It's been awhile!

It has been quite some time since I have sat in this chair and typed out the happenings of our life.  I have so much to tell, so many things that I want to remember from the past eight months that I want to share in this space.  I am hoping to get to all of that but for now I thought I would begin with the present, sharing some work and some fun from this past weekend.

I have spent the past couple of months working with my friend Eileen, who also happens to be the director of my favorite art festival, the Magic City Art Connection.  Together with another good friend, Alice, we put together a small art exhibit for the festival in honor of a new sponsor BBVA Compass that came on board this year with MCAC.  BBVA Compass is the official bank and sponsor of the National Basketball Association (the NBA) and together they launched an effort this year to sponsor art events and fine art festivals. I don't know about you but when I think art I don't neccessarily think basketball.  Nevertheless, we put together a project called “Magic Ball".   The idea was to create a visual link between the basic idea and form of the basketball and the inventive mind of the artist.  I thought what came together was great.  

The exhibit was juried and a winner chosen.  This is the winning piece and included a real basketball that actually rotated. It was painted black and inserted with 2400 glass beads.  It was then mounted above a pair of hands molded from the artist's husband and set on a brake disc.   Wow!

Here are several other great pieces from the exhibit....

I had the cutest assistant with me while we set everything up before the weekend began...

Lily was completely enthralled with the water fountain that was right across from us.  She also made a new friend, Patrick Ewing Jr., son of none other than NBA superstar Patrick Ewing.  PE Jr. played in the NBA like his dad and also inherited he height.  He was one of the jurors for the exhibition (meaning he helped choose the winner) and he was super nice and so sweet to Lily.

I did not have to work the entire weekend and was able to take some time to join Matt, Hannah and Lily for some art creatin' time over at The Imagination Festival, aka the kids area.  I think that Lily could sit and paint for hours.  She loves to run the brush through the colors and swirl colors together to see what she can create.

Hannah loves to paint too but was more interested in spending time with the building materials creating a house out of cardboard tubing, netting and some pink stuff. She is her father's child when it comes to her love of building and so together Matt and Hannah layered the materials to make this...

So much fun and so much creativity all made for a great art festival weekend that always just seems to fly by.

Ok folks I am off to begin my day.  I have had so many posts "typed out" in my head over the past months that it is nice to actually have one complete.  Have a happy Wednesday!