Strange Attitude Blog

Laura has entered three photos into a contest at the Arbor Day Website.

Here is the snip from Arbor Day’s Site.

“Entries are being accepted online now through April 30, 2010. The winning photos will be featured on our newest Give-A-Tree cards which are delivered to thousands of people each year to further our reforestation efforts in national forests destroyed by insects, disease, and fires.

Every card plants a tree. And your photo may be one that will inspire others to help the effort.”

Please take some time and view the phots that have been submitted and if you really feel generaous vote for Laurs Photos.  Here are direct links to them.

Here is what we are going to do on Firday night to celebrate my welcoming back to the real world.  A little emroidery, a little fine dining, a little being un concussed.  Today is my final day of rest and I’m feeling loads better.  Ii was a much needed time to rest the old noggin.  To think I was considering coming back to work on Tuesday.  They say part of the concussion is thinking you are in better condition than you really are in.  That was certainly the case. 

Below is a cut and paste from the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land
February 23-April 11, 2010
Opening reception Friday, February 26, 5:30-7:30 pm

Guest curator Jody Clowes, director of the UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology’s Design Gallery, sees Stitched Ground as an exploration of landscape through the painstaking and richly textured medium of fabric and embroidery. Each of the artists in the show—Terese Agnew (Lacrosse), Chris Niver (Milwaukee), Leah Evans (Madison) and Sarah Gagnon (Madison)—use needle and thread to create work that, while unabashedly beautiful, embodies the contradictions implicit in our relationship to the land.

Friday, February 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m., exhibition reception with gallery talk led by guest curator and Design Gallery director Jody Clowes. Exhibiting artists will be present. Gallery talk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:00 p.m., Gallery talk with exhibition artist Terese Agnew
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m., Gallery talk with exhibition artist Leah Evans.
Saturday, March 27, 1-3:00 p.m., Children’s tour and workshop with the Madison Children’s Museum and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; pre-registration required.

Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider The Land is supported by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, by a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation and the Overture Foundation, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Anonymous Fund, by Suzanne and Richard R. Pieper Sr., and by Ann Neviaser. Ongoing gallery support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.

We would also like to thank the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum for their loans of Terese Agnew’s pieces to the exhibition. Finally, we thank the exhibition artists, Terese Agnew, Leah Evans, Sarah Gagnon, and Chris Niver, for their enthusiastic participation in this project..

Artwork details from Stitched Ground

Well we have brought this vacation to a near finish. All we have left to do is grab some chow at the Ibiza and grab our bags and split. This as you know is not an easy task. We still have some minor airport traffic to deal with and a horrible rental car outfit to negociate. But the worst part is the fact the President Obama was forced to up the security level to orange after some dumb ass tried to blow up a plane in Amsterdam. I’m not too worded but this certainlly add a wrinkle to our travel plans.

Jack seems to have aquired some sort of stomach bug as did Laura (already over it). Let’s hope I am not so lucky.