Think on these things...

What does this picture have to do with my project? Nothing! I just like it. Of course, I do some of my best, most creative thinking while driving tractors. Also, this is an example of Carolyn's amazing talents as a photographer.

         I am eager to get started constructing my compass but am still in the collection stage.

         As a fan of black holes and all things space related, I second Timi's BRILLIANT idea stated in her first blog post.

        What do other people think?

-Massie

Denver Blog

Perhaps we should investigate black holes and/or outer space as a future theme for the collective...I would absolutely dig it. As a far away member of the group, I am excited to join the blog so I can feel connected! I have many ideas swirling aroung concerning the artwork, which I believe will be a figurative sculpture. Carolyn has contacted me and we have agreed to collaborate, which is a truly fetching idea. I think Carolyn and I may be in parallel dimensions with Massie as our portal. That's my silly way of saying we know all about each other through Massie but have never met. I loved Carolyn's website, and that has given me some indications about apprpriate imagery, although I am sure I will twist things to be a bit darker. The sculpture will be mixed media, beginning at the bottom with patent leather black mary janes and transforming into other materials as it grows upward. Carolyn's work will inspire the direction from there, and I plan to incorporate her text into the sculpture itself. Oh yes, the theme: her heart is a compass...I think she is lost.

TIME CHANGE!

OSC meeting on February 15th has been changed from noon to 2:00 pm at the Oak & Iris.

Rotating, rotating...

The first theme for our first group art show is COMPASS. After discarding my first idea (making a compass with which to navigate a black hole assuming that we had some sort of vessel that would not immediately be sucked into the vortex) I have become fixated on the idea of making a gyroscopic moral compass. I've sketched it out and have begun gathering materials for it's making. I can't wait! I can't wait to see what everyone else is working on at our next meeting in February.

-Massie

Beginnings

It seems a good time to begin something new, and so I am happy to introduce The One Stone Women's Art Collective at the Grail.  (It's kind of a mouthful, I know.) 

We had our second meeting on Saturday, January 10th, and despite the snowstorm, there were six of us in attendance.  So let me introduce them:

Massie 

Carolyn

Merissa

Meghan

Tink

Marcie

Those who were not there but who will be participating:

Timi

Heather 

I've tried to add their website where they exist but there will be lots of pictures coming soon.  

 For as long as I have been out of school I have had various conversations with friends about creating an artist's collective. We daydreamed of barns and garret studios, we spoke of classes and salons, we created shows in our heads, sometimes we even held classes in living rooms but for the most part they never became more then ideas. It's a hard thing to create within the boundaries of work and life. For a lot of us, there just never seems to be enough time or money. The shows I participated in with Katrina and at Rock, Paper, Scissors in Oakland inspired me to keep looking for an opportunity to make some of those daydreams a reality. My decision to stay here at the Grail was in large part due to their commitment to help us get the collective off the ground. Given the green light and the guideline that the members must be women (part of the mission of the Grail is to support women,) Massie and I were unsure at first on how to go about starting this adventure. We turned to the place were the ideas first began; with our friends. I am excited to be working alongside so many amazing artists to create our first show, it's a little intimidating actually. And so, I am busy researching vintage compass quilts, night skies, and tall ships.  I look forward to February and the next meeting where I get to see what everyone else has been up to. 

- Marcie

 

Artist Bio- Heather Sincavage

Heather Sincavage earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the School of Art at University of Washington in Seattle.

Throughout her career, Heather has received numerous awards, commissions, and residencies. In 2009, she was proud to accept a full fellowship awarded by Artix Creativo Espacio in Zaragoza, Spain, where a selected amount of work now resides under Artix management. She also is a multiple award recipient of the Pennsylvania Partner’s in the Arts Project Stream Grant. In 2007, she welcomed a fellowship for a one month residency at the Vermont Studio Center.

In addition to Heather’s national and international exhibition roster, her professional career includes extensive teaching in the arts. Presently, she is an Assistant Professor at Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; teaching Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Design. She also is an Adjunct Professor in the Art, Architecture, & Design Program at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; and an Instructor at the Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA. She also has held teaching positions at Marywood University, Scranton, PA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and the Lehigh Valley Arts Council, Allentown, PA.

