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Celebrating Talented Friends!

Celebrating Talented Friends!

by Debra Claffey | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions

Last evening Twiggs Gallery hosted a reception for Balancing Acts, a small show of encaustic work that I was delighted to curate. Summer in the country, evening breezes beginning to cool what was a beautiful, blue-sky day. Artist-owner Adele Sanborn’s creation,...
From The Curator: This Left  and That Right, with Pamala Crabb

From The Curator: This Left and That Right, with Pamala Crabb

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,...
Interview about Balancing Acts at Twiggs Gallery this month

Interview about Balancing Acts at Twiggs Gallery this month

by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions

Here’s a pretty good interview with Kelly Sennott from The Hippo magazine about our upcoming exhibition at Twiggs...
From The Curator: Balancing Acts with Helene Farrar

From The Curator: Balancing Acts with Helene Farrar

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,...
From the Curator: Bits and Pieces with Angel Dean

From the Curator: Bits and Pieces with Angel Dean

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...
From The Curator: Q & A with Jeanne Borofsky

From The Curator: Q & A with Jeanne Borofsky

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...

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