by DCadmin | Mar 23, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibition catalog, Exhibitions, Updates
← The Reception at Gateway Gallery I’m very proud to make available a catalog of the exhibition at the Springfield Museums that my colleagues and I have put together. The show features work by Pat Gerkin, Donna Hamil Talman, Charyl Weissbach and me, at the...
by DCadmin | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Many thanks to Annette Cohen and the staff at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, for the great reception at Gateway Gallery last evening ((March 14, 2019). Thank you all who came out to see the big work. It was an absolute delight to have enough...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 3, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Workshops
I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting a day-long workshop at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on May 30, 2019 as part of the 13th International Encaustic Conference. It’s titled Mixing Your Mediums (and Maybe your Metaphors). It...
by DCadmin | Aug 11, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts
I am delighted to have been included in Ann Landi’s Vasari 21 article, What Is a Drawing? Part Three, recently. She has written about how our definition of what makes a drawing a drawing has changed over time. Part One was published in 2016 and discussed...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 24, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
This piece has been selected by Curator Theresa Choi, for the 71st Annual NHIA Members Exhibition at Sharon Arts Center Gallery from March 9 to April 22, 2018. There will be an opening reception in the gallery on Friday, March 9 from 5-7pm. The piece is...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 15, 2017 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This is another paper piece from a recent mixed media painting demonstration. It’s encaustic on Rives BFK paper, with oil and wax pigment stick, and graphite, 24 x 24...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Marvelous opening reception at Fuller Craft for SHIFTS: Approaching Encaustic from All Angles. This was an exhibition of work by New England Wax members and was juried by Ben Shattuck, lead curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, Massachusetts. Dietlind Vander...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts
Looking at work and thinking up ideas for a collaboration with poet A. Khaki for WCA/NH Text and Textiles project...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Thoughts
I drove to Maine recently to welcome my brother, who had just completed the northern half of the Appalachian Trail, for a celebratory dinner. The traffic northward was as bad as can be expected on a summer Friday, but I planned to avoid a lot of it by stopping off in...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 2, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates
A few years ago, I pulled together an online exhibition. I put out a “Call for ART” on Facebook to all the artists that I have ‘friended” . I called it Natura Viva and choose work from 39 artists who based their work on botanical themes. It...