Heather’s studio can be found at the esteemed Banana Factory Community Art Center in Bethlehem, PA. As part of the artist community, she acts as a Lehigh University Outreach Liaison, where she connects the Banana Factory arts with campus academic departments. Heather resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Visit her website at www.heathersincavage.com


"Pathway"
black & white photo on arches, vellum, graphite, acrylic
24 x 24"
2009


"Resonance"
photo on panel, sugar, acrylic, poplar
29x26"
2009


"Architect's Daughter"
photo on panel, sugar, acrylic, poplar
20x50"
2008


"Beside Her"
photo on panel, sugar, acrylic, poplar
73 x 54"
2009


"Untitled"
photo on panel, sugar, acrylic, poplar
29 x26"
2009


"Looking Back"
photo on panel, sugar, acrylic, poplar
10 x 20"
2009


"Gemini"
photo on panel, sugar, vellum, acrylic, steel wire
5 x 8'
2008

Artist Bio- Katrina Rodabaugh

Katrina Rodabaugh is a writer and artist currently living in Oakland, CA. Her artwork has been shown in such galleries as the San Francisco Center for the Book, Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, and The University of Alabama W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library. Her writing has appeared in the press gang, curves, and Stillwater journals and also in letterpress printed broadsides and chapbooks.
She received her MFA in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland, CA where she also worked as a teaching assistant in the Book Arts Studio. She was awarded a writer’s residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2005 and an individual artist grant from the Puffin Foundation in 2009. For information regarding her work and online art shops, visit her blog

Artist Bio- Timi Biermann

Timi is an art educator and multimedia artist. She has a BFA in ceramics from Maine College of Art and has studied extensively at art centers including Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, and Anderson Ranch Art Center. Timi specializes in painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, ceramics, and sculpture.
Timi has been an art educator for the past ten years, and currently teaches at Slavens K-8 School in Denver. She is a recipient of the Public Education Business Coalition Funds for Teachers grant and the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund. She is an active member of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, and is currently enrolled as a graduate student at Savannah College of Art and Design.


Kansas
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
36x48”
2009


Backbone
mixed media (acrylic, collage, and papier mache on canvas)
24x36”
2008


Japan Fan
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
20x32”
2008


Maneki Neko
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
18x24”
2008


Advice
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
20x26”
2008


Kissing Prairie Dogs
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
48x60”
2009


Tapir
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
24x36”
2009


Kittens Gone Bad
watercolor and graphite
8x11”
2009


Bedroom
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
22x28”
2008


Traveling Fish
mixed media (acrylic and collage on canvas)
24x30”
2008

Artist Bio- Marcie Farwell

Marcie Farwell sometimes goes by the name of her great aunt Zora Jane, whom she never actually met but liked the moment she found out Zora tripped over things a lot. Miss Farwell moved from California to attend New York University in order to study Architectural History but instead fell in love with photography and making things by hand. She lives in Brooklyn and while you will still catch her looking up to read dates on cornices she is usually otherwise occupied with a thrift store find, a sewing machine, fabric, knitting needles, a camera or any combination thereof. Marcie worked with the dress designer Mary Adams in New York where she learned the fine art of welding a needle and thread.

In 2006, her dress The Great War appeared as part of a group show put together by Katrina Rodabaugh at Mills College and in 2007, her piece Wede was part of a group textile show “Tints” at Rock Paper Scissors Gallery in Oakland. She collaborated with Lindsay Gilmour for a art/dance piece “The East Wind in a Petticoat,” shown at Ithaca College in 2008. Marcie Farwell co-founded the One Stone Collective in January of 2009 while living at the Grail in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. For the Collective’s first show COMPASS, Marcie created two site specific pieces “And When He Fell in Love with the Sea She Sewed for Him Sails of Indigo” and “It Lead Her Straight to the Heart of Boo’s Tree.”


“The Quilting Bee”
Photo Quilt Series - Paper based photographic portraits sewn together and embroidered in the American “Crazy Quilt” tradition.
2000 to Present


“The Quilting Bee” Detail
Photo Quilt Series - Paper based photographic portraits sewn together and embroidered in the American “Crazy Quilt” tradition.
2000 to Present


“The Great War” Art Dress
1920’s inspired dress as part of a group project for Katrina Rodabaugh Master’s Thesis for Mills College. Integrating the poetry of Gertrude Stein letterpressed onto fabric then pieced along with recycled and hand-knit materials and embroidered.
February 2007


“Red and Black I"
Photo Quilt and Art Quilt.
4x4” pieces inspired by World War I era mourning etiquette
Shown at Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery for the fourth anniversary of the Iraq Invasion.
March 2007


