Iterations #1: Aquamarine, 30 x 66 inches, © 2006 Deidre Adams

Wow, this last week has been quite a whirlwind. My entire last weekend was spent preparing all of my newest work for hanging at the Aurora Municipal Center for their Art in Public Places program. I was one of four artists selected for their 2007-2008 rotating exhibition schedule. This is a solo show of my work titled “Spaces and Places.” If you are nearby and can go to see it, details are available on my Exhibitions page.

As any artist knows, making the art is only a small part of the scope of what we do. We also have to spend a lot of time on marketing/promotional efforts (including photography – either doing it yourself or hiring some else to do it), tracking inventory and other recordkeeping details, and preparing the work for exhibition. In the case of art quilts, that very often involves sewing on sleeves and labels, which is what I had to do for nine new works that I finished in time to put into this show. My fingers were sore for days!

My pain (oh, poor me!) was somewhat mitigated by the exciting news that my piece “Counterpoint” has been accepted into Quilt Visions 2008. I should say provisionally accepted, since they are very clear in stating that “final acceptance will be determined at the time of photography” and if it “varies significantly from the image submitted for jury” it will be summarily booted out of the show. I’m fairly confident that won’t happen in my case, but as you know, only two things in life are certain.

After delivering the work for the Aurora show, I came back to find an e-mail from the gallery manager at Translations. Turns out she had more good news for me – The above piece, “Iterations #1: Aquamarine,” has sold to a corporate client. I was very excited about that, and immediately some thoughts for new works in this series started flooding my brain. Now, just where did I leave that sketchbook …