Creativity Friday: Creative Women’s Networking Salon postponed—and other news

Between holidays, work, and travels, our informal monthly gathering of creative women has been postponed until May. Here are the details:

Friday, May 6, 7-9:30 pm
Creative Women’s Networking Salon

Are you an artist, writer, or creative entrepreneur and practioner? Come out and meet other like-minded women for conversation, inspiration, and wine. At previous salons, we were joined by photographers, crafters, editors, designers, artists, writers, and illustrators. $5 suggested donation for refreshments.

This event takes place at:

Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio-gallery
1501 Newkirk Avenue
entrance on Marlborough Road across from Rite Aid
Brooklyn, NY 11226
directions

In the meantime, here are photos* from our last gallery event, a wonderful children’s art workshop by INKBLOTS author Margaret Peot. The kids had a wonderful time! Several of Margaret’s beautiful pieces are featured in our current exhibition, The Art of Children’s Books: Inspiration to Illustration. The exhibition is up through May. I hope those of you in the New York City area will stop by to see it!

*Photographs courtesy and copyright Bernadette Ayers. Thank you!

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As you may have noticed from this blog, things have gotten beyond busy here at the studio. This spring, I’m attempting to finish up a number of projects—not including the current draft of THE LILY MAID and the long-aborning Sacred World Oracle—as well as some book and web design jobs. I’m also going to be traveling to San Diego for the Historical Novel Society’s annual conference, and partaking in workshops for professional development.

To give me the space to do all this and more, for the time being I’m going to be ramping back a bit on gallery events. Our next tarot salon probably won’t be until this autumn, after I have a chance to catch my breath on all these deadlines. Ditto for publishing and art workshops. However, the gallery will still be open on Saturday afternoons, during special events on Fridays nights, and by appointment or by chance.

So, if you’re planning to come by to visit, I hope to see you then—and if I seem a little distracted and the studio a bit messier than usual, you’ll understand why.

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Creativity Friday: Closing reception, ON THE ROAD OF BONES

I’m so very close to finishing up this DOOMED QUEENS follow up princess proposal that it’s frustrating — hopefully today! It’s been an amazing amount of work, ut as soon as I think “that’s it!” I find another way to improve it. And I’m the sort of person who can’t let go of a project unless I feel that I’ve done everything I can on it. It’s a blessing and a curse.

In the midst of this, mucho activity is going on at the gallery. The big news is that our current exhibit, On the Road of Bones: Ghosts of the Siberian Gulag Along the Old Kolyma Highway is closing tomorrow. I hope you’ll join us for a last look at this stunning exhibit! The curator will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the coldest place on earth. We’ll also have refreshments. Here are the details:

Saturday, March 5th, 1 – 4 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION: ON THE ROAD OF BONES
Children welcome. Free admission.

About this exhibit: Through photography and mixed media, this exhibition reveals the secret history and natural beauty of Kolyma, formerly the land of Soviet labor camps and the coldest inhabited region in the world. Stunning new works by young native Siberian photographers Bolot Bochkarev, Nastya Borisova, and Ajar Varlamov trace the remains of the vast highway built across the taiga, tundra, and permafrost of North Asia by Stalin’s prisoners. “On the Road of Bones” juxtaposes the events of the hidden past with the power of the frozen landscape and the contemporary lives of people in the far north. Learn more at OntheRoadofBones.com.

This event takes place at:
Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio-gallery
1501 Newkirk Avenue (entrance on Marlborough Road, across from Rite Aid)
http://www.artandwords.com/events.html
directions

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Our next exhibit opens the following Saturday! Here’s the poster for it:

More information to come very very soon—as soon as I get this long-aborning proposal off my desk!

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Creativity Friday: Creative Women’s Salon — and a quick update

Tonight’s the night: the Creative Women’s Networking Salon returns to the gallery for the first time since 2010. I’ll have red wine, chocolate, and other yummy refreshments to stoke your inspiration. Here are the details:

Friday, February 25, 7 – 9:30 pm
CREATIVE WOMEN’S NETWORKING SALON

Are you an artist, writer, or creative entrepreneur and practioner? Come out and meet other like-minded women for conversation, inspiration, and wine! At our previous gatherings, we were joined by photographers, crafters, editors, designers, artists, writers, and illustrators. We also had a lot of fun. $5 suggested donation for refreshments. Directions and address.

Hope to see you there!

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In other creativity-related news, Thea’s been home from school this past week. We’ve had some delightful adventures including a road trip to the fabulous Eric Carle Museum. Their bookstore there is one of the best I’ve ever been to — I definitely broke the bank buying books for myself and Thea. But now I’m very backlogged with work, alas, and am dealing with the perpetual struggle to balance everything. Here’s what’s going on here:

~ Preparing for the new children’s book illustration show. I have five wonderful illustrators lined up, but think I need one more. The show opens in mid-March, so time is getting tight!

