venita | August 4, 2008
Well I have an update on how my gallery visit went. I arrived at The Blessing today at about lunch time and met with Jenni and her husband Doug. They opened Blessing for Home & Life last October. It is inside of Annapurna Restaurant. They specialize in religious icons, statues, scents, teas and much more. They [...]
venita | August 4, 2008
Many of the artists continued to say the show was much slower for them. And it would be a few hours before I got my first sale of the day. But, all in all it was an amazing day!!! In the morning, a gentleman stopped by to show his friend my work. He was there [...]
venita | August 4, 2008
Set up happened on Friday afternoon, you had a time slot to come in and do your set up. I was on South Lincoln between San Francisco and East Palace Avenue in booth 134. Nancy, Sara, & LeAnn helped put up the tent and then had to head out for a store visit. So, I [...]
venita | July 22, 2008
Well it is almost here! I think I mentioned in one of my earlier post, that I have been accepted into the Girls Inc. of Santa Fe 36th Annual Arts & Crafts Show. It is the first weekend in August. And there are 250 artists that will be in the show. You had to be [...]
venita | July 14, 2008
What a fascinating selection this week. I have been working on a piece for submission to Cloth Paper Scissors. The call is for pieces that represent “A Tea Party.” And low and behold Mixed Media Monday selected “tea” for this week. I think one might call that Serendipity. The piece is for my mother-in-law who [...]
venita | July 7, 2008
Well I am a little late posting today. But, I still want to share my Mixed Media Monday piece. The theme this week is to use a singular color and all its variations. So, I thought of my dear friend Kelly Kilmer and decided I would work in pink. I have this great vintage image [...]
venita | June 29, 2008
I got a chance to have lunch on Friday with Laurie Zuckerman. She is an artist, teacher, photographer and amazing shrine maker. If you have perused my website (www.venitahawkins.com) you will have seen her photography. She took the majority of the photos on both my website and blog. Next year, 2009, she will be doing [...]
venita | June 26, 2008
You would think I would give up submitting to shows, but NO!!!!!!! I sent in my five slide submission today. The show is December 12 – 21, 2008. Many of my friends have encouraged me to enter. It is suppose to be a large show done at the Arvada Art Center. They sell traditional art, glass, [...]
venita | June 26, 2008
Well to my surprise the notice came in on Tuesday. “It is with regret that we did not accept any of your work….” I should have been really sad about it. But, my response was quite different then when I received the rejection notice from the Emerging Artist submission. I was oddly not really sad. [...]
venita | June 23, 2008
Well this is it, a collage for the latest challenge of “place”. Once again I had bazillion ideas and this time I finally settled on my piece “What About India”. It is a collage of all things from India. The background is a newspaper from India that my husband brought back from his visit there [...]
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