Lovely Rain…

So we got rain, a lot of rain, lovely rain. Still raining now, but pretty lightly. No flooding here, although I did a little sweeping, sand bagging (without sand or bags), and trimming in the rain. It came earlier than they said it would, so I was caught out a bit. Plus I’ve got a cold, so the body is not fully willing…or able. I’m functional…just tired and achy and a little spacey at times. Right now feels like “at times.” I’m hoping breakfast and some tea and the meds kicking in will help with that, but you never know. I have two relatively chill days here…although maybe giving a test isn’t a chill day with this crew. Hard to say. They do fight the power, albeit very ineffectively and with no real conviction. I wish them luck in their futures.

Temperatures have also dropped drastically from 105 degrees a week ago to the high 60s today. I’ll take it! It’ll be back up to the 90s on Friday apparently. October is always a little nuts weatherwise. It used to always be the beginning of Fall…and the end of it, honestly. Right now, it can’t decide. I was going to go to an art in the park event on Saturday after my art group meeting, but it was pouring rain by then.

So I managed to finish the stitchdown on Friday night…

This was after a 45-minute nap on the couch and a dinner that consisted of toast.

Impending cold, plus flu/COVID shot…ugh. Dog for comfort.

Then Saturday, I went to an art meeting and bought binding for this thing, because my quilt store is not open late enough during the week, and if I’m going to finish this in time to get it to the photographer, I can’t wait until next Saturday for binding fabric. Then I cleaned the floor, washed the batting, pieced the back, ironed everything, and pinbasted…

With kneepads on. Great suggestion from a friend. Totally makes it easier.

Then started quilting on Saturday.

I quilted a lot this weekend…

I got all the outlining done last night…

Almost 6 hours in. Background quilting starts tonight.

We’ve had some animal friends this weekend…this guy on the roof…

I also have video of what looks like him coming in the yard. And this video near the big hole we found near the tree…

We’ve always known there were coyotes around. This was around 1 AM. We have seen them in broad daylight though.

I did do some school stuff this weekend, although being sick made me forget about one thing I was supposed to do Friday night (I didn’t feel well…). So I did that last night. No emails from students, so I guess that’s how it goes. This week starts a new unit, but a lot of my coteachers will be out for a couple of days; I’m expecting some stupid behavior from that. Routines are good for kids! I’m just going to try to get as caught up with school as I can at school, so I can come home and finish this quilt. And rest up. Possibly more importantly.

There’s this…

I’ve never been much of a fan of religion, but especially not in the case of retribution and vengeance. It’s a little dark and evil for me. And I’m not a bright, sunshiny person in general. I would like to put all the pedophiles on an island (ironic) together. With no one else. Think Lord of the Flies but with the perverts. Works for me.

With that thought, I’m going to need to go to work. I’m medicated. I have tea. I remembered what I’m eating for lunch. I’m giving a test today (they will have a hard time with this one, for sure). And collecting more packets (ugh…I just finished grading the last unit). We have a staff meeting after school to cover some (cough) very important things. Plus meet with our special ed teachers (like we don’t talk to them all the time). I’m debating ceramics after. Not sure I’ll feel up to it, but I didn’t go all last week. I’m just thinking I’ll be too tired and I already need to get this quilt done. We’ll see. I have to cook tonight too, so that’s an added task that gets in the way of making art. I need AI to do THOSE things. Cook and clean and grade…it does a lousy job of the latter. Unfortunately. It’ll be fine. I’ll figure it out. And make art in the process. Been doing that for years.

Perhaps Too Much of It…

Well. It’s Friday. And some little widget at school got me sick. Also I chose to have a flu/COVID shot yesterday, thinking I might not be sick. Might not have been the best choice, but I’d already rescheduled once. I have another doc appointment today that was scheduled months ago. I’m pretty sure if I try to reschedule now, they’ll charge me…we’ll see how I feel I guess. I can always mask…but she does need to look at my face. Sigh. I don’t have time to be sick. Or the energy for that matter.

Hopefully it’ll be done with me quickly. I have a lot of work and art stuff to do this weekend.

Artwise, I’m in the stitchdown phase…

This is last night…

I don’t have a lot left to do…enough not to do it last night, but…the plan is to have this pinbasted and start quilting tomorrow. I do have a meeting tomorrow and a ton of grading to do (when does that ever change?)…and I’m sick. So there’s that. But it will get done. Possibly in between naps.