“Red and Black II"
Photo Quilt and Art Quilt.
4x4” pieces inspired by World War I era mourning etiquette
Shown at Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery for the fourth anniversary of the Iraq Invasion.
March 2007


“Wede” Large Scale Art Dress/Tent.
Inspired by the stories of Juliet, Ophelia and Briar Rose and childhood forts. Black on Black embroidery, quilting, appliqué, lace knitting and crochet and letterpress printed fabric pieced together in the form of a Victorian mourning dress.
As part of a show, “Tints” at Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective Gallery, Oakland CA. October 2007


“Wede” Large Scale Art Dress/Tent.
Inspired by the stories of Juliet, Ophelia and Briar Rose and childhood forts. Black on Black embroidery, quilting, appliqué, lace knitting and crochet and letterpress printed fabric pieced together in the form of a Victorian mourning dress.
As part of a show, “Tints” at Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective Gallery, Oakland CA. October 2007


“The East Wind in a Petticoat”
Art Dress and Dance Performance Collaboration.
Two new art dresses and the reuse of “Wede”(seen above) in a dance piece choreographed and performed by Lindsay Gilmour. “The East Wind” was inspired by the idea that the original meaning of the word “spinster” was The Fates. The two all white dresses act as counterpoint to “Wede.”
The piece was part of the show “No Translation Needed” at Ithaca College.
March 2008


“The East Wind in a Petticoat”
Art Dress and Dance Performance Collaboration.
Two new art dresses and the reuse of “Wede”(seen above) in a dance piece choreographed and performed by Lindsay Gilmour. “The East Wind” was inspired by the idea that the original meaning of the word “spinster” was The Fates. The two all white dresses act as counterpoint to “Wede.”
The piece was part of the show “No Translation Needed” at Ithaca College.
March 2008


“The East Wind in a Petticoat”
Art Dress and Dance Performance Collaboration.
Two new art dresses and the reuse of “Wede”(seen above) in a dance piece choreographed and performed by Lindsay Gilmour. “The East Wind” was inspired by the idea that the original meaning of the word “spinster” was The Fates. The two all white dresses act as counterpoint to “Wede.”
The piece was part of the show “No Translation Needed” at Ithaca College.
March 2008


“And When He Fell in Love with the Sea, She Sewed for Him Sails of Indigo”
A large-scale textile piece made from pieced denim salvaged from over 50 pairs of used jeans and dyed with Vat Technique indigo as well as photo-sensitive fabric sun-printed and over-dyed with indigo.
Site-specific pieces created as part of “COMPASS” the fist show of the One Stone Art Collective.
June 2009


“It Lead Her Straight to the Heart of Boo’s Tree.”
A mixed media piece of found objects assembled in the hollowed out stump of a tree. Site-specific pieces created as part of “COMPASS” the fist show of the One Stone Art Collective.
June 2009

Artist Bio- Massie Jones

Massie attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she majored in Fiber Arts and had her first show. Since finishing school, she has expanded her use of materials to include metal and wood and continues to be madly in love with all things fibrous.
Massie’s main inspirational forces come from science, mathematics and physics and she strives to educate her artistically inclined brain in these fields by reading too much science fiction.
Massie makes her home in super hip Ossining, New York where she tries to cram as many art supplies as possible into her artists hovel.

Artist Bio- Merissa Sincavage Seminara

Merissa Sincavage Seminara earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree and minor in art history at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She has received numerous private commissions throughout the Philadelphia area and has continued to investigate the arts on her own while volunteering at wildlife rehabilitation facilities, working with animals in the veterinary field, traveling throughout Europe, inventing like MacGyver, organically gardening, caring for her menagerie of pets, being married and having a child.

Most recently, she has been inspired by her son’s love for the arts, animals and anything aquatic (sharks, boats, geese, etc). Merissa has been spending lots of time out and about all over Brooklyn, NY where she currently resides. Feeding the pond creatures in Prospect Park, visiting the sharks and turtles at the aquarium, going to any museum that will tolerate busy little guys and playing with friends and family all over NYC and Pennsylvania, it is a regular adventure for this active artist mom.


