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EFAC: Extinct Flightless Arts Collective
don't wait around hoping someone else will create the things you want
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Artomatic Reopens!
Artomatic will (re)open tonight at 6 p.m., barring any further bureaucratic snarls, logistical mishaps, or krakens in the plumbing!
(orig. post: Oh hey! Please note that as of Wed. 3/13/24, Artomatic is temporarily closed. (They just need a new/different temporary certificate of occupancy!) I will update here when I know more; hopefully we will be back soon!)
Monday, February 12, 2024
Artomatic!
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Artomatic 2024
Dorothy Hickson |
I will be at "Meet the Artists" on March 23rd, exploring with friends on 3/16 and 3/30, and volunteering on Friday afternoons in March. (Will add April dates.)
Details on each piece in the show:
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Open Studios, Local Community, Stuff About Me
Yesterday, Mr. Darkness and I had a lovely walk over to Mt. Rainier and Brentwood, to the open art studios at Otis Street Arts Project and Art by the Tracks, the Washington Glass School, Portico, and the Brentwood Arts Exchange.
We had some terrific conversations and gave out several stickers with this blog address. So now seemed like a good time for a little reintroduction.
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Ambiguously Available Art
A few weeks ago I visited DCAC and saw that one of my pieces, "Fear Eater," had a happy red dot on the wall -- sold! One of my friends expressed an interest in another piece, but we were told that it, too, had been sold -- as had a third! (despite their lack of happy red-dot stickers)
Alas! Confusion! When I returned to the gallery this Friday, the previously unstickered sculptures were unstickered once more. A different staffer told me that some mysterious glitch in the "Square" interface had led to a number of false positives around the exhibit. Only "Fear Eater" had actually been sold; the others had been suspended in a liminal state of nontransaction.
I still cannot guarantee that the hypothetical illusory buyers are not, indeed, real -- was it the sale or the unsale that was the glitch? Perhaps at tonight's Wallmountables closing party (6-7 p.m.), someone will reveal themselves as the secret, elusive, patron(s) of my art. But if not, you can still buy the things!
Unseen Toolkit: Night (not one of the pieces that attempted to become unavailable) |
Friday, July 7, 2023
Nutrition Information (Do Not Eat)
Further details of my 2023 Wallmountables (currently on view at DCAC)
Everything but the glue and paint has been salvaged, picked up off the ground, rescued or recycled in some way. A broken and melted glass jar dug up from the bank of the Shenandoah River. Scraps of rabbit fur found in a friend's childhood basement, from a decades-ago abandoned craft project. Copper wire unraveled from the transformers of broken gadgets.