BOOK PLACEMENT

Recently my WINTER PRESSING 2012-13 has been placed in the Mandeville Special Collections,  UCSD (University of California, San Diego) in La Jolla.  For more information see blog post June 3, 2013.

BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP

Coming up Saturday, May 17.  Artists studio workshop

  A few spaces available.  Join the fun!

ORGANIC ART INSTITUTE

I have recently been included on the new Organic Art Institute website. organicartinstitute.org.  Check it out.

WINTER PRESSING 2013-14

Another year I have buried paper under winter snow and harvested it in the spring.  This winter was very mild, only 27 inches at my location north of Durango at 7000+ feet.  The paper was used in a book about the rivers of the world.  This book is a companion for the wall installation "Roots into Rivers" recently exhibited in California and Durango.  The construction is my own invention.  The maps of various rivers are drawn on the nature-altered paper and vellum is overlaid with the ink-jetprinted name of the river.

COLLAGE WORKSHOP

Still time and room to sign up for my first workshop of the season - COLLAGE - in the Durango studio of Mary Ellen Long, Saturday, April 26 - 10 to 4.

2014 ARTIST STUDIO WORKSHOPS

MARY ELLEN LONG

209 El Diente Drive, Durango

COLLAGE -April 26

basic techniques/understanding of adhesives/composition

BOOK ARTS - May 17

review of all styles/bindings & sculptural forms/individual projects

PAPER-MAKING - June 28

basic “kitchen” techniques/western & eastern style methods/emphasis on local fibers

COLLAGE - July 19

ENVIRONMENTAL ART - August 16

history of land art with a hands-on outdoor experience (lunch included)

PAPER-MAKING - September 20

BOOK ARTS - October 18

all workshops - beginning to experienced

small classes and consultation on individual projects

all materials supplied

10-4

$65.

INFORMATION & TO REGISTER

wmelart@yahoo.com  

One view of the studio....

"JOURNEY..." EXHIBIT AT OPEN SHUTTER

Correction to the last day of this exhibit:  Wednesday, April 2.  

JOURNEY OF THE ARTIST AT OPEN SHUTTER GALLERY

Here are some shots of the Open Shutter Gallery exhibit.  A reminder and correction on the time of my slide talk to be given at 5:30-7 tonight, March 11.

Added to the exhibit are a multitude of my "Nature Bundles" pinned on the wall and displayed on shelves, etc.

JOURNEY OF AN ARTIST at OPEN SHUTTER GALLERY

EXHIBIT 

The Red Room at Open Shutter Gallery

MARY ELLEN LONG

Photographs documenting

the artists outdoor environmental art including a selection of artists’ books that use photography in unconventional ways.

opening Friday,

March 7, 5-8 p.m.

continuing until April 9

This exhibit is an extension

of the exhibit “Journey of an

Artist: The Art of Mary Ellen

Long” at Fort Lewis College

Art Gallery through March 19

     Stone Dream Deep, Clearview trails, Durango, Colorado

    Seed Circle Residence in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

   Waters Past at Edgemont Highlands, Durango, Colorado

    Kelp Spiral (in process) in Anguilla, British West Indies

      

SLIDE TALK

A presentation of images by the artist telling the story of her work in the landscape over a 30 year period.

Tuesday, March 11, 5-6:30 p.m.

OPEN SHUTTER GALLERY  735 Main Avenue   382-8355

JOURNEY OF AN ARTIST

The exhibit "Journey of an Artist: The Art of Mary Ellen Long" is now open.  It has been wonderful to see where I have been in this art adventure of 49 years!  Putting up selections of work done through these many years is quite a revelation.

Center image: "From the Forest Library" (nature-altered book pages)
Pedestals: artists' books and box art

 Center installation: "Aspen" drawings, "Roots into Rivers" (nature-altered paper and sand drawing)

Side gallery framed by cast paper "Aspens",  "Cloud Root Paper", handmade paper hanging book
Wall: "Sequence I-III, painting with leaves,

Side gallery: framed collage, mixed media work, artists' books

 "Awakening" collage; "Sands, Signs, Symbols". handmade paper scroll; Center gallery:
prints, mixed media wall work, artists' books - RECEPTION  SHOTS BELOW -