Art, fun and community

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wendy lee lynds 2010

This past weekend was the Everett Home & Gift Show where I had an artist booth with my collage friend, Wendy Lee Lynds.  It was the first time that the show promotoers decided to add in the artistic element, hoping to encourage holiday gift buying as well as spark home decor ideas.  With many new projects, it sometimes takes a little more time for the idea to catch fire...Though it was not as crazy busy as we would have liked, we certainly had a lot of fun - visiting with artist friends, playing with watercolors and found papers, munching on chips and inspiring customers.

To provide a recap, here's a couple of photos of our booth...

Wendy did a presentation on the main stage each day of the show, demonstrating how to collage without adhesives - it was very "off the cuff" and very inspiring!

We were surrounded by other great artists...some of my favorites...
Ursula Stocke's sunflowers

Kim Groff-Harrington's hand-cut circle collage

Jennifer Lommers' flowers

Andi Shannon's textiles

Shelley Holm's typewriter clock (and it works!)

Jody Cain's necklaces made from watch parts (this was my splurge at the show!)

I had a great time collaborating with Wendy as our collage duos partnership...there may be other plans in the works...I'll keep you posted!

Ready to go

be the first
amy duncan  2010

This weekend is the Everett Home & Gift Show - I'm sharing a booth with my collage artist friend Wendy Lee Lynds.  We set up the physical arrangements yesterday - today is the art set-up and then the show opens on Friday.  The show runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday - if you're in the neighborhood, stop in to say hi!  All the details on the show (including a link for free admission tickets) can be found here.

Want to thank the Schack Art Center for supporting this venture - this is the art center in town (with a snazzy new gallery/workshop space to open next year).  They have been a great supporter of the arts and I appreciate their focus on the vitality of the artist community.

Since I'll be busy at the show, won't be posting again till early next week - I'll give you a recap on how it went!

Getting ready...

A tumble of ceramic tiles before...

A set of beautiful coasters after!

I'm busy getting ready for my upcoming art shows.  I made these coasters with digital reprints of my original multi-media collage images.  Embellished and finished by hand, they will be for sale at my booth at the Everett Home & Gift Show.  The show is October 22-24 at Comcast Arena in Everett.  Click here to receive FREE tickets to the show!

And here's another date to save - December 4 & 5 - I'll be at the Phinney Winter Festival held at the Phinney Neighborhood Center in Seattle.  This will be my tenth year at this popular holiday art show.  With over 100 artist booths, its a great opportunity to complete your holiday gift shopping.

Hope to see you at one of these shows - or maybe both!

Off on a new adventure...

This is a favorite saying at our house whenever we are doing something we're never done before - and so it seems appropriate now....I'm teaming up with Wendy Lee Lynds, fellow local collage artist to have a booth at the upcoming Everett Home & Gift Show.

We decided to join forces and have a booth together - mulitiplying our efforts and our energy.  The Everett Home & Gift Show is tweaking their focus - appealing more to the desire for home decor and gifts - and with the holidays just around the corner from this October show, we plan to offer lots of inspiration for unique gifts.
Here's the details -  
October 22-24, 2010
Comcast Arena in downtown Everett
We'll be in booths 346 & 347

We've even started a blog to focus on our efforts - keep up with all the details as well as get a preview of the goods we will be offering at collageduos.blogspot.com
Mark your calendar now - we'd love to see you there!