Goodbye 2007 -- Hello 2008: Plans, Alarums, and Diversions
So, as we start out on the unknown and unchartered waters of 2008, I have a bit of summing up and a bit of news.
Summing up:
-- in 2007, I posted 117 entries, despite having taken a long hiatus. I attended several conventions, sold a bunch of paintings and had a heck of a busy year, in spite of losing scanner access, and breaking both my foot and my camera, and several other diversions.
-- I accomplished at least one of my ambitions for 2007, by having a painting (The Three Mothers) accepted for publication in "M Review" an online arts 'zine.
-- I placed third in a poetry competition for my poem entitled "The Meaning of (Coffee)".
Going forward into 2008 -- news: I will be attending and displaying my artwork at the annual Arisia convention in Boston, the weekend of January 18 - 21. In February, it's back to Boston for Boskone, February 15 - 17. MaryAnn Johanson and I will be hosting our "Bronx Babes Travelling Creative Salon" on the Saturday nights of each weekend -- a gathering of creative minded and friendly people. Come by to chat, debate movies, art and literature, and take the opportunity to buy MaryAnn's book: The Totally Geeky Guide to the Princess Bride, and some of my smaller art pieces and jewelry that won't be on display in the Art Shows of either convention. I will be showing the first part of a "special project" I am working on in conjunction with Tamara Guveritz, an excellent artist who also sells her work at Arisia and Boskone.
Appearing for the first time at Arisia will be some works and prints by my niece, Meaghan R. Black.
Some plans for 2008: I plan to get a new camera very very soon and find some sort of scanning capabilities, even if it means buying an old scanner to go with my Mac7500...
The Alarum: I have been awarded a grant by the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation to go to Paris and finish researching my book. It is not enough to spend a year there, but 8 days of an organized frenzy visiting of the important sites and monuments will have to be sufficient and is certainly more than I have been able to manage in the past. So many, many thanks to LVF. The alarming thing is this: I now have to finish my book by the end of October 2008! While a lot of it is done, it is currently very "lumpy" and needs considerable smoothing out and editing, as well as the ending. I'm a happy, excited and very nervous woman.
Someday soon, I hope I will be reading a portion of my book while the crones knit my fate!
