Fall Open Studios at the Alameda Artworks

second saturdays: November 9 & December 14th, 11am - 5pm

34 Alameda Artworks artists will be participating; besides me you can see the work of: Carmen Arjona-Ariza, Helen Bellaver, Amy Brown, Kim Meuli Brown, Elise Burrows, Marc Casad, Sara Cole, Bernadette Cooper, Taryn Curiel, Ayelet Gal-On, Linda Gass, Dan Ghelfi, Lucy Ghelfi, Yolanda Guerra, John Harper, Gloria Huet, Ally Kraus, Sylvie Levesque, Belinda Lima, Patti Linder-Dodd, Margaret Luo, Moeko Machida, Stacey Nussbaum, Anne Pegolotti, Alex Ramirez, Dara Renova, Ayesha Samdani, Sabrina Sanchez, Gretchen Sand, Chieko Shimizu, Lynne Strom-Berg, Michael Strom-Berg, Renee Switkes, Nancy Walters, and Claire Whitehead.

My location is: 1043C Garland Ave, San Jose, CA 95126 ; Green Door Annex (through the lime-green door off the parking lot behind Recycle Bookstore). See the map/directory below at the bottom of the page.

We are wheelchair accessible. Parking can be found in the lot behind Recycle Bookstore, in the lot behind Crema and Visual Philosophy, and along the neighborhood streets. Sorry, due to ancient plumbing we do not have public restrooms available.

 

What IS Open Studios? What can you expect?


Open Studios is an event in which visual artists invite the public to visit their workspaces in person. Why would you want to do that?

  • to get a behind-the-scenes look at how and where art is created

  • to learn more about the artist and why they make what they make with their specific tools and materials

  • to purchase original art, prints, and gifts directly from the person who made them

  • to sign up for classes and workshops

A visit to my studio offers a glimpse into the curiosity (or perhaps obsessions) that drive me to make weird and beautiful things. You’ll see a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ of sorts, with specimens from real life (bones, seed pods, plants, metal bits) intermingled with specimens I shape from wool and felt. I’m very happy to talk about and demonstrate the techniques I use: stabbing at wool with specialized felting needles, poking it through paper to make ‘wool drawings,’ and stitching thick, flat industrial felt into dimensional objects. I love to share my process through public talks, workshops, and classes as well.

I’ll be showing and selling: