KARA HAMMOND: ITINERANT ARTS

For the past several weeks, in February and March of 2020, I had been working on a large scale panoramic drawing of “Athena Entrusting the Phrygian Cap to the Next Generation”. This was to be in honor of Women’s History Month. I expect it will stay up for several months in its current form, as the studio is practicing “social distancing” until the pandemic subsides. With any luck, I’ll get to work on it some more before too long.

Working from home in the meantime. Keep safe, everyone. Look out for one another and make something good while you’re sheltering.

On the back wall of the studio, a scroll with the Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

This February in Open Studio, it’s time for a large-scale collage mural construction project, in preparation for Women’s History Month, in March.

This means making preparatory sketches, collecting images, ideas, a gallon of glue, fusing large sheets of paper to lots of smaller pieces of paper, then putting it all together on the wall of Open Studio. Inspirational topics to include the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and the 2017 Women’s March.

If you would like to contribute your ideas for the Women’s History Month mural, come by the studio and write them down for me at Gallery Hop, February 7, 2020. You may see your idea integrated into the finished piece, which will be on view through April, 2020. Open Studio @ Art Connections, 629 N. Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101.

Time again for block printed holiday cards. Lots of different images, several new designs to choose from, including “Sled Dog”, “Xmas Octopus”, and “BAH!”.

Each one is hand pulled, printed on rice paper or card stock and is unique. Sizes 3″ x 5″ to 5″ x 7″, priced $5 to $8 each.

Kara Hammond’s Block Print Cards are sold only through Sunday, December 22, so don’t procrastinate. Come by and check them out!

At Open Studio, 629 North Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101.

Some colors I recently made have inspired a few new pieces.

Earlier this fall was poke-berry season, whose fruits ooze an astounding magenta when freshly squeezed, and mellow into a rich russet-burgundy as the ink oxidizes.

Also discovered some nice earth colors in the silty runoff of various parking lots. When combined with the copper oxide, walnut, rust, and acorn iron inks, some nice combinations occur.

• Piney Hollow Walnut
• Winston Winterberry
• Avalon Acorn
• Experimental Hibiscus
• West End White

Each hand made from foraged or found materials.

$7 for 30ml

Come by the studio and try them out!
629 N. Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC

Open Thursdays and Fridays, 10am – 5pm

Saturdays 11am – 6pm, Sundays 1pm – 6pm