Publishing Monday: HNS update coming soon….

I haven’t forgotten about posting about my experiences at the Historical Novel Society conference in San Diego. I’m just totally snowed under with work and responsibilities and solo parenting.

In the meantime, here are a few recaps from the following participants:

Elizabeth Kerri Mahon – author of SCANDALOUS WOMEN

Teralyn Rose Pilgrim – she has a series of posts about HNS.

Susan Spann – ditto as Teralyn.

C. W. Gortner – author of THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI and THE TUDOR SECRET.

Christy English – author of TO BE QUEEN.

I know there are lots of other HNS updates out there—send me your links if you have one. And my update coming soon!

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Gallery events this weekend: Creative Women’s Salon and Children’s Art Show closing

This is a busy weekend at my studio gallery! We have two great events planned. If you live in the NYC area, I hope you’ll join us!

Friday, June 10, 7-9:30 pm
CREATIVE WOMEN’S NETWORKING SALON
Suggested donation for refreshments: $5.

As featured on Brooklyn Independent Television! 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, publishing people, designers, artists, writers, and illustrators. Watch a television clip about this event.

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Sunday, June 12, 1-4 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION:
THE ART OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS:
Inspiration to Illustration
free admission – children welcome

Please join us for the closing of this wonderful exhibit. We’ll have cookies and other kid-friendly goodies. Also available: autographed books and prints for sale!

About this exhibit: Everyone has a favorite picture book from their childhood. But have you ever wondered at how the art for these gorgeous books are created? The Art of Children’s Books: Inspiration to Illustration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the art, design, and production of illustrated books. It presents a wide variety of art techniques and styles—from the witty digital art of Sara Varon to the soft classicism of Donna Diamond, and beyond.

Butterfly Inkblot art: © Margaret Peot.

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Creativity Friday: The studio et moi on tv

The segment on Kris Waldherr Art and Words, my little studio-gallery in the heart of Brooklyn, aired this week on Brooklyn Independent Television. I’m relieved that it came out so well. And it was fun to participate in too thanks to Clive Salmon and his talented crew.

The segment is six minutes long and features the Creative Women’s Networking Salon. Which reminds me: I need to schedule the next one for June soon!

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Creativity Friday: The Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW)

One my favorite things about living here in Brooklyn is the community—I’m surrounding by so many intensely creative and lovely people who inspire me on a daily basis. Two of my neighbors are the well-known comic artists Tom Hart and Leela Corman. I was sad to learn that they’re leaving our tree-strewn neighborhood of Ditmas Park for the southern charms of Gainesville, Florida. However, they have good cause: Tom and Leela are opening an art school, The Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW).

SAW will be a informal, intensive school dedicated to cartooning and sequential art. Tom Hart has ten years teaching experience at New York City’s School of Visual Arts and has been nominated for the Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz Awards. Leela Corman has illustrated for dozens of clients and illustrated a dozen books. Her graphic novel Unterzakhn will be coming out from Pantheon in Spring 2012.

To help SAW surmount the initial big hurdle of securing a space for their school and other legalities, they’ve announced a fundraiser with some amazing thank you gifts starting at five dollars—a great way to get that warm and fuzzy feeling of supporting arts education while scoring something cool. All donations are tax-deductible.

For more about the school in depth, visit SAW’s official website at SequentialArtistsWorkshop.org. Prefer social media? SAW is also on Facebook and Twitter.

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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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