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We’ve got big news! We just launched two new call for arts on the blog -- check out the details and apply here!

A MYSTERIOUS SNAIL MAIL SWAP

PANDORA’S BOX: This chest is filled with secrets, creepy crawlies, magical talismans, baubles, spells, spirits, poisons, potions, amulets, demons, dark and deadly items.

THE TOMB: This chest is filled with treasures, artifacts, maps, codes, ancient relics, weapons, items for the afterlife, lore, and relics from days gone by.

Light grey Art Lab “Camouflage” Show

I recently got to work with wonderful folks from Light Grey Art Lab gallery on their recent show Camouflage. My piece is inspired from a story I read in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It was about a woman who escapes at night from men who try to trap her. So I came up with my concept that the woman camouflaged herself as a bird to escape!

I also got a few requests for a process post so here’s one. The background became a little pixelated upon animating the gif. Hopefully I will get better in creating them in future!

Also the show is up this month so you can check it out if you are in Minneapolis.

Join us tomorrow morning for a special guest lecture with artist Teagan White teaganwhite.com (last registration 3/13 at 10am CST) 

Teagan White is an artist and outsider naturalist devoted to the flora and fauna of a planet in decline. Their delicate gouache and watercolor paintings and intricate line drawings lament the fraught relationship between humans and the rest of the Earth, and explore the tenderness and brutality that coexist in all of Nature.

Teagan’s work is influenced by years of living in the bleak Midwest and Great Lakes region, burying roadkill, traveling by bike, and working with wildlife. They recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest, where savage coasts lined with dead seabirds and mossy old growth forests are creeping into their paintings.

We are incredibly excited to announce a big series of online Young Mystics Classes coming to Light Grey Art Lab! 

Join us for the first class Botanical Symbols of the Tarot and Their Origin Stories with Guest Speaker, Kevin Jay Stanton, Creator of the Botanica Tarot Saturday, March 6 @ 11am - 12:30pm CST

From ancient artwork to modern times, humankind has relied on a symbolic shorthand featuring flowers, leaves, and plant life to represent our pain, our passions, and our power. This online workshop brings forth a variety of sources for some of the flora that has been surrounding us for millennia and sheds light on its usage in the modern context of the Tarot we know and love. We will be discussing stories, symbols, and science behind why we have identified them to represent our human qualities.

Join Light Grey Art Lab and guest speaker Jessica Roux, Author / Illustrator of Floriography, An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers, for an insightful workshop that wanders through the Victorian Era's mysterious, romantic, ornamental, and symbolic icons.

The Mysterious Symbols of the Victorian Era <- check out the details here! The Victorian Era inspires thoughts of dark fabrics, top hats, corsets , and bustles, strict codes of courtship and romance, of arsenic-laced wallpapers with ornate patterns, of days when mediumship and alternative forms of spirituality spurred some of the most intriguing esoteric communities and how death was memorialized in photos, memento-mori, and monuments to the lost. And amongst all of these aspects of living, a language of symbols pervaded every aspect of life -- from love to loss, hope to despair.