I'm happy to announce my good fortune at having been selected to receive a Creation Grant under Nova Scotia's Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. This has been a great boon to my art practice since it allows me to work in my studio uninterrupted Monday-Friday.
I am also continuing work on large scale drawings. I was lucky to receive some feedback from Katie Belcher and Susan Wood, who were each generous enough to come out for a studio visit to see my drawings. If you're a shy person like I am it can be daunting to ask others for feedback, especially in this case where I had so much admiration and respect for each of them and their drawing practices. Their feedback was kind, thoughtful and extremely helpful! They both suggested I try making my drawings larger and so I have been. I'm really excited about the results. I hope to have some images to show you soon.
Check out Katie's work here: http://www.katiebelcherart.com/Home.html
Check out Susan's work: http://www.susanwood.ca/
Bee season has begun in most of Canada so I've been sending mail outs of ten bee kits at a time to any interested artist run centres or community organizations. Links to locations that currently have kits are listed below. If any of these locations happen to be near you then you can pick up a kit there. If not, I'd be thrilled to mail you one so please email me your request to ruth@ruthmarsh.net
Links:
http://www.truck.ca/
http://www.thenewgallery.org/
http://www.annapolisriver.ca/
http://www.arcac.ca/artsplace/aboutus.php
http://alternatorcentre.com/
http://www.ecologyaction.ca/