"Burning Bridges"
silk, dye, foil, copper, resin
2009


"Burning Bridges"- hanging in archway it was created for
silk, dye, foil, copper, resin
2009


"Burning Bridges"
silk, dye, foil, copper, resin
2009


"Burning Bridges"- detail
silk, dye, foil, copper, resin
2009


"Burning Bridges"- detail
silk, dye, foil, copper, resin
2009

Artist Bio- Meghan Sheldon-Brungard

Meghan was trained as an industrial designer at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she continues to live with her husband, 2 cats and a dog. With a love of how things are made, she is constantly fighting the desire to bring home all the poor, lost and broken chairs of the world. She spends a lot of time knitting, reading and picking up new hobbies.

Meghan exhibited a well received chair design at the 2003 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), and still wishes for space to manufacture them. Currently spending her time creating and learning all the ins and outs of buying a house, she spends her days amid papers and emails, and nights among assorted materials from wood, yarn, metal, fabric and paint.

Sometimes working in collaboration with her husband, she is constantly inspired by him. Once they buy that house, they will have multiple studios: a messy one, a clean one, a fabric/yarn one, a computer one; and hopefully they will all have heat.


Joint Painting with Husband, David Brungard
acrylic & gauche on wood
2007


S.I.T (Secession of Inner Tubes)
Steel Tubing, 16" Bicycle Inner Tubes & Cotton Webbing
2003

S.I.T. came from an epiphany- "bicycle inner tubes"
The design is focused on the accentuation of a ready-made material in a novel way, as furniture. The elegantly simple bends in the steel tubing suspend the user comfortably on an air filled pillow of tubes constricted by the warmth of cotton webbing. These inner tubes have seceded from their former association with a bicycle to form a new entity, one in which they are the focus of the activity.

Shown at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), May 2003


Studies of Convexity and Concavity
Plaster
2002


The Blob
Plaster on Wood Base
2001


The Blob
Plaster on Wood Base
2001


Flower Lights
Colored Plastic Wrap over Wire Frames, with individually battery powered switches
2000


Shari
Embroidery on Handmade Cotton, Silk Lined Zipper Pouch
2008


Wedding Blanket
Cabled blanket Designed & Knit for my oldest friend as a wedding gift
2007


Wedding Blanket
Cabled blanket Designed & Knit for my oldest friend as a wedding gift
2007


Baby Shower Invitation
For My Brother and Sister in Law's Baby Shower
Computer Line Drawing, Printed then Hand Colored with Color Pencil
2008


Storage Table Sketches
Pen on Paper
2003


Compass Drawings in 3 parts, Composite Photo
graphite on onion skin, gel medium, found windows
2009

Compass as a literal rose compass from a map. Giving one a way of finding direction in the wild, acting as an accent to a map. Showing us the possible directions in which we can go.

Shown at Compass, at The Grail, Cornwall on Hudson, NY


Compass Drawings in 3 parts
graphite on onion skin, gel medium, found windows
2009

Compass as a literal rose compass from a map. Giving one a way of finding direction in the wild, acting as an accent to a map. Showing us the possible directions in which we can go.

Shown at Compass, at The Grail, Cornwall on Hudson, NY


Reminiscence of a Journey
acrylic yarn, jersey knit fabric, woven ploy-cotton fabric, polypropylene rope
2009

Compass as a way of returning , to where you've been, what you know and where you come from. Red lines signifying our journey through life, marking ones path in the world. For reminiscence, to find ones bearings in life, for new direction.

On site Installation for Compass, at The Grail, Cornwall on Hudson, NY


Reminiscence of a Journey
acrylic yarn, jersey knit fabric, woven ploy-cotton fabric, polypropylene rope
2009

Compass as a way of returning , to where you've been, what you know and where you come from. Red lines signifying our journey through life, marking ones path in the world. For reminiscence, to find ones bearings in life, for new direction.

On site Installation for Compass, at The Grail, Cornwall on Hudson, NY


Reminiscence of a Journey
acrylic yarn, jersey knit fabric, woven ploy-cotton fabric, polypropylene rope
2009

Compass as a way of returning , to where you've been, what you know and where you come from. Red lines signifying our journey through life, marking ones path in the world. For reminiscence, to find ones bearings in life, for new direction.

On site Installation for Compass, at The Grail, Cornwall on Hudson, NY


Reminiscence of a Journey
acrylic yarn, jersey knit fabric, woven ploy-cotton fabric, polypropylene rope
2009

Compass as a way of returning , to where you've been, what you know and where you come from. Red lines signifying our journey through life, marking ones path in the world. For reminiscence, to find ones bearings in life, for new direction.

On site Installation for Compass, at The Grail, Cornwall on Hudson, NY