Upping the Stakes on the Spodee N' Sculpture Giveaway!

In order to get a little more action going on the Spodee N' Sculpture Giveaway, I'm throwing in a Baby Bunny in a Crow Mask sculpture to one of the prize packages and extending the deadline until midnight tonight! We'll announce a winner on Monday! All you have to do is visit spodeewine.com/recipes and leave a comment on the original Giveaway blog post about which drink/recipe you think will be your favorite. Easy, right? (There's even a cream puff recipe for the non drinkers...just sayin')

It started at a young age... by Darla Jackson

This will make a great gift for mom (if she's the weird sculpture lovin', wine and moonshine sippin' type gal who wants to try her hand at making things...) or maybe you can just keep it all for yourself... :) Either way, enter today, before midnight and remember that you get extra votes for sharing the link on Twitter and FB! Yay!

Taxidermy in Sculpture

 Image found on Pinterest 
Update: The artists name is Pim Palsgraaf!

I have a strange love of taxidermy used in sculpture...I've always felt drawn to it for some reason (though I should say that I am NOT ok with killing animals to make art...many taxidermists now use animals that died of natural causes..."Sustainable taxidermy", if you will...) If you have any interest in the process or the history of taxidermy at all, I suggest you check out:

Still life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom

I went to a talk in Brooklyn about the book when it first came out and Emily Mayer, sculptor and taxidermist for Damian Hirst, was there. She had alot of amazing things to say about process, her own work and working for Hirst. There's a good bit about her in the book, as well as the family of taxidermists who worked on the pieces for the American Museum of Natural History, and various others, like Carl Akeley and Walter Potter (neither of which should be left out of a book on taxidermy...)

 Final Voyage - Precious Cargo by Emily Mayer

 Persistence by Beth Beverly of Diamond Tooth Taxidermy

 Peter Gronquist

 Melissa Dixson

 

And of course, Walter Potter...

Picks of the Harvest 2012 at Thinkspace

 

This Saturday is the opening for Picks of the Harvest 2012, a group show that I'm in at Thinkspace in Culver City, CA. I wanted to share photos of the piece I made for it, and later this week Justin will post photos of the mold making and casting process (he made the mold for me as a birthday present! Yes!)

With Love, North Philadelphia XOXO (Zombie Cat)

Polyurethane Resin, Ribbon

10"h x 15"w x 5.5"d

2012

 

Sculpture Saturday and O'Rae Sunday

Just saw the the Fairmount Park Art Association has been doing Sculpture Saturdays and wanted to share the info on the last one of the season, which is tomorrow. Info from their website:

Sculpture Saturdays Presented by PNC Arts Alive is back for Fall 2011! Join the Fairmount Park Art Association for five Saturdays this September and October for FREE family-friendly SCULPTURE WORKSHOPS, iPOD TOURS, and LIVE MUSIC along Philadelphia’s Kelly Drive. Enjoy hands-on activities for all ages, including artist-led sculpture workshops for kids, self-guided iPod tours, and live performances from The Adam Monaco Band, Trinidelphia, KyoDaiko and more. There’s something for everybody to enjoy while discovering public art in in Philadelphia.

DATES:

>> Five Saturdays: September 10th, 17th & 24th, and October 15th & 22nd, 2011

>> Dates may be canceled if it rains – check here for updates!

TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Live music performances daily at 11:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Kelly Drive, Philadelphia, PA

>> Sculpture workshops and iPod tours will take place at Cosmic Café at Lloyd Hall (On Kelly Drive between Boathouse Row and The Philadelphia Museum of Art)

>> Live music performances will take place at The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial Sculpture Garden (Along Kelly Drive, just north of Boathouse Row)

 

And on Sunday our little lady, O'Rae, turns 2, so we'll be partying hard with the fam to celebrate. Love you O!