Little League Silhouette
I've been having fun creating pieces that give a snapshot from my life with my kids. The latest piece was created from a photo of my daughter practicing for her little league game. Starting with a photo, I printed it…
Quilting Bubbles
Our one-and-a-half-year-old loves bubbles more than anything else. He can stand outside blowing bubbles for hours and if we suggest changing activities or stopping for lunch, his response is always "more more bubbles!" I wanted to capture this love in…
Teaching Our Children to Bring Light
As I was making Protective Instinct, a piece about sheltering our children from all the dangers in the world, I felt like the darkness was surrounding me and wanted to make a piece to combat those feelings. While I may…
A Preschooler’s Unique Style
At two, my daughter developed strong opinions about what she wanted to wear. The brighter the better! Now, at three-and-a-half, she still loves to mix patterns and colors. I wanted to capture her unique style in a piece, so I…
Shielding our Children Part 2
In my last blog post, I started explaining how my art piece about the instinct to protect our children came to life. In that post, you can read all about the inspiration and how I created the quilt with layers…
Sheltering our Children Part 1
As a parent, especially of young children, my instinct is to keep them safe - to shelter them from everything. My kids are one and a half and three and a half. I don't want them to know there are…
Mom Guilt is Everywhere
One of the biggest challenges I've encountered in being a mother is guilt. It comes from so many different sources every day and it's exhausting. When I thought about how to depict this ubiquitous, and sometimes conflicting guilt for my parenthood series,…
Bottled: Suppressing the Self in Motherhood
I don't think I'm alone in feeling like I have put much of myself aside when I became a mother. At first, it was natural. Of course my child (and then children) were the center of my world. Everything else…
Reflections on the College Art Association and WCA Conference
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the College Art Association and Women's Caucus for Art conferences in NYC. It will come as no surprise to those of you following my recent work that the two sessions that spoke…
Torn (artist vs mother)
When I decided to create art about my life as a mother, the first thing that came to mind was the feeling of being torn between these two worlds. My first design for this piece (shown below) was two separate…