EAST COAST TRIP

 A paper Offering on the Pond in Central Park, New York City

        Bound Unbound, Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao at the Asia Society, New York City
                                                  The Proliferation of Thread Winding

           All the Same

           Gabriel Orozco's Asterisms at the Gugenheim Museum in New York City

         Performers in Central Park, Manhattan

       View from the train to New Hampshire -  public art in Massachusetts

    Old man tree at Water Run Farm, West Chesterfield, New Hampshire

Son, Mark, apple-feeding Mac

These are some of the fond memories of museum visits and experiences with family and friends on
our recent journey to the East coast.

ROOTS EXHIBIT IN TELLURIDE, COLORADO

Here are some photos of the installing and the opening reception  of the traveling exhibit "Roots".

The gallery is at the Ah Haa School for the Arts that is situated in the old train station in downtown Telluride.  The fall color made my time there quite exciting.  I had assists from friends Carol Ozaki of Durango and Meredith Nemirov of Ridgeway, Colorado.

DURANGO OPEN STUDIO TOUR

I will be participating in the Durango, Colorado two weekend Open Studio Tour.

October 13/14 & 20/21 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Durango | Bayfield | Ignacio Greetings!   Mark your calendars and make plans to tour 33 artists studios in Durango, Bayfield and Ignacio, Colorado during the 4th Annual Durango Open Studios tour & art sale on Saturday & Sunday, October 13/14 & 20/21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Visit our website to read more about the artists, see ouronline Tour Guide & Map and download a tour map to plan your art routes for two great weekends! Our Studio Headquarters will host Open Doors - A Taster Exhibition of  Durango Open Studios - an on-going exhibit of all participating artists' work atDurangoSpace, 1221 Main Avenue in Durango beginning October 10 - 31. The opening reception is Friday, October 12 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Be sure and stop by and view the artists' work, pick up a a copy of the Tour Guide & Map and check out scheduled artists demonstrations throughout the Studio Tour weekend!  D U R A N G O O P E N S T U D I O S participating artists Marge Barge | Milt Beens | Nick Blaisdell | Diane Brandt | Robert Bridges |Cindy Coleman | Kasey Correia | Sandra Cushman |Barbara Edidin | Mar Evers | Adam Field | Paul Folwell | Jan Goldman | Jonas Grushkin | Lee Heesoo | Trefny Dix & Bengt Hokanson | Mariah  Kaminsky | Louden Kiracofe |Rebecca Koeppen | Heather Leavitt Martinez | Mary Ellen Long | June McCartney | Meg McDonald | Lorna Meaden | Jane Mercer | Judy Morgan |Meredith Rose | Diana Ruthers | Cynthia Schroeder | Pat Senecal | Marikay Shellman | Ann Smith | Lorraine Trenholm  For more information, contact Denise Leslie at (970) 403-1590. Open Studio Tours produces events throughout the Four Corners region that provide the public a rare opportunity to visit with artists at work in their studios, delivering an insider thrill and unique insight to the creation process. Open Studio Tours is presented by Arts Perspectivemagazine - a quarterly publication reflecting the diversity of arts in Colorado and west of the Rocky Mountains.

ROOTS AT AH HAA, TELLURIDE

 Off to Telluride, Colorado to install another showing of my traveling exhibit "Roots".

CALIFORNIA TRIP

September: A vacation...and musical and art trip.....from downtown L.A. to the beach at Del Mar, California. Saw the L.A. venue of the Melody Gardot U.S. tour in which our son, Mitchell (second from the right) played guitar.  After the U.S. tour, they are off to Europe for 2+ months.  Fabulous!

On this trip I visited my gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica - Lora Schlesinger.  Then when in Del Mar I stopped at UCSD Mandeville Special Collections where 5 paperworks found a home.  The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library was also on my itinerary.  Beach time with a little fog and alot of sun warm waters.

Workshop Book Art

The Victoria Rabinowe Dream workshop recently took place
at the Durango Arts Center.
This is a page from my book that details visually
a dream about the sea, a house, and my fear.

Friends of the Art Library  (FOAL) at the Durango Arts Center

present

A BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP

WITH

ALICIA McKIM

DENVER BOOK ARTIST, PRINTMAKER & CALLIGRAPHER

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INTERPRETING MEMORY: AN EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND CULTURE THROUGH ARTISTS’ BOOKS

In this workshop students will investigate their own perception of family and culture as they generate concepts for an artist’s book through readings, group exercises and viewing historical and contemporary book works.

Each participant will create their own artist’s book through a guided exploration that incorporates book design, narrative and techniques for reproducing word and image.

We will be working with a modified version of the Secret Belgian Binding, which lends itself well to the integration of small objects and sewing single pages of varying size together.

This workshop is for anyone interested in creating an artist’s book, whether in digital form or executed entirely by hand.

Saturday and Sunday

SEPTEMBER  8 AND 9

DURANGO ARTS CENTER, EDUCATION STUDIO  (9:30-4:30)

DAC MEMBERS - $125.

