by Debra Claffey | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Interviews
I’m so pleased to have been featured in a post by Dietlind Vander Schaaf in R&F Paints’ blog, Unique Color, both for a painting of mine that is in their permanent collection and for being one of their newly-formed group of Tier Artists. As Tier Artists...
by DCadmin | Dec 20, 2020 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions, Interviews
Fountain Street is membership-based gallery in the SOWA district of Boston. The members exhibit their own work but have also created community events, installations, and offer an online marketplace. One of their annual events is an invitational exhibition in...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 11, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Interviews
I was delighted to welcome NH Chronicles producer Mary-Paige Provost and videographer Jason Modeski to my studio for an interview. This video article aired October 16, 2019 and features my colleague, Verne Orlosk, and her fused glass artwork. My segment starts at...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts
One of the delightful parts of curating this exhibition was discovering how many artists contemplate this idea of balance in our work and in our lives. I had some questions for Pamala Crabb, an artist living in Maine, who works with wax and encaustic in paintings,...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: The Balance, encaustic on panel, 30 x 22 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Later On, encaustic and painted small person model, 4 x 4 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Middle Age,...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Angel Dean Angel Dean is an artist in Providence, Rhode Island. The work of hers that I chose for Balancing Acts at Twiggs Gallery spoke to me of “precarious balance” in the juxtaposition of so many disparate objects. She turns our throwaways into art that...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 21, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts
For the upcoming exhibition, Balancing Acts, at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen, NH later this month, I asked each of the artists for a paragraph or two about their work and our theme: Explorations of the artful life in wax and encaustic. I had Borofsky’s work in...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 9, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
This is the second in a series of interviews with the artists I’ve chosen for the exhibition, Balancing Acts, that will be taking place at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen, NH, July 30 through September 2, 2016. I hope you will join all of us at the opening reception...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
For the exhibition, “Balancing Acts”, which will be at Twiggs Gallery in Boscawen, NH, from July 30 through September 2, 2016, I’m putting together a series of interviews and/or studio visits with the artists whose work I’ve chosen for the show. The six artists,...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Interviews, Thoughts
I was very happy to get a call from writer and artist Marcia Santore recently. Would I be interested in being interviewed for an artist feature in Artscope Magazine? Ok, so I didn’t have to think about it for very long! I was delighted to collaborate on this...
