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Posted on 9/30/2024 2:44:18 PM
By Susan Gainen
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Max-the-Cat invites you to the Saint Paul Art Crawl
INTERESTING TIMES: We live in them.
"Interesting" is an elastic term in Minnesota. It can mean "genuinely engaging" or "that's an 'interesting shirt;' go home and burn it."
My life has been engaging to me during the past few months. Much art-making. Three times a week as a Demo Lady at Costco (still one of the most fun jobs you can have standing up in public). Reading amazing books. Altogether too much fretting about the upcoming election.
The Fall 2024 Saint Paul Art Crawl
Join me Friday October 4 from 5-8 at Chelsea Heights Elementary School (near Como Park) at 1557 Huron Street, St. Paul 55108. I was originally schedule at the Como Park Streetcar Station (where I vote and serve as an Election Judge), but the station needed a new roof and the artists got the boot. Chelsea Heights was sponsoring a student art fair, and the PTO graciously invited the Como Artists to join them.
How I've spent some of my time
Instead of focusing on fretting, I've focused on tiny shapes and tiny spaces, always supervised by Max-the-Cat, who regularly sends Healing and Comforting Purrs to those in need. He has also been busy organizing Minnesota's Million Meow March, and serving on the Executive Board of the Minnesota Chapter of Catnappers for Kamala. One result of the 20,000-cat Zoom call of a few weeks ago, is Catnappers' bylaw change. Because so many cats advocated on behalf of their non-feline house partners ("I live with a dog...I live with a ferret..."), Catnappers now admits all non-human creatures.
From left: Floating Planets (in progress); Truly Wild Flowers (in progress); Gifts from Max. Bottom: Mr. Fish, Chief Climate Warrior.
Posted on 1/29/2024 10:42:05 AM
By Susan Gainen
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Mr. Fish, Fierce Climatae Warrior
Who loves Mr. Fish? What can I say? I love Mr. Fish, and all that he stands for.
Artistically -- he stands for my love of and commitment to tiny shapes, tiny spaces and lots of color.
Thematically and politically -- he is a #FierceClimateWarrior ready to lead the charge of my creatures (his friends) to move the world back to clean water. Yes, that means they will all be together in a book. Soon. Very Soon.
