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The Twist Drill building will hold an open studio with 20-25 studios opening for the day on May 5th from noon to 5pm. We are thrilled to announce we will be open, and plan to have some appetizers and refreshments. We hope you will take this as your invitation to visit.

I am participating in an Instagram month long posting assignment to introduce the world to my art, my life and my ways. Its called Meet the maker March. As you can see we are at March 6th and the only prompt is tasks. I thought long and hard about where to go with this prompt. Honesty is always the best – so i leaned into a note pad and started to list tasks that i do which involve my art, the…

Winter, new year and planning

Did you ever have a time when you have so much to do and it’s almost overwhelming? This part of winter after the holidays are over is always a time of planning, taking stock of the past year, paying taxes, planning the new year in terms of applying for jury dark shows and some much-needed downtime to just get little projects at home done. On this snowy Friday morning I hate to admit I’m on my 2nd…

Another fun pet portrait

My old boss asked me to paint this pup on a pillow she wished to gift her friend. The pup was an inseparable part of her friend’s life, until they passed. It’s always emotional to know the pain of grief someone is experiencing with the loss of a pet.over the years we have walked that path enough to know they leave a void in life that is difficult to get through. My prayer is that portrait…

I am an artist!!! How funny to type that sentence... and realize i am living it. As a child i loved art more than anything. give me paper, crayons, scissors, glue and turn me loose. As i grew up there was a steady diet of art classes.

How funny to type that sentence… and realize i am living it. As a child i loved art more than anything. give me paper, crayons, scissors, glue and turn me loose. As i grew up there was a steady diet of classes in various types of art… and i returned to sketching, doodling, and drawing. College came along, and my big dream was to major in Art, and make my career in the arts. Then it happened. I…

Today is a free day in Meet the Maker March challenge, so we wanted to share a bit more about the building we make our studio in. Located on Superior avenue between East 25 Street and East 26 Street is a stately 1910 brick warehouse and garment factory

Today is a free day in Meet the Maker March challenge, so we wanted to share a bit more about the building we make our studio in. Located on Superior avenue between East 25 Street and East 26 Street is a stately 1910 brick warehouse and former garment factory. In fact all of the buildings from East 20th to the I90 bridge were once a beehive of clothing production. Our building is 7 stories, and…

What fuels your creativity?

Each of us are different, and what motivates and inspires one person may be completely different that that of another. I have been asking myself that question because since the pandemic it has felt that my creativity has been absent. Here is the list of things that inspire me: Nature – whether walking through a beautiful park, or hands in the soil gardening there is something regenerating for my…

So what is on your desk?

We are continuing the series on meet the maker march with answering this question. First a caution, our studio is a working place so it is not always tidy, but in the midst of the chaos we have a very productive space. On the bench for Steve are 4 batches of soap that have been curing and need to be cut and wrapped. And he has a few recipes in various stages of preparation…molds lined with…