~ Finishing up the long-aborning book proposal for the DOOMED QUEENS follow up, which is about (drum roll) princesses. It’s probably the most design-intense job I’ve done since my iPhone apps.

~ Revising the next part of THE LILY MAID for a novel-writing workshop I’m taking in April at the Sackett Street Writers. It’s the first writers’ workshop I’ve taken since (gulp) college. I’m excited but anxious.

~ Research, research, and more research for both THE LILY MAID and the princess proposal! I have a tall pile of books that I’m wading through — great stuff! They range from books on the history of fairy tales to Victorian sexual obsessions and nineteenth century medical history and Wilhelm Wundt and early anthropology and science of the Enlightenment and more. Gotta love my job!

~ On top of that, I’ve gotten in several design jobs — websites to cd design to book trailer videos. The cd design is for composer Robert Patterson, who’s written a chamber music suite inspired by my BOOK OF GODDESSES. It was debuted last summer—it’s wonderful. I feel so thrilled and honored to be involved.

~ Plus I’m in the midst of publicizing Art and Words Editions, my new e-book imprint. I’m about half-way through my “to-do” list with that — I want to get my authors’ books out there as much as possible.

~ And more, believe it or not. Thea’s sixth birthday is coming up in March, so there’s much to celebrate.

It’s all good. But it’s also a bit overwhelming. And with that, I should get to work!

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Reminder: Tarot Salon Friday night!

In time for Valentine’s Day, our most popular gallery event returns! As featured in Time Out New York, the Village Voice, Brooklyn Based, the New York Post and more. Here are the details:

Friday, February 11, 7-9:30 pm
TAROT SALON – VALENTINE’S DAY EDITION
Free admission and refreshments.

Have a love or relationship question? Or just looking to gain inspiration and insight? Treat yourself to a tarot reading on the question of your choice! Readings available at a variety of prices from urban shaman Mama Donna Henes and Lover’s Path Tarot creator Kris Waldherr. Feeling stressed? Fran Dunston of Fusion Therapy Spa will offer massages at $1 a minute.

We’ll also have an array of last minute Valentine’s Day gifts available for purchase: romantic books by local authors and artists, gorgeous prints, card decks, and more. So come have a glass of wine and unwind!

This event takes place at
KRIS WALDHERR ART AND WORDS
1501 Newkirk Avenue (entrance on Marlborough Road, across from Rite Aid)
Brooklyn, NY 11226
347-406-5811

Click here for additional directions.

(Psst: Because of Kris’s book deadlines, our next tarot salon won’t return until later in the spring. So hope to see you there!)

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Creativity Friday: Creative Women’s Networking Salon tonight—and other news

Live in NYC? Looking to meet with kindred creative women? Tonight is your night:

Friday, November 19, 7-9:30 pm
Creative Women’s Networking Salon

Are you an artist, writer, or creative entrepreneur and practioner? Come out and meet other like-minded women for conversation, inspiration, and wine. At previous salons, we were joined by photographers, crafters, publishing people, designers, artists, writers, and illustrators. Suggested donation: $5 for refreshments.

This event takes place at:
Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio-gallery
1501 Newkirk Avenue
entrance on Marlborough Road across from Rite Aid
Brooklyn, NY 11226
347-406-5811

Hope to see you there!

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In other news, I’m off to London on Tuesday (yes, this coming Tuesday!) for just under a week. Though the primary purpose of my trip is to research THE LILY MAID and the long-aborning DOOMED QUEENS follow up, I have another important task to take care of: I’m bringing my grandmother’s ashes “home.”

My grandmother, Doris Ivy Prince, was born in Kent, England but migrated to the United States as a young woman with my mother. Nana passed away two years ago at the very ripe age of 92—I know she always wanted to return back to noble Albion.

I plan to scatter her ashes in a lovely field outside the Anglican church where she worshiped so many years ago. Here’s hoping for a lovely day, or at the least, one without a heavy downfall. Having lived in the UK for a year, I’m too aware of the capricious quality of English weather.

On the research side, I have a very full plate! I plan to visit:

The V & A (research and inspiration)

The Tate Gallery (to visit Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott and Rossetti’s Beata Beatrice)

Primrose Hill (an important character in THE LILY MAID lives there)

Royal Academy of Art (a scene takes place during a Royal Academy vernissage)

The Museum of the City of London (to research Victorian London)

Oxford (another key scene in my novel takes place there)

Highgate Cemetery (to visit the grave of Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti’s tragic muse)

Liberty of London’s (inspiration and retail therapy)

and much more. My hotel (in South Kensington, natch!) has wifi—will do my best to update while I’m there.

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