Make-Your-Own-Radium-Girl Collages and their Makers!

The January 24th Gallery Crawl at Future Tenant yielded some fantastic collages and art by visitors. Here are a few examples, and some photos with the Make-Your-Own-Radium-Girl creators!

Check out the next image for what's really inside this girl's head....

North Carolina, New Women in Water, and New Linocuts

 So! After an extended hiatus on the blog here, I will explain why I've been away so long. Michael and I went to Asheville, North Carolina for our anniversary, and we had a fantastic time. We spent two days visiting Biltmore (had an amazing dinner in their dining room, a picture of us on the veranda just before we went downstairs for our amazing four-hour dinner is just below); visited the amazing Battery Park Book Exchange (and champagne bar), got to take a train trip on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad; went gem mining at Rose Creek Mine in Franklin, NC (and had the best banana pudding and cream of broccoli soup ever at the wonderful Sunset Diner nearby); went to the Ruby City Gem Museum; and spent some time at Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley, NC, and were lucky enough to be in town for First Friday, when all the galleries and shops were open late...among a ton of other things. It was a wonderful trip, making the 9-hour drive totally worthwhile. Asheville is a beautiful town (I was there for an undergraduate research conference back in 1996--eek! That's nearly 20 years ago.) There are so many young people and so much great energy. I can't rave about it enough! Also, a shout out to the great Julie Armbruster, whose amazingly cool work I got to see outside her (sadly, closed--we stopped in on a day when she wasn't working there) studio in The Wedge Co-op, above the Wedge Brewing Company in the River Arts District.

In more local news, I am really excited to announce that an installation of my Radium Girls art will appear in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District in January 2014. Hooray! I'm working on the pieces that will be part of the exhibition now. More on this to come...exciting details on the where will follow soon, I promise!

Also, (so much good news!) some of my Women in Water works will appear in an upcoming issue of Boxcar Poetry Review. I am so honored to be part of this wonderful online literary journal!

And finally, I've started making linocuts, and I've applied to join the Pittsburgh Print Group, so I can join other printmakers. It's been years since I've made prints, and although I've used some etchings and aquatints as the basisfor some of the work that now hangs at GalleriE CHIZ, I haven't actually made any new prints until last week, when we got home from vacation. It's a new-ish and exciting medium for me and the possibilities seem endless.

Now, some pictures....

Michael and I on Biltmore's veranda in Asheville, North Carolina just before our
fantastic anniversary dinner.

Me outside Biltmore, George Vanderbilt's gorgeous mansion, messing with the lion. :-)

Michael and me in the outdoor palm court at Biltmore. We meant to get those Blue
Ridge Mountains in there, but our heads are sort of in the way. :-)

Michael and me in Bryson City, before boarding the Smoky Mountain
Railroad train trip.

"Women in Water: Evie with Pitchforks and Hammers"
New! Finished while we were on vacation....

"Gravity's Rainbow" (2013) linocut print on handmade paper

"Starry Night" (2013) linocut print on handmade paper

"Tribal Stripes (2013) linocut print on handmade paper

"Women in Water: Louisa in her Fur Coat" (2013), ink on paper

My work at Pittsburgh's GalleriE CHIZ and new studio work

I'm excited to announce that my art jewelry and several of my works on paper will be on display and available for purchase at the fantastic GalleriE CHIZ in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood. I've always loved this gallery for its creative atmosphere and happy vibe. Owner-Director Ellen Chisdes Neuberg and Assistant Director Blanche Baxter are wonderful, and I'm so glad to be among the gallery's artists. Check out the gallery's beautiful mosaic facade--

GalleriE CHIZ is located at 5831 Ellsworth Avenue  Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Here, my art jewelry is currently available for purchase, and my works on paper will also be
available for purchase shortly.   

Right now, I'm working on pieces for Rochester Contemporary Art Center's 6" x 6" exhibition. On Monday, I finished the first of three works,"Astronomy Professor". An update on this will appear soon, as I am almost done with work two of three.


Savannah Schroll Guz, "Astronomy Professor" (2013)
aquatint, oil pastel, gouache, gold leaf, cotton thread, drawing paper
 and ball point pen on heavy grade cotton paper.

Does he look familiar? He's on my sewing machine in this post.  More to come!