This Friday's Feature artist is Luis Dourado!

"I’ve always liked the idea of mind traveling and moving.
  When I look into maps, I start floating a little bit,
  remembering the places I’ve been."
                                                                                                            ~ Luis Dourado

To find out more about Luis Dourado, visit his website here!

TGIF!
Mary^

This Friday's Feature artist is Flora Kao!

I’m especially drawn to her City Studies painting series – their layers of blue lines and overlapping patterns of city maps. These paintings and rich blues resemble antique blueprints.

Flora Kao writes:
I am fascinated by the psychological potential of urban and constructed spaces. Yielding moments of perceptual clarity, my work isolates and brings into focus inconspicuous yet omnipresent aspects of everyday existence. In excavating details like the hum of electricity, the relentless city grid, or the sterility of institutional space, I seek to inspire a heightened awareness of our relationship to the built environment.

1 chunky red day-a-page 2012 Moleskine journal size 3 ½” x 5 ½” x 26 WCA chapters with 1400 members = 425 opportunities to make art for WCA’s 40th anniversary!

Currently, a little red journal is on an expedition across the country to celebrate Women’s Caucus for Art’s 40th anniversary. Chapter members are embellishing the Moleskine journal pages with art and inspiration! In January 2013, the book will be auctioned during the New York WCA Conference. One lucky bidder will own a fabulous collection of art created by WCA members from all across the country!

The Little Red Traveling Journal began in Northern California in October 2011, and then traveled to Washington DC. From there it traveled on from one chapter to the next to St. Louis! I just mailed the journal to Philadelphia! And it will continue to travel until the end of the year!

The Little Red Traveling Journal is full of creativity and collaboration, and celebration of 40 years of:
recognizing the contributions of women in the arts, providing women with leadership opportunities and professional development, expanding networking and exhibition opportunities for women, supporting local, national, and global art activism, and and advocating for equity in the arts for all!

Have a great, creative week!
Mary^

Keeping my eyes on my mailbox!
Mary^

This Friday's Feature artist is Tucker Nichols!
I love that the world is his canvas – literally!

Besides creating cartographic drawings and paintings on a variety of surfaces, Nichols also does photography and sculptures!
Seeing his work makes me want to draw maps everywhere I go!

From his bio:
Tucker Nichols’ work is simultaneously elegant, low-tech, humorous, and deceptively simple, and usually involves drawing and painting on paper or directly on walls and windows. Common themes include fragments of found text, anonymous buildings, maps without any sense of scale, and other ambiguous remnants of our everyday world. Much of his work borders on abstraction, as if the presented subject has been left behind for so long it is no longer recognizable. Nichols’ work is as much about process as it is about the resulting work.