tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84285877976227937402024-03-05T07:32:39.171-08:00May Day PressPostings from the South Salish SeaCatherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-49992560051199924682019-07-21T16:06:00.000-07:002019-07-21T20:38:51.272-07:00A Week At Mineral School<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's my seventh day at Mineral School.</div>
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I have two favorite places I visit every day. </div>
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The Bat-house and the cemetery.</div>
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You can sort of see a small bat - </div>
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just coming out from below the gutter</div>
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and to the right of the chimney.</div>
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Friday I went to Paradise on Mt. Rainier</div>
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where the flowers were at peak bloom, at least the avalanche lilies</div>
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and Indian paint brush.</div>
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Bill came up for a visit and we hiked up Morain Trail to where </div>
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we could see the Nisqually Glacier and the melt that becomes</div>
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the mighty Nisqually River.</div>
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Yesterday we all went to the lake</div>
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for a swim and to say goodbye to our dorm mom, Jess,</div>
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and welcome our new dorm mom Putsata.</div>
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I have been writing more the last few days</div>
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less visual art</div>
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though this week I hope to get some work on the press.</div>
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Yes, I brought a portable press and it is in the school gym</div>
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Last night was long and late. </div>
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Stories, dreams, and healing shared.</div>
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Today was cool and misty.</div>
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Sleepy, I was sleepy all day. </div>
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It inspired this collage.</div>
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Of course I revisited the bat house,</div>
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walking the curve of the lake.</div>
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And tonight Jess and I went to the cemetery</div>
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where the artist Velma Hale "Artist at Rest"</div>
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Started this morning with a collage in honor of the lunar eclipse. </div>
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My first collage since high school, I think.</div>
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Mineral School has all kinds of sweet things that embrace. </div>
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Definitely a dream come true to be here.</div>
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My studio/room has exploded with stuff everywhere. </div>
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That's what collage does.</div>
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The bat house — population 800.</div>
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This place in particular is inspiring me. </div>
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I'm settling in at Mineral School.</div>
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It's a comfortable and welcoming place. </div>
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Cozy despite the ratio of one artist per classroom.</div>
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(I'm reading Flash Count Diary, if you are interested. </div>
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if you need a social break.</div>
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It's my first day at my artist residency. </div>
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I have two weeks at Mineral School.</div>
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And it's wonderful to be here.<br />
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I have my own room! And it's an old classroom. </div>
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Little coat closets, like I had in the 1st and 2nd grade. </div>
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There's two big chalk boards, and a recliner. </div>
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<br />Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-14821350034669464342019-03-05T09:30:00.000-08:002019-07-14T22:09:24.182-07:00Are you a daydreamer? <div style="text-align: center;">
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This is the question my new work asks.<br />
It is designed with 6 steel pages mounted to a beautiful piece of wood.<br />
There was welding involved<br />
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and lots of trips to the store for more spray paint.<br />
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because I couldn't think further ahead than that.)<br />
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So I set the type by hand </div>
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The theme is Pacific Northwest nature and daydreaming. </div>
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And a few book making related words. </div>
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Also, for some reason I threw in the word "spoon." </div>
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Now that I am thinking about it, I should add the word chocolate.</div>
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My 'dream' came true the first day the book was on the wall, </div>
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even before the show had officially opened. </div>
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The show is called <b>Open Sesame: </b></div>
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<b>The Magic of Artist's Books Revealed</b>.</div>
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People were making messages, poems, sentences, thoughts. </div>
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They were DAYDREAMING! in front of my book.</div>
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Everyone is invited to Daydream. </div>
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The show opens this Friday, March 8, 2019. </div>
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Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-20320085697604846472018-10-27T10:35:00.001-07:002018-10-27T10:45:08.488-07:00Inking Up! for Social Justice - Small Things Can Add Up<div style="text-align: center;">
It's been a long time since I posted. I am always waiting for a better moment, a better photo, a clearer thought. Now so many things I want to share have piled up. </div>
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First and foremost, I want to share the latest broadsides for Environmental & Social Justice programs. I cannot sit idly by while hundreds and thousands of people, including children, are imprisoned at our Southern border. I cannot abide the attacks, both verbal and physical, on people coming here to seek a better life. If we can each do something small, it will add up to something big. </div>
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These four broadsides were created in collaboration with Rick Jones (NY state). We worked together on theme and content, and then Rick made these beautiful stencils for a two-color print. I printed them on my Vanderook 4 through a process called pressure printing. </div>
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We picked the quotes through a back and forth process, and Rick had them translated in Spanish through various friends. We were thrilled to be able to print these design in two languages. The type was handset for the English, and Rick had photopolymer plates made for the Spanish.</div>
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One of my favorite things about this work with Rick was his addition of the burlap scrap to add texture and definition to the skirt below. </div>
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It's been a learning and rewarding process to collaborate across space, and with Rick in particular. He has talent and caring and a willingness to let me print by the seat of my pants! </div>
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We are asking for donations, either directly, or through us, to either <a href="https://www.raicestexas.org/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">R.A.I.C.E.S.</a> (Refugee and Immigration Center for Educational and Legal Services), or to the <a href="https://firrp.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Florence Project</a> (Florence Immigration and Refugee rights project), or the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ACLU</a> and in return </div>
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we will send you one of these broadsides - you choose! </div>
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you can donate any amount for a broadside. </div>
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This collaboration with Rick Jones are my 4th and 5th Inking Up! for Environmental & Social Justice projects. If you'd like to know when the next one happens and what it looks like, follow this blog, or my May Day Press Facebook page. I am trying to do one or two a year. It's been a rewarding experience for me to make work and give 100% to a worthy cause, no strings attached. </div>
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<br />Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-87097077569299872552017-10-29T10:28:00.000-07:002017-10-29T10:28:39.005-07:00What the Plants Say<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been working on this little book <i>Root, Leaf, & Flower</i> for a quite a while. The boco printing was done a year ago, but the letterpress just added. I haven't sewn one together yet, but all the pages are ready now.<br />
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I had some different thoughts about it when I first started the boco printing process from the plants. And it took me a while to realize those ideas were a dead end for me.<br />
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It started with the idea of a sampler – each plant isolated on its own page. But the result for me is much more than a sampler, it is a song. Each print is unique, the gesture of the plants expressive with hidden images and colors revealed.<br />
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I have worked out the stitching on sample papers, but I am not ready to reveal that one yet. And for those of you that have it, this book: <i>Root, Leaf, & Flower</i> will be akin to <i>Plant Dyes from the Kitchen</i>. (below) <i>Plant Dyes from the Kitchen</i> was also published in the fabulous book <i>Thread Loves Paper</i> by Emily Marks.<br />
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<br />Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-86549750510332355302017-09-25T13:18:00.002-07:002017-09-25T17:46:14.192-07:00On My Very Own Silk Road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From my first attempt botanical contact printing on silk.</div>
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Not sure how far down the road I'll go with bo-co printing on silk, but I am having fairly good success so far and feeling more encouraged as I go.</div>
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Today, rain. But the vat is calling me back.</div>
Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-60011165321545572552017-09-23T13:07:00.002-07:002017-09-23T13:08:44.774-07:00Mothing Around<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the studio with Rebeca, having loads of fun while printing for GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty) for their fundraiser. You'll have to be quick to get one of these awesome potholders.</div>
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Co designing with Rebeca was the most fun I've had collaborating, ever.<br />
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It won't say so on this colophon, but this is another Inking Up! for Social & Environmental Justice publications from May Day Press. Had to keep this colophon short as possible to suit our "easy peasy" approach.</div>
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Stayed tuned for the finished product. We will be having a sewing bee on Sunday! </div>
<br />Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-90777612201892608832017-07-11T22:55:00.000-07:002017-07-11T22:56:05.572-07:00And Comics! I missed one very important publication this year - and it was for Grab Back Comics. Erma Blood invited me to contribute, and against my better judgement (I don't do comics, after all), I created a contribution that developed from my embroidered piece for Re-fashioning Identity. <a href="https://grabbackcomics.com/" target="_blank">Grab Back Comics</a> just came out – and I was mentioned in a very good way, more than once – in the review!<br />
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If you want to read the review: it's here: <a href="http://www.seattlereviewofbooks.com/reviews/these-comics-grab-back/" target="_blank">These Comics Grab Back</a>.<br />
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I am excited to report that I have had a poem and a piece of short prose published this year. The poem, called Ozette, was published in <a href="https://wapoetlaureate.org/book-lists/" target="_blank">WA 129</a>, edited by Tod Marshall, our state's poet laureate.<br />
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The short prose was published online by <a href="http://www.3elementsreview.com/journal-issues/3elements-review-summer-journal-issue-15-2017.pdf" target="_blank">3Elements Literary Review</a> - their Summer issue #15. As much as I love printing, I love writing more!<br />
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Stay tuned for news of a new May Day Press publication - out very soon! With cover paper printed from avocado pits!<br />
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<br />Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-1588607520002845852017-06-12T14:07:00.000-07:002017-06-12T14:07:11.926-07:00Abundant Blessings! <div style="text-align: center;">
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Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-33249361164883252172017-05-21T23:17:00.001-07:002017-05-21T23:17:38.159-07:00Grab Back Comics – Re-Refashioning IdentityI submitted a piece to <i><a href="https://grabbackcomics.com/" target="_blank">Grab Back Comics</a></i>, a comics anthology on sexual assault, harassment, rape culture, and advocacy by Erma Blood of Seattle, WA. Erma had seen the piece I made for <i>Re-Fashioning Identity</i> and encouraged me to keep working it.<br />
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Erma will be presenting <i>Grab Back Comics</i> at a Comics & Medicine conference in Seattle mid-June. I'm excited my piece was included!Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-28455147836460354192017-04-25T11:29:00.003-07:002017-04-25T13:03:50.119-07:00My week in Los Angeles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tuesday, April 18th I taught 5th graders about color, emotion, and the senses </div>
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Thursday it was back to school, to make rubbings with crayon and ink</div>
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Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-22377430001690730672017-02-10T11:48:00.002-08:002017-02-10T11:58:19.001-08:00Re-Fashioning Identity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks to the University of Puget Sound community I am taking part in this project introduced to us by Diana Weymar who creates inspiring collaborative community stitch projects.<br />
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This is due the end of next week, so I must get stitchin' to finish. (Binder paper lines provided, the rest is up to me.)Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-57166110937278797782017-01-12T10:32:00.000-08:002017-01-12T12:21:35.327-08:00Speechless<br />
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Craft in America has posted a one minute promo video - catch it <a href="http://www.craftinamerica.org/shorts/nature-episode-preview-1-min/" target="_blank">here</a>! I don't know what to say. Bill and I feel very overwhelmed by this grace all over again. The episode airs April 21st on PBS!<br />
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Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-7903307244546261572017-01-02T13:02:00.000-08:002017-01-02T13:02:15.660-08:00To the Nightland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>To the Nightland </i>is my newest artist book and will be one of the pieces I talk about in my presentation on Saturday, January 14th, at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (3pm) in the auditorium. </div>
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I am appreciating the slowness of sewing book texts, adding bits of lace and beads, finding ways to use all the pieces I've been hoarding for decades, as well as new ways to present a story. I am deeply indebted to Melissa Frykman-Thieme for making the heart around which inspired the design of <i>To the Nightland.</i> </div>
Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-45044396958401027342016-12-18T17:00:00.003-08:002017-01-12T12:22:44.392-08:00Catherine Alice Michaelis: Imprinted & Unbound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pressure printed clothing, including my baby brother's little </div>
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My unofficial autobiography . . . <i>Sola</i>.</div>
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Lots of eco-printed paper! </div>
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My show is half over at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. It's been a thrill every day I am there to meet and interact with patrons and staff. I could not imagine a more kind or caring group of people to work with. <a href="https://www.biartmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/catherine-alice-michaelis-imprinted-and-unbound-2/" target="_blank">Bainbridge Island Museum of Art</a>Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-7600052859164606422016-10-03T10:38:00.000-07:002016-10-03T10:38:21.734-07:00Early October Eco-Printing in the Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We got in some eco printing on very large pieces of paper this weekend. </div>
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Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-51285761960697001242016-08-29T18:14:00.000-07:002017-01-12T12:23:16.331-08:00Where's the Button?<div style="text-align: center;">
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It is indeed a Magic Land when creating in collaboration.</div>
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Jim and I will choose the pieces to become broadsides.</div>
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Loving the buttons coming in for Button Box! </div>
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I'm so lucky for the responses to this unusual call for submissions.</div>
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How precious the memories are from 1990 when I was learning to print letterpress from Rayna Holtz at Laughing Dog Press! Rayna and the ideas behind this press were foundational to the way I started May Day Press. Laughing Dog Press was committed to only printing works that reflected their values of social justice and environmental themes. They infused me with the idea of holding a vision of service in what I created. I am so grateful for all of it. </div>
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Today, I am lucky to be able to collaborate with Rayna's son, Morgan Holtz. He's a gifted woodworker making elegant and functional works.</div>
Catherine Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06295685146505055868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428587797622793740.post-51370789902646561172016-05-19T21:47:00.000-07:002017-01-12T12:23:39.845-08:00May Day MagicDear Friends — best birthday ever! The PBS show, <a href="http://www.craftinamerica.org/filming-catherine-alice-michaelis/" target="_blank">Craft in America</a>, came to film Bill and I at our house and studio. It was an incredible adventure without ever leaving home. A very kind and professional crew made the 2 day filming event easy-peasy for Bill and I. Please check out <a href="http://www.craftinamerica.org/?PHPSESSID=2a38aece80326855c7a38fe35ec0ee4c" target="_blank">Craft in America's website</a> - they have been show casing artists for many years now. And I can testify that they are hard working, art-loving people who really care about the work they do and the artists they feature. And stay posted - the episode Bill and I are is in edit and won't air for a while. I'll let you know when!<br />
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Bill and I worked very hard to prepare — Bill polishing every leaf in the garden and me designing a website! Check me out at: <a href="http://www.catherine-alice.com/">http://www.catherine-alice.com/</a><br />
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