anne is an artist

The gallery exhibition was really fun tonight! A lot of people came and there was also free food and wine! Sweet! Apparently MIAD is a wet campus now! Either way, Tom Noffsinger said that he really enjoyed my pieces, and that is a good thing!



Today I also picked up a new phone. I gave them a lot of sass, which I'm sorry, but really! I qualified for the rebate, but they couldn't give it to me because my mom wasn't there, but she lives 650 miles away, however her signature is required, and it's real inconvenient for them, etc. etc. Eventually I got my phone after much stink raised. I asked them to add my old phone book to my new phone, but "That Location" couldn't do it so I just left. Enough of them! So now I have an empty phone. It does have Bluetooth, but I cannot figure out how to download more than one number from my mac to my phone!! I thought mac's were able to handle everything, but perhaps I was wrong. Does anyone have any experience with Bluetooth?

I am about 2.5 weeks from my Senior Exhibition. Things are running smoothly thus far, and I have a couple of pieces that I need to get scanned in, in order to place up here to show y'all! Just a reminder, for those of you in the Milwaukee area:

"Dreamy"
A Senior Exhibition Show by Anne Harvey

Friday, April 20th, 5-9pm
Gallery Night

I also have several postcards that I've been mailing out. If you would like a postcard, feel free to drop me a line and I'll send you out one! (Don't worry, I don't sell addresses to companies, and such)

Also, take a look at anneharveyillustration.com, because I just redid the whole design last night, and am rather proud of the outcome! Next is this blog design. Also, if you come across any mistakes, please let me know so I can fix them up! Thanks kindly!

p.s. MY MOM IS COMING TO THESIS! Considering that back in December I thought she was probably going to be dead, (which would have been quite a bummer )this is particularly good news!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to throw a little update out here. I've been doing a little bit of art work here and there and I have a Gallery Opening this Friday during Milwaukee's Gallery night!

It is at the Art Bar - Riverwest and starts at 9pm. It's called FEAR 4 and it's halloween themed! I hear there is going to be pumpkin carving and everything, so come and check it out! Then buy some of my art work!!

I need this.

No really, I do.

I realized the other day that March is next week! Of course, in Kansas City that always meant the return of spring. However, in Milwaukee, that means at least 6 more weeks of winter.

I do have some good news! I sold more than half of my pieces at the Mini Art Show. And a print! That has actually given me quite a confidence boost to create more work and perhaps start promoting myself a bit more. I have a new "series" forming in my mind. I am taking a Saturday open studio class at MIAD in the printmaking lab. Hopefully new work comes from that. It should be exciting. I need to do a bit of research, however and I need to re-familiarize myself with the lab. Last Saturday was hilarious because it was Kari and I stumbling through printing some of her plates. I think we got it.....eventually.

I have been working on a sweater that is very exciting for me. In that it may actually fit! I have been struggling a whole bunch with gauge. I'm not quite sure I get it. For this sweater I am working in the round and the pattern is not the easiest pattern to follow, so I am making up quite a bit as I go. So far so good! I will take some pictures as soon as I get a little farther. Right now I have maybe 3 inches, and it is hard to tell exactly what it looks like.

This weekend was a very satisfying weekend. Mark and I stopped at the White Whale Collective and were very impressed! It is a group of MIAD grads that are investing in a gallery space and putting on shows. Mark and I both bought artwork! Next time they show if anyone lives in the MKE area, check it out!

I have finally finished moving into the apartment. Now I just need to organize and rearrange. I am really struggling with whether or not I paint. It was just painted a boring white, so it's got fresh paint. But who can stand white?

April 1st is tomorrow----and I don't have to pay rent!

Other than that I am working on my own art work, everyone else around me seems to be waking up from their post-graduation slumber and making artwork. And the Thesis Show is coming up! Art is in the air. Maybe love too, but it isn't very spring-like outside, so we'll stick with art.

So we finally have a nice layer of snow on the ground. Oh. Yay. Time for the count down to March.

Art vs. Craft was fun! I probably saw a million people I knew, as I was the one manning the clicker/counter at the door. I was able to wander around a bit afterwards and look at all of the wonderful booths full of good things. It seemed like it was smaller this year! I also ran into several vendors that I knew, yet weren't there last year. Pretty nice! I need to attend an arts and crafts fair every weekend, because it gets me all inspired to do things. I went home and immediately picked up some Shrinky Dinks and some dusty old earring kits I had bought a while ago, and made Day of the Dead Earrings. Pictures to arrive shortly!

I found a $99 plane ticket to Kansas City for Christmas. Unbelievable. I think instead of Christmas presents I'm just going to be giving out a bunch of random baked goods. Watch for it.

PS Go to IN SEQUENCE on Friday. It will be glorious.