Baltimore Sonnets

Lamentations for a Lost Child - page from 365 series

by the beautiful colors of Autumn.  printmaking with leaves

Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb The Girl with the Curious Hat visits Rodriguez Calero's exhibit at El Museo del Barrio

Rodriguez Calero : Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos Our Lady (Nuestra Senora), 2013 Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos  is a wonderful retrospective of Calero's art. Rodriguez Calero at El Museo del Barrio, NYC Calero's work is powerful,  and acts like a moonbeam piercing darkness. Our Lady of Pop (Nuestra Senora del Pop), 2013  She masterfully combines urban street culture with Catholic iconography and Medieval religious paintings to give us a luminous vision that evokes the spiritual.  Jesus y Magdalena, 2000 Acrollage painting Acrollage is Calero's original mixed media technique that combines intricate layers of acrylic mediums/paints with various washi papers and images. Rodriguez Calero's exhibit will be on view until 19 December.

Many thanks to everyone who attended the "Make a Beautiful Book" workshop and  the library staff at Baltimore County Public Library, Parkville Branch. We began with blank papers and turned them into books. Everyone took home at least one hand-bound mini book. At one point it became so quiet, with everyone working hard on their books. This colorful 100 page accordion book was created by 5 year old Sasha. My books were on view somewhere between "Fiction and Mystery"

Now that my exhibit, Life is a Hurricane , is on view at the Baltimore County Public Library, Parkville Branch, I must finish my series Parodos.  (I have four more layers to go.)

I love the flyers BCPL created for my workshop on October 19.  Thank you!

People fool themselves.  They pray for a long life but fear old age.   ~Chinese Proverb Page from 365 series, 2015 Lucky color: Silver

Handmade in Baltimore with love . . . Parodos, 19" x 24" linocut print, 2015

Parkville-Carney Branch Exhibition, Life is a Hurricane Hanging my artwork at BCPL , Parkville-Carney Branch Please stop by to see my art exhibition during the month of October. One of a kind, handmade book with matching box on exhibit at BCPL, Parkville-Carney Branch On Monday, October 19 at 7pm I will teach the "Make a Beautiful Book " workshop. Baltimore County Book Arts Exhibition, October 2015 "Make a Beautiful Book" is FREE. Life is a Hurricane Exhibition at BCPL