If you count houses, studios, apartments, and storage units I’ve moved eleven times since 2010, six of them in the last six months. Not surprisingly, I’ve been having difficulty keeping track of all that has happened. I decided to take a page, or maybe it’s a post, out of friend, and fellow artist, Megan Chapman’s [...]
Storm Warning • 13″ x 15″ • Dye on Cloth • ©2011 Jennifer Libby Fay My Dig Deep Button is broken. I didn’t realize it until I read Tracey Hewitt’s delightful blog post, It’s All about Sunsets. Seems Tracey’s Dig Deep Button is broken too. Sometimes my Dig Deep Button breaks because of too much [...]
Lifting fabric from the dye bath • ©2011 Mike Hagerty My dear family and friends, Thank you for your patience with me these past two months while I was working on a large, 10′ by 8′, commission for the JB Hunt headquarters lobby in Lowell, Arkansas. I know I haven’t been in contact with you [...]
Winter Sunset Scarf • 10″ x 72″ • ©2010 Jennifer Libby Fay On the morning of Christmas Eve there was only had one errand left. We were on our way to the Fed Ex substation to pick up the case of wine I’d ordered from Hafner Vineyard, one of our favorite California wineries. “Do you [...]
It Simply Stays Within the Heart • 20″x 20″ • Dye on Cloth • ©2010 Jennifer Libby Fay My mother is very good at the art of gift giving, (she’s also skilled in the art of letter writing, but that’s another story). When my brother and sister and I were young, birthdays and Christmases were [...]
Felicity.01 • Dye on Fabric • 5″x 5″ • ©2010 Jennifer Libby Fay I will always have a soft spot in my heart for The Arts Center of the Ozarks. Readers of this blog will remember back in July I was awarded the Postcard Prize for the Artist’s of Northwest Arkansas Regional Art Exhibition by [...]
Repair • Hand dyed fabric • 10″ x 8″ • ©2009 Jennifer Libby Fay A few years ago, hmm, maybe more than a few, it’s difficult to keep track, I decided I wanted to do some more handweaving. I took a break from weaving for about 5 years when my work as a product designer [...]
Fayetteville Underground • Studio 11 • 5/6/10 This was my studio on Thursday night. I was prepared for the 800 to 1000 people who attend First Thursday Fayetteville. Every month new work goes up in each of the Fayetteville Underground’s four art galleries and a craftperson is featured in the craft gallery. We host a [...]
Where Stranger’s Dreams Cling • 30″ x24″ • ©2010 Megan ChapmanClick on image to see more paintings in this seriesMy friend Megan says I need a new blog post. She is ready to move on from Blue Oyster Cult. I listen to Megan. She knows things. She knows about Fayetteville, Facebook and blogging. She knows [...]
I often listen to the University of Arkansas student run radio station on my drive from the studio to home. The other night I heard this exchange between two DJs: DJ 1: Hey, the band Blue Oyster Cult is playing at the Arkansas Music Pavilion on May 22nd—we should check it out. DJ 2: Blue [...]
I Love a Surprise • Hand Dyed Fabric • 28″ x 15″ • ©2010 Jennifer Libby Fay Blog Triage Class: Lesson 5 Curing Blog Envy. Assignment: Find a blog you are envious of, analyze it, use what you learn to make your blog better. The Year in Pictures is a “record of photography (and a [...]
Call Me From Heaven7″ x 5″, Mixed Media There are about six blogs that I read religiously. I put them in my bookmarks toolbar and check them out when I have time. As I mentioned, I am taking a class in blogging. For our assignment to answer the question, “who is my ideal reader”, I [...]
My Studio at the Fayetteville UndergroundI finally pushed the button that lets everyone read my blog. So far, I am pretty sure no one has, but if you had been in my studio yesterday, I think you would have found it amusing. A studiomate came by and asked me what I was doing. I told [...]
Years ago during a career counseling workshop, I took the Myers Briggs Type Indicator personality test. After the class was over, the counselor came over to me and said, “In all the years I have been administering this test I have never seen anyone score so high in the Introvert range…almost at the very end [...]
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