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Summer 2024 Newsletter

August 1, 2024 by indiometalarts Leave a comment

Check out the latest goings on at Indio Metal Arts in this newsletter. Sign up for my email if you’d like to have them delivered straight to you first!

An exerpt from the Newsletter below…

“Hi friends!

Thanks for checking out my second newsletter of 2024. I’m grateful to be able to connect with you! I appreciate the support whether I’ve known you for years or we just met. Below I share how to connect with me and see the work in person. I also reveal my remaining shows of the year, information on a live demonstration and two new galleries that represent me.

I hope you’re having a great summer where you are. Perhaps the longer days are allowing you to get outside? My wish is that you’re spending the time doing what you love to do. I hope the warm days are allowing for more movement in all areas of your lives.

Things are humming along in my studio. I’m a maker, that’s how I process my life and find meaning. I explore lots of concepts, feelings and design through steel. In the summer, it’s definitely easier to work late if I look out the window and it’s still light outside. See below where I share many images of some of my newest sculptures.

This weekend I’ll be at the Chehalem Art Affair! Clink the link to watch a video of last year’s event. It’s a sweet little show in a forested setting with live music, wood fired pizza and wine. The weather looks like it will be perfect! This is the 20th anniversary of the event for Larry and Debi who host it on at their property. They are both potters and this is also the location of their studios!

Later in the fall and winter I’m excited to have been juried into two shows: The Salem Arts Festival September 13th-15th in Bush’s Pasture Park as well as the Wild Arts Festival December 6th-8th. I’m also looking forward to giving a live demonstration on metal shaping and an artist talk at the Dragonfire Gallery for the Earth & Ocean Festival.

The first of two new galleries for me is the wonderful artist run Gallery 408 that just opened in May in Camas, Washington! The second space I talk about is accompanied by a video. In it I describe my first delivery to Green Space Design which represents me now in Salem.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!”

Full newsletter here.

Greetings friends!

Spring is here! As the days are getting longer, are you feeling more active like I am?

April brings two large events for which I have been creating a new body of work.

If you are preparing to get in the garden, come out to Hortlandia April 5th-6th. This event, sponsored by the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, combines art and garden supply makers together with 39 specialty plant vendors. I will be bringing all new trellises, plant stands, free standing sculptures and other landscape elements.

Join me at the Gathering of the Guilds, April 19th-21st. See the incredible work from the other members of the Creative Metal Arts Guild as well as the other five guilds.

Below I share my involvement with a university and an elementary school. I juried the student open call art show at Linfield University. I was also in the curriculum of the TTSD Art Literacy Program to inspire metal sculpture for K-5 at Byron Elementary.

Check out my latest commissions in the newsletter below. I’m always grateful for the opportunity to create custom metal work for clients. Please contact me if you would like help bringing your vision to life!

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

See March 2024 Newsletter here!

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