Two Tarnished Teapots

Upcoming Exhibition

2011-11-14T16:40:00.000-05:00

After more than a year of working alongside the First Row Centre for the Arts (formerly Greentown Gallery) I am going to be exhibiting a new and exciting body of work! The show will open on Saturday, March 10th, 2012.

Located in Greentown, OH, the First Row Centre for the Arts is not only gallery for displaying and selling artwork, but a cultural hub that offers live music, a variety of art workshops and classes, a framing shop (the original business), AND a first-class coffee (and wine- on opening nights) shop. This Thursday November 17th, they are having a wine tasting that my husband and I will be attending. Definitely a place in our area worth visiting! They currently have an exhibition featuring the artwork of some of my fellow college art majors/friends who have done an awesome job exploring how artists of the same community can differently comprehend and visually express the same topic. Check it out on the First Row CFA website http://www.firstrowcfa.com/featuredartist.html

Faces of Rural America Exhibit Opening

2011-06-07T14:59:00.000-04:00

This Saturday marks the opening of an exciting exhibition to be displayed here in Stark county. Saturday, June 11th at 7pm, the Massillon Museum (121 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, OH) will reveal a fabulous collection of photographs taken by Belle Johnson (1863-1945) and Henry Clay Fleming (1845-1942) whose work has been (approx. 1500 photographs) preserved by the Museum. After two years of planning and executing this project, Faces of Rural America will finally be on display.

Whats makes this exhibition particularly interesting is the fact that four artists were commissioned create pieces of artwork to expand the art-'viewing' experience from merely visual to a multi-sensory visual/tactile experience. It just so happens that I was one of the chosen four! More importantly I find myself in fabulous company with fiber artist and Malone University professor, Clare Murray Adams (http://www.claremurrayadams.com/), mixed media artist Joseph Carl Close (who has created numerous large-scale public installations and is very well known in the Stark County area and beyond), and artist/art critic Tom Wachunas known for his blog, ArtWach (http://www.artwach.blogspot.com/).

We were each given a Belle Johnson or HCF photograph that best suited our individual styles and were asked to recreate a tactile interpretation so that those who are visually impaired could too experience the artwork (although I believe ALL will benefit from this multi-sensory experience!) So come out this weekend for a fantastic gathering celebrating the Massillon Museum's hard work to bring together this wonderful body of work and come experience a bit of history for yourself!

The piece I was given is called "Three Women with Long Hair" by Belle Johnson c. 1895. For more info on the Museum's project and the Faces of Rural America, visit http://sites.google.com/site/massmufacesofruralamerica/home

Blog-Day 1

2011-05-24T15:02:00.000-04:00

I'm enjoying a delicious cup of bright green iced matcha as I sit down to begin writing my first-ever post on my first-ever blog! The plant-life outside my window is about as green as my cup of matcha, from the insurmountable amount of rain we've been experiencing. I've learned to appreciate it as it has provided much needed balance to the unusual heat and contributed to cooling down my third floor apartment. Now about my matcha- this is a new beverage for me. Matcha is powdered Gyokuro green tea and is used in the Japanese tea ceremony. I have been enjoying it as a hot beverage for the last few weeks, but decided to add a few ice cubes given the warm weather. Delicious! It is kind of grassy in flavor, but has a rich, natural sweetness- which I've grown to appreciate. Basically what I'm saying is give it a try! If not for the awesome green color, the antioxidant content is through the roof!

Anyways, I'm here to share my reflections on art, as I am an artist, and my reflections on life as I live it. The two often merge together as one, as my days are often centered around creating and such. My goal is to share the things I often run into in creating- the good, the bad, the difficult, and the rewarding. Today I worked on my website www.blsteigert.com and added more photos of my recent work. Technical computer related tasks typically give me trouble no matter how much I seem to learn! My site is a wix site, which is pretty much the easiest way to create a cool-looking website, but somehow I seem to botch things up. I don't know how computer programmers seem to do it! But, as in life, everything is a learning process. Up next- explorations in oil on canvas this week with my free time!

I am so excited to start painting! Its been a long while since I've stood in front of my easel. March and April were consumed with a large scale commission (2 5'x'7 mixed media paintings, and one 6'x10' m.m. painting) and along with starting a part-time job in addition to art and teaching my time has been very limited. Now that I have more time my goal is to get going. I have a large (about 3.5'x4.25') canvas that has been waiting for me. I stretched it last summer and now I'm ready to resurrect BIG BERTHA as I call it, or her? Hmm. Took me a good while to prep this canvas so I'm not sure what to paint. Stay tuned!