Grand Opening of Adrift Wood and Stone Assemblages

We are a week out on the grand opening of Adrift Wood and Stone Assemblages.  The red-letter evening is next Monday, September 18 at my studio, 423 A S. 6th Street in Cottonwood. 

The celebratory evening begin with a couple of blessings, followed by a taco spread furnished by neighbor, Juanita’s Taqueria.  Larry Rosenberg will do a several of his own special inspiring songs and a few old favorite sing-alongs.  Singer-songwriter Hank Erwin will entertain with his fabulous Texas-tinged vocals.  The evening will end with a delicious bundt cake from Violette’s bakery in Clarkdale.  I hope to see all of you, celebrating my foray into visual arts.

​I am so excited by recent developments!  Last week I was juried into Made in Clarkdale, a venerable Christmas season art and craft show in Clarkdale.  Look for my assemblages in Clarkdale the first weekend in December.  And I was asked to be the Biz of the Week at Arizona First Bank, at the corner of 89A and Willard in Cottonwood, October 12.

I will be featuring several new lines of assemblages, beginning with my grand opening.  I have my Mezuzahs and House Blessings.  Mormon Tea roots decorate the front of glass tubes.  Inside are scrolls with either the Hebrew prayer, V’ahaftara, the prayer in Deuteronomy beginning “You shall love the Lord your God” or an English house blessing which I have written.  Both of these cases are accompanied by a copy of the prayer in English.

I also will be offering wall hangings and stand-alone pieces with tubes for holding flowers or dried grasses.  These pieces draw attention to the wonderful wood grains found in desert woods and desert-dried barn wood.  

Finally, I will have a preview of Christmas ornaments.  These will feature Mormon tea roots and other small intricate pieces of wood as sparkly hanging ornaments.  All of these pieces are made with hand-collected desert woods, then cleaned, oiled and crafted into one-of-a-kind art.

If you cannot come next Monday, feel free to drop by as you are cruising 6th.  Whether on your way to the library, the Rec center, or perhaps the post office, you come right by my studio and gallery in the Appliance Junkies.  Once my obligations diminish a bit I will be there on a regular schedule.  In the meantime, as you drive by, look for my battered blue Honda Civic.  I am there almost seven days a week. If my car is there, so am I.

And remember, my kittens, Manzanita and Junipurr, are always ready to entertain.  They are darling (even though I tell them about the possibilities for grilled kitty-steak from time to time.)

See you next Monday, September 18, from 5:00 on!