HAUSGUESTS

William Rabe and Nena Amsler of HAUS gallery recently put together a wonderful show called "HAUSguests" at the Brewery Project in order to raise money to help alleviate the suffering in Darfur. Each piece of art carried the name of a person -- the art works were the conceptual guests. I contributed a small installation called "Frances Jeane Crawford Thomas," consisting of a small towel bar with three huck towels (guest towels) bearing three vintage pictures of Grandmother -- sitting in the garden, in the side yard of the house in New Brighton, and at the kitchen sink.

Although the show has come down, William and Nena have photographed each work and posted the works online so that viewers can still buy art and participate in the fundraiser for Darfur. Please visit the show through the "HAUSguests online gallery" link at right and consider making a contribution.

Roses are Red. . . .

The past two months have been very hectic in the life department, but I have still been able to put up two small installations in two recent group shows. The first piece was for a Valentine show about food at the Acorn Gallery that was organized on the fly -- I put together an installation called "Sweet" that involved word and image play on the old "roses are red, violets are blue" rhyme. Here is what it looked like:



The first bag said "red", the second bag said "blue" and the third bag said "sweet."