Category Archives: Words and Afterwards
Collage, A Medium for Community: Origins, Part 2
This story is the second installation in the series, “The Origins of Words & Afterwards,” to share the back story to the Greater Lansing community-arts collaboration. Please note that there are separate subscriptions for my direct blog Dey of the … Continue reading
How One Exhibit Inspired Another: Origins, Part 1
This story is the first in a series, “The Origins of Words & Afterwards,”which gives an inside look at the Greater Lansing community-arts collaboration as its project coordinator. Subscribers of my blog Dey of the Phoenix may be aware that … Continue reading
Adventures in April 2012
Recently, Dey of the Phoenix has been a quiet blog, due to the abundant fullness of my life. This month I am the featured artist of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, and an article by Dawn Gorman speaks to … Continue reading
Collage Inspirations
These days collage is all around me, with the community arts collaboration Words & Afterwards in full swing. The public workshops given in February by visual artist Gail Trapp-Bohner and myself were reported by Britteny Dee of The State News … Continue reading
Billboard Installation
This morning I watched my words stretch across a billboard! As a recipient of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing‘s Emerging Artist Grant (2011), I was eligible to take part in this promotional program, a collaboration between the ACGL and … Continue reading
Words and Afterwards: Collage Workshops
In DotP‘s last post, “Greetings for 2012“, I mentioned a new direction in my creative work. The first expression of this path is a community collaboration titled “Words and Afterwards,” which presents art-making workshops and an arts exhibition about violence … Continue reading