Today, I’m blogging from a restaurant newly located inside the Hilton. It’s a Texas chain called Pappasito’s Cantina. Food plus free internet is my new MO. Yesterday started with an…
Okay, I understand that there are some serious gaps in the narrative here. As in, where the hell have you been for the last couple weeks, Maria? I get that.…
I’ve written a lot about the community quilts I have made. But I have never actually written about how you, too, can make a community quilt using the NO-SEW method I…
It is October, and that means I am half way through my two month long artist-in-residence program here in Charlotte, North Carolina at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation.…
I foolishly forgot to bring a bag for hauling my computer back and forth between the condo where I live and the McColl Center where my studio is. This is…
Last week was a good one. I really felt like I was approaching a level of balance between making, exploring, and connecting. On Monday afternoons, all the artists are invited…
Since I’ve been in Charlotte, I’ve been obsessing on signage. It’s been a very long time since I have lived in such an urban environment–signs are everywhere. From the beginning…
