Fall Open Studios at the Alameda Artworks

Saturday and Sunday May 18 and 19th, 11am - 5pm

34 Alameda Artworks artists will be participating; besides me you can see the work of: Carmen Arjona-Ariza, Helen Bellaver, Matthew Bien, Amy Brown, Kim Meuli Brown, Elise Burrows, Taryn Curiel, Conner Donnelly, Kay Fontana, Nicola Franklin, Ayelet Gal-On, Linda Gass, Lucy Ghelfi, John Harper, Gloria Huet, Pat Johnson, Sylvie Levesque, Lucy Liew, Belinda Lima, Patti Linder-Dodd, Dan Lythcott-Haims, Zarine Mohideen, Stacey Nussbaum, Anne Pegolotti, Suzy Radonsky, Alex Ramirez, Noreen Rubay, Sabrina Sanchez, Gretchen Sand, Marie Serda, Nancy Walters, and Bev Zerbib-Berda.

You can get a sneak peak at a whole new body of work I’m making for a solo this September at the Triton Museum. Read about it in my sculpture studio blog.

My location is: 1043C Garland Ave, San Jose, CA 95126 ; Green Door Annex (through the lime-green door off the parking lot behind Recycle Bookstore). See the map/directory below at the bottom of the page.

We are wheelchair accessible. Parking can be found in the lot behind Recycle Bookstore, in the lot behind Crema and Visual Philosophy, and along the neighborhood streets. Sorry, due to ancient plumbing we do not have public restrooms available.

 

What IS Open Studios? What can you expect?


Open Studios is an event in which visual artists invite the public to visit their workspaces in person. Why would you want to do that?

  • to get a behind-the-scenes look at how and where art is created

  • to learn more about the artist and why they make what they make with their specific tools and materials

  • to purchase original art, prints, and gifts directly from the person who made them

  • to sign up for classes and workshops

A visit to my studio offers a glimpse into the curiosity (or perhaps obsessions) that drive me to make weird and beautiful things. You’ll see a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ of sorts, with specimens from real life (bones, seed pods, plants, metal bits) intermingled with specimens I shape from wool and felt. I’m very happy to talk about and demonstrate the techniques I use: stabbing at wool with specialized felting needles, poking it through paper to make ‘wool drawings,’ and stitching thick, flat industrial felt into dimensional objects. I love to share my process through public talks, workshops, and classes as well.

I’ll be showing and selling: