August was great, I had three full day camps in a row!
Here’s one of my favorite batiks from the August Arts camp.
I’ve posted more pictures at the PhotoBucket site.
Just after things died down in August, I was asked to design a giant puppet for the Backbone Campaign, to become part of their Procession for the Future - http://backbonecampaign.org/page.cfm?id=129
They wanted a Sustainability Puppet, a giant sun that opens to reveal a vision of a sustainable future. It had to be able to be disassembled and packed up and reassembled without too much difficulty. Realizing that this project was somewhat beyond the scope of my talents, I enlisted the aid of two fellow artists in town. The Widow Corder, who took my simple design concepts and spun them then into an engineering and artistic marvel. Virginia Ashby created the collective vision of a sustainable future. Linda Atkins contributed her sewing and pinning skills to the project, and Peter Gritt offered some sage advice on scope and materials. We finished it just in time for it’s debut at the Sustainable Ballard Festival in Seattle on Saturday, September 29th.
$On October 12th, my partner and I attended the Pig Auction at the Westin Hotel in Seattle. 39 pigs were sold at live auction and another 25 were sold at a “Buy It Now” price, raising257,000 for Pike Place social service agencies.
The range at the live auction was $800 to $8,000. Marina the PigLit started off at $2,000 and went to $5,500 at the live auction, and Sophie the Merpig sold afterwards at a “Buy It Now” price of $3,000.
A week later, I did a 3D shadow demo with a 4-ft tall skeleton marionette at the Port Townsend City Library. I managed to get a bit of it recorded which can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PLDUlJVwGk
On the evening of October 24th, Rob d’Arc and I returned to the Federal Way Regional Library to present our shadow puppet version of “The Reluctant Dragon” and a workshop. 90 people braved terrible weather to attend and everyone seemed to stay for the workshop!
