textile nirvana

art at the lummis house

turke3 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:12:17 +0000

if you’ve never been to the lummis house -here’s your chance! the 16th annual showcase of artists homes & studios re-discovery tour is next sun , nov 23rd. the tour starts out at the lummis house in highland park & you can then continue on a self guided tour of creative spaces in highland park, eagle rock and mount washington. the lummis house, built between 1898 and 1910 , was built by charles fletcher , which he said he built “to last a thousand years.” Its architecture, lummis had written, “is part of my life and my brains and my love and my hands”.

i’ll be in the lummis hhope to see you!

for info & tix for the re-discovery tour visit:

www.arroyoartscollective.org

http://www.socalhistory.org/Socalhistory.org%20_mainfolder/Lummishome%20and%20garden/LummisHome.htm

day of the dead at hollywood forever

turke3 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:26:32 +0000

yesterday was a long, wonderful day-”weather” and all! for us spoiled southern californians, any kind of moisture constitutes rain. after one of the warmest october’s for us on record-novemeber 1st, dia de los muertos, came in with a vengeance-sporadic thunderstorm’s throughout the day. this made for an interesting and challenging event at hollywood forever cemetery’s annual dia de los muertos celebration. i do an altar every year, and for the majority of the hundred plus families that participate in creating an altar -it is an all day event. the public is invited from 4pm-midnight, however the “the behind the scenes” begin much earlier. many people start “creating” their altar the night before. this year, that fri night being halloween , i opted to just drop off my stuff and get the heck out of hollywood before the other 300,000 people came for tricks (no pun intended). my dia de los muertos saturday morning began at 7:30-clear skies in hollywood. by 10am the wind was wicked-prompting myself and fellow altar aficionados to tie down EVERYTHING. at 2pm we had a downpour-even by midwest standards it was WET. (fortunately it lasted only about 20 minutes.) anyway-by showtime the rain gods/goddesses were appeased- thankfully. it was a perfect evening surrounded by family, friends, good food, and the spirits of the hollywood forever crowd (including rudolph valentino, douglas fairbanks, peter lorre, jayne mansfield, dee dee and johnny ramone) what more could one ask for?

el libro del muerto

turke3 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:30:41 +0000

ahh october is finally here! for those of you who know me- you know that dia de los muertos is one of my favorite times of year. i’ll be sharing my artwork throughout the month. hope you will be inspired to remember and celebrate the life of a past loved one.

el libro del muerto or ”the book of the dead” is not really so much an altered book as an assemblage piece. i used the pages from a lovely antique victorian photo album, and for the cover , an old book. the paper dolls on the cover are from the 1900’s, and the antique lace is hand dyed and beaded. for the “pages” i embellished antique photo’s with collage, pen & ink, ephemera and finding’s. soooo much fun!

pequeños trabajo

turke3 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:13:38 +0000

small works-some of my favorites! i’ll be having a “make & take” mini altar workshop next sunday, sept 28th which will coincide with the abbot kinney street festival. if you are in the neighborhood come by-details can be found on my website www.turkeyred.com or www.tenwomen.org

so many altars-so little time

turke3 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:29:44 +0000

my newest altar creation.

Yo me moriré un día, pero soy a causa de usted que mi amor vivirá para siempre.

I will die one day,
but it’s because of you that my love will live forever.

dog days of summer

turke3 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:17:28 +0000

actaully-summer in southern ca is not quite over. we’re in somewhat of a heat wave. betty is the only one of the three girls who really enjoys the water. angie will sedately lay down on the middle step of the pool, zoey will have nothing to do with water at all (except her bath, of which she has no choice.) betty’s favorite thing to do is play ball in the pool, second best is to attack the sprinkler. we’ve had betty for a little more than a year now-we rescued her last may & she’s come a long way. she came from a very good home and loving young mom-who was relocating to the east coast . betty was brought up in a studio apt- and was Not impressed with her new yard at all! took her a long time to be comfortable going outside. while the girls are inside most of the time, they do enjoy their outside time- betty especially!

airesella in anticipation

turke3 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:53:34 +0000

august has flown by-this was the month i was going to take off -oh well-didn’t happen!

with september 1st being tomorrow, the general consensus is that summer is over.

i am in agreement-for the few weeks i’ve been consumed with thoughts of dia de los muertos-my favorite holiday. here is airesella- to welcome things to come.

La Sirene

turke3 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:36:04 +0000

The talented Patricia Anders, one of my favorite artist’s at the Ten Women Gallery, is curating the show ”Raining Art dolls”. More than 29 artists are participating-it’s a must see! La Sirene is one of my contributions. Please join us on September 5th from 6-9pm for the artist reception at the Ten Women Gallery in Venice. http://www.tenwomen.org/venicegallery.html

robert henry cantgler

turke3 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:08:02 +0000

i have very little willpower in some instance’s -kid’s & books being one. so-when i was at the flea market this morning it was impossible to resist this treasure-a baby book. robert henry was born on june 10th 1918 in waukau, wisconsin to gwendolyn & henry cantgler. gorgeously illustrated by clara powers wilson & published by the reilly & britton co chicago.

these finds are bittersweet for me-it breaks my heart that a family heirloom fall’s into a complete strangers hands at a flea market for a couple of $. this was an only child-the light of his parents lives-they recorded his childhood with such love and pride.

perhaps at the moment, i’m a little bit over the top emotionally these days on this subject.

i am a mother-my kids are for the most part ”grown”. my youngest , my son, will be 21 in dec. a few weeks ago, late at night -he woke me up with “i brought john home-he has nowhere to go”. john, with his life in 2 trashbags , was moved into one of the spare bedrooms. i’ve know john since he was 9yrs old-he was my “second son” through elementry & middle school-he was always here. he was a child that could have easily fallen through the cracks. his mother had such serious substance abuse issues that she was unable to care for her children. fortunately her father stepped up and took all 3 kids-john being the oldest. baseball & his grandfather were john’s savoir, he loved both. my son fell out of touch with john during high school-we heard from john during his senior year-his beloved grandfather was dying of cancer. after his grandfather died, john’s life quickly spireled downward. two years later- this is a young man on the edge-he can go either way. he’s a great kid-i’ll do everything i can to make sure he makes it-i hope it’s enough.

Strange Fruit in downtown Los Angeles

turke3 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:05 +0000

This morning i read in the LA Time’s that an Australian preforming art’s troupe “Strange Fruit” would be in downtown Los Angeles this evening. My husband (bless his adventurous spur of the minute soul) a friend and i took the subway downtown to Bank of America Plaza. the excursion was well worth it-in a word-MAGICAL. They are preforming tomorrow as well as Friday & Saturday- I highly recommend it! for more information visit