Mayhem at the Herndon Gallery

Seriously, I didn't know the jafagirls were

 going to be this involved in the Herndon Gallery Exhibit but honored and excited to be invited. I came back from a trip to Taiwan and Nancy said, "HIAY! here is the list of things we have to do by next week." PHEWflippingHECK!
 So in between jet lag, feeling crumpled, unpacking, crossed eyes, and jet lag, oh! did I mention that already, erm, I am stitching and bitching up a STORM.

Talitha has a painted panel from The Mills Park Fence Art Gallery Project included and Nancy and I are installing old and new street art pieces (yarn and textile) into "TAG!Territorial Negotiations". 

The Herndon Gallery opens "TAG! Territorial Negotiations"

I believe the DJ for the opening reception is going to be Shane Creepingbear YEA!

Mayhem at the Museum

Springfield Museum of Art

and the thought of doing an installation was intimidating, especially when I saw the pile of STUFF. We had no schematic drawings of how we were going to do it yikes, BUT as with a lot of things Nancy and I have done, we winged it.  After nearly 8 hours we 

painted three chalk trees for visitors to decorate, and Deb Housh (Museum Educator) attached 

the magnetic board for Mr.Plato. Meanwhile 

Nancy and I got Felt Man up. Visitors are welcome to attach pieces of felt to him ;)

More work to do today.

Meanwhile a big thanks to everyone at the Springfield Museum of Art

Kathy Moulton for the use of her bench

Talitha Greene for loaning us the fan for display.

cheers all

Remembering the Children

We have made white peace poppies before but it was this absolutely stunning installation in the UK that really pushed me to think why not create something for the children?

Royals 'plant' ceramic poppies 

We obviously can't do anything like the beautiful commemoration in the England, but we can do what jafagirls are known to do best, get crafty. 

I just wish there was an international day of mourning and remembrance for all the children around the world who have/or are dying due to war, gun violence, etc. 

We are inviting people to create white poppies and add them to ours in town or create a memorial installation in your town.

LINKS

Get involved - End Violence Against Children - UNICEF
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America

The Charity for Children affected by War | War Child

Public Art Project by the Jafagirls

Les G installed all the art panels, well except two (yet to be finished).

Nancy and I want to thank all the artists for contributing panels for this project. It is such a joy to see what everyone came up with.

Artists

Corrine Bayraktaroglu aka jafabrit

Nancy Mellon

Kathy Verner Moulton

Leah Grommon

Libby Rudolf

Cynthia McDonald

Talitha Greene

Liz Zaff

Sue Brezine

Alice Basora

Travis Hotaling

Theresa Mayer

Sandi Sharpe

Jennifer Float

Copyright Info

All images are copyright to the individual artists 2014

If you wish to use any images please contact us

thanks

Jafagirls For the Birds

For 5 hours Nancy and I prepared the Aviary

 while Talitha prepared her frames at the arts council gallery. It was a lot of fun, and exhausting BUT worth it.

I hope you can drop by and check out all the goodies for auction-auctioneer Terry Fox, 

some great nibbles by Meadowlark, drinks my Dino's and Emporium, and live music.

Public Art: Peeps in the Park

It actually started out being called the Pub Alley Project back in 2010. Nancy and I thought it would be cool to have a group of artists paint 2'x4' plywood panels and hang them on the side of the Gulch. 

Unfortunately by March 2011, there was a Glitch at the Gulch and even after we had gotten permission a year earlier we could no longer hang the art panels there.

Les Gilford to the rescue ♥ and he suggested across the street. Thanks to Les , and the owner of the building, we found a home for the 14 art panels on the side of Village Artisans Gallery.

  There they have hung for 3 years through wind, rain, cold and blistering heat.

ALAS after 3 years they are starting to look rather grotty and it is time to remove and replace them. So don't panic if you see some empty spaces during the month of May. The artists will be redoing their panels and  rehung at the beginning of June.

For my Birthday and a bit Craft bombing

Delish Breakfast with homemade scones by jafapal Nancy ♥

Sugar Skull cookie fail from jafa T and her beautiful daughter Evie

Despite their claim they were a cookie fail, I thought they were WONDERFUL and they tasted YUMMY!

it's was a gorgeous sunshiney day and I had to put up a little Textile Art to match the blue birds from last year. 

Alex walked by and SNAP!