Artists and Their Art – A Preview of the upcoming Fort Collins Studio Tour

Last Friday night was the opening reception for the Fort Collins Studio Tour Preview Exhibition at the Lincoln Center. There are over 60 artists participating in this year’s studio tour which will be happening this coming Sat/Sun June 22 and 23 from 10am-5pm both days, and many of them were in attendance at the opening.

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Art and Garden Parties

Weekend Road Trip – Art Parties

Is it really Monday? The weekend was a blur – It’s great to have such a creative family, although 2 solo show openings (one in Denver and one in Steamboat) on the same weekend is pretty over the top.

My partner, Barbara Gilhooly had a reception for her solo […]

Board Game Redux: A New Art Card

In my last post, I talked about the cool handmade card collage I received in the mail last week from artist Annie Vought. Annie is doing a project to check and see if our regular old US postal system still works, given that we all seem to communicate only via computers and phones these days. […]

A Handmade Card and New Artist Pen-Pal

I miss the good old days of getting hand-written cards and letters in the US postal mail, holding an artwork in my hands that another person had just been holding and writing or drawing upon only a few days earlier. I still have a box filled with some of my favorite cards and letters I’ve […]

Fabric has “history”. Paint does not.

High Peaks Camp, Estes Park, CO

During this past weekend, I got to attend an Art workshop at the High Peaks Camp in Estes Park. 15 other textile artists and I spent 3 days learning from Leslie Gabrielse, a fabulous fiber artist from The Netherlands.

I have admired Leslie’s work from the first […]

Are You Ready for Some Football (and ART)?

"Mixed Salad" (c) 2007 Ayn Hanna, 11.5"x11.5" Textile painting (cotton fabric, cotton batting, cotton threads)

September. Fall. One of my favorite times of the year.

The smell of hatch’s green chilis roasting at the farmers’ markets, crisp morning air, Baseball playoffs just around the corner, FOOTBALL season starting, and lots of ART going […]