NON-MEMBERS - $150.

materials fee - $25.

$50. deposit required for registration                             DEADLINE: AUGUST 25

CONTACT: MARY ELLEN LONG , 970-259-4363 FOR INFO & TO REGISTER

                      Alicia McKim, teacher -  Secret Belgium Binding

Artists' Market participation

Here are a few examples of new collage that will be shown at the outdoor Artists' Market in Durango near my home and studio.  This series of collage are framed and presented in vintage photo folders.  An outdoor market setting is not my usual venue for showing my collage and mixed media art but the event should be fun and help support the arts in the local community.

This is an exciting event coming to Durango in SW Colorado

FRIENDS OF THE ART LIBRARY AT THE DURANGO ARTS CENTER 

present a workshop with Santa Fe artist and dreamer

 VICTORIA RABINOWE

SATURDAY, JULY 28 (9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m)

DREAMS: THE DOORWAY TO IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY

Dreams offer an authentic link to the creative source.  Learn to decipher their enigmatic codes. Unravel the riddles of the night.  Fill your journal with maps, myths and memories.  Discover an unlimited fountainhead  of inspiration for your artwork

SUNDAY, JULY 29 (9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.)

MAZE BOOKS & NON-LINEAR BOOK DESIGN

Create energetic multi-dimensional and dynamic books from sheets of 12”x12” papers.  By folding, cutting and nesting the papers into geometric mazes, we will manipulate the flat material into a form that springs open into an architectural shape with ridges, indentations and pop-ups 

FOR BOTH DAYS: DAC MEMBERS - $125

                                          NON-MEMBERS - $150

ONE DAY ONLY  (EITHER DAY) :  DAC MEMBERS - $65

                                                                     NON-MEMBERS - $80

        materials fee - $10              

   $50 depositt required for registration

CONTACT: MARY ELLEN LONG    for info &  to register

EDGEMONT  HIGHLANDS

DURANGO, COLORADO

 ART ALONG THE TRAILS

GUIDED HIKES BY THE ARTIST 

  MARY ELLEN LONG

Saturday, July 14, 9:00-11:00

(the first half of the trail system)

Sunday, July 15, 9:00-11:00

(the second half of the trail system)

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Saturday, August 18, 9:00-11:00

(the first half of the trail system)

Sunday, August 19, 9:00-11:00

(the second half of the trail system)

PLEASE CONTACT MARY ELLEN LONG

FOR RESERVATIONS

WMELART@YAHOO.COM

ON-LINE EXHIBIT

I am currently having a small show of collage/mixed media work on the virtual.tart.co.nz site organized by Dale Copeland of Okato, New Zealand.  Dale is the founder of the International Collage Exchange which I participate in each spring.  Have a look.

MY SUMMER STUDIO WORKSHOPS

IN DURANGO COLORADO

COLLAGE

JULY 7

basic techniques

understanding of adhesives

PAPERMAKING

 AUGUST 4

basic “kitchen” techniques

western and eastern style methods

emphasis on local fibers

BOOK ARTS

AUGUST 11

review of all styles

bindings and sculptural forms

ALL WORKSHOPS

beginning to experienced

consultation on individual projects

all materials supplied

small classes

10-4

$65 ea.

 FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO REGISTER

wmelart@yahoo.com

ADDENDUM TO WINTER PRESSING BOOK

I have just added an Addendum to my Winter Pressing Book that documented my paper buried under winter snow from 1983 to 2009.  Since I am continuing this ritual (3 Pressings to date),  I have designed the Addendum as an unbound collection.

New Work

Each year I continue my ritual of burying paper under winter snows.  The result is a print documentation of that particular winter - the amount of moisture, etc.  The Winter Pressing
2011-12 recorded 55" of snowfall in the forest adjacent to my studio.  

This Pressing then took the form of an artists' book enclosed in a box.
The binding is simply 2 leather threads running through single sheet pages.  The information about this Pressing is recorded on the first few pages (paper laid December 1 2011 and harvested March 20, 2012) and then a quote from John Muir is placed on the remaining pages..."I went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown for going out I found, was really going in. "

 Language Bound

 Winter Pressing 2007-08

My artists' books Language Bound and Winter Pressing 2007-08 have recently been placed in the Special Collections of the Penrose Library at the University of Denver.  Vamp and Tramp Booksellers (Vicky and Bill Stewart) facilitated this placement as they have with so much of my work.  I appreciate this news since 3 other artists' books of mine are in that collection.

Emergence

The artists' book - The Walk, The Wild, The Way and the mixed media work Emergence have just been selected for the Annual Durango Arts Center Juried Show through June.

My artists' book "Peace" has found a home in the Jean Library at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

This collage series "Black Silver" that combines nature-altered spirit paper, wasp paper, Japanese calligraphy, and mica has been placed in a Beverly Hills collection by the Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California