Today at school will be a shitshow. Lots of kids flailing on roller coaster build, so we’re simplifying. I’m setting up a few models today around the room, and will let one group at a time use each of them. They take too long to build (it’s been four days of it y’all; I’m out) and require too much maintenance to not do stupid stuff. I need them to get everything done today so we can finish this project and test on Monday. The next unit has to be done before Thanksgiving Break, so we are limited in time. We moved the test partially because there was supposed to be some drill during half of one class period today, so that was my original take…move the test; they won’t have time. And I emailed admin, and then another admin. Finally got an answer last night that no, the drill one admin said was happening was not. Another one was happening next week. The lack of communication is lovely. Really. A pleasure. Sigh. Also the info that finally came at 8 PM last night? From a Monday question? Whatever. I know they’re like, “It’s not a big deal.”, but it is if you are picking days to have a test based on their schedule.

Oh yeah, I forgot this…

It’s OK. It’s a silent letter. Those are hard. But if you do British English slang at all, oh my. I laughed anyway. Because I am a child. I ran into a student and parent last night, a parent I’d been trying to reach about promotion and attendance and grades. It was a nice trip to the grocery store. That kid. Seriously. Get it together and come to school.

ANYWAY. So today will be more controlled chaos (still chaos) with some direct instruction. Followed by a doc appointment I might reschedule. Some lying around and feeling sick. Some grading. Some stitchdown. Hopefully ALL the stitchdown. And piece a backing plus wash the batting. It’s cooler today again…a little every day…but then remnants of a hurricane starting Saturday night…rain, finally, but perhaps too much of it. Of course.

Dropping Multiple Balls Somewhere…

You know, it’s funny…we’re almost out of this oppressive heat wave (one more day over 100 degrees, maybe) and now there’s a hurricane pointed at us. We don’t get hurricanes. We get the hurricane leftovers from the Gulf of Mexico and occasionally tails of hurricane weather from further south, but this one is currently pointed right at us. Like WTF. Between the global-warming-induced crazy weather (El Nino is coming!) and the nuclear bombs the president wants aimed at us, it looks like a lot of people are going to have to cancel their San Diego vacation plans. Right?

My response to this?

How do you SAY you have dementia without actually SAYING you have dementia? Like that. That’s how you do it. And there should be more calls for his removal. Maybe after the hurricane comes. It’s OK…mostly we’re going to get waves and rain…the hurricane itself is supposed to stay out at sea or break down into a storm or something more benign. Unless you live near or on the ocean or somewhere that might flood.

During all this, I managed to finish ironing the current top together…

Impressive standing-on-chair photo.

And I started stitchdown…

I also found out that In the Wrong Hands is going to Quilt National in May 2027.

I did enter two dye paintings as well, but they are a different animal. I’m hoping to be at QN again, but it’s always right around state testing, which is problematic. And a 3-day weekend. Also problematic because my district likes to control how and when we take time off to an almost insane level. No 3-day weekends unless you’re sick, in which case, you’re requesting a sub at the last minute. Which is silly in May, near the end of the year, when there’s a 3-day weekend. People have weddings and graduations and art exhibition openings to go to. So we’ll see.

The Pope is up for the art exhibition openings though.

True that. Let AI clean my house. I give that up to them. Gladly.

My sweet barn owl left me a gift one night this week.

Oh yes. That is a large owl pellet. Good times.

Some things just need to wander off for a few years and then I’ll deal with them. Maybe.

OK, kids have been building roller coasters, for some definition of ‘building’. Most of them are fine. Some are not deep thinkers though and do stupid stuff. I’m 3/5s of the way through grading packets WHILE they test roller coasters. Tomorrow, I’ll have to record videos of them working, so I need to get as far as possible today on the grading. We’re up to 5 kids suspended, which honestly, has helped. Kids doing stupid things does translate out into the bigger school world, and then they’re not in class anymore. For a while. Makes projects more chill. Sometimes. Anyway, there’s a meeting before school that might be full of defensive folks (usually has at least one) and I have pilates after school…plus a book club meeting. So I might get some homework graded in between that…I might not. And then I’ll be stitching mushrooms down for at least an hour. My goal is to be quilting by the weekend. I’m going to need to buy binding this weekend too. It’s all good…I’m probably dropping multiple balls somewhere that I’ve forgotten about, but they’ll come back to haunt me at some point.

Intense Heat…

It is October, right? Usually it cools down by now, but no. We were the third hottest place in the world on Saturday, I think. It’s supposed to be hotter today? No climate warming though. This is not a sign of the end of the world…at all. Scientists didn’t predict all this crazy weather. It’s just random. Cough. Cough. Yeah right.

I did actually manage to iron in the heat. The studio was 95 degrees last night…went down to 90 at some point. But here was Friday night’s ironing…

Hanging over the edge…and a top view.

Saturday, I managed some ironing during