Baby (Not) On Board was listed as one of the top 12 posts in 2012, on Why No Kids? Top 12 of 2012 Virtual Davis asks about what is up for the future: stay tuned! I am starting to research traditional proverbs about childlessness, and childless women, so please send them along as you find them to miriam.schaer@gmail.com To see the series: miriamschaer.com
Clifton Meador, Melissa Potter and I have started a blog on Tumblr about our project in the Republic of Georgia: please follow Felt Reports! http://feltreports.tumblr.com/
Along with Clifton Meador and Melissa Potter, I am off to the Republic of Georgia, for our project Crafting Women's Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt. With funding from Soros Arts and Culture Foundation, and in partnership with the Women's Fund of Georgia, we will be running workshops to make artist books from felt based on family stories. Stay tuned! I will post as often as possible-as our internet access maybe spotty at best!
Rules of Engagement, will be featured in Black Tongue Review Issue 3, coming out in the beginning of 2013! The series of twenty aprons pairs idealized women, transfer printed onto hostess aprons, with quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. A copy of the artist book that features the series is available here
Eight Interarts Grad students participated in the test pilot workshop Melissa Potter and I ran, in preparation of our upcoming project Crafting Women's Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt. This project is being supported by a Soros Arts and Culture Grant. Traveling to the Republic of Georgia, along with our colleague Clifton Meador in December, we will be running workshops with various women's groups in Tblisi, as well as the Kakheti and Tusheti regions. We are partnering with The Women's Fund of Georgia [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/53722155 w=500&h=281]
Pilot Felt Workshop at Columbia College Chicago from Melissa Potter on Vimeo.