bacini, bacini, bacini from Jana

HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I miss you guys!!!!

It was such a kick in the pants to hear some of your voices Friday night!
(And I heard you kept Miss Julia out past her bedtime! Naughty!)

Your work has progressed at a clipping pace. I am so pleased for each of you. I appologize for not "commenting" on every entry, every time.... but be assured, I'm keeping up with you! I have to tell you that I giggle and sigh every time I go through your words and pictures. You have such an amazing combination of humor, seriousness, focus, and freedom. It's an incredible mix.
I wish I could be at the Officina for the show. Please, someone, take photographs and post them somewhere!

I wanted to tell you a little of what I've been up to.
The Drawing Game show in Kansas City went great. You can view the work at thedrawinggame.com (Regan and Melissa are both participants...) The show is called From Flat to Phat and it's about printmakers who break the mould. Phil Slien and the curators of the show have been talking about bringing it to STL to the Des Lee Gallery.... So hopefully next year you'll get to see it.

The Arcadia workshop was amazing. I posted pictures on my flickr site so you can check them out.
I collaborated with a Landscape Architect named Jane Wolff and we organized a workshop (for 10 students) and a public symposium based on different aspects of Arcadia: found, made, and lost. These activities all accompanied an exhibition of artist's books called Arcadia Id Est which was curated by a Brittish woman named Sarah Bodman. You can learn about the exhibition at http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/arcadia.htm

Tonight the artist Leslie Dill is giving a lecture at COCA so I'm going to that.... and in two weeks I go to Arizona to be a visiting artist. I've asked if we can go up to the Roden Crater and see James Turrell's observatory that he's been building (http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/clip1.html)....

And for boring news, I did my taxes today..... and now my tummy is rumbling..... so I better sign off.

good luck getting ready for the show..... I just KNOW it's gonna be awesome!!!!!

BIG HUG!
Jana