Mixed-media artist Debra Tomson Williams arrives today from Pittsburgh. Here she is preparing "Feel Better" for a recent exhibition.
Gallery visitors were invited to take home one of these hand-crafted plastic tissue boxes. In exchange, Debra asked them to tell her about a time when they needed a tissue and didn't have one. Those memories will be made into an artist's book - possibly this week!
Debra and I met in 2000 at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She was my roommate and my classmate in a Josef Bajus' fiber workshop. We email several times a week, but I haven't actually seen her since 2003 when we met in Baltimore to catch a show at the American Visionary Art Museum, a museum of "outsider" art.
She'll spend a week here at Paradise Ranch, working with me in the art studio. Or not working, depending on what we feel like doing.
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