Inspiration + +

GATHER BY ROSE MCLARNEY

Some springs, apples bloom too soon.
The trees have grown here for a hundred years, and are still quick
to trust that the frost has finished. Some springs,
pink petals turn black. Those summers, the orchards are empty
and quiet. No reason for the bees to come.

Other summers, red apples beat hearty in the trees, golden apples
glow in sheer skin. Their weight breaks branches,
the ground rolls with apples, and you fall in fruit.

You could say, I have been foolish. You could say, I have been fooled.
You could say, Some years, there are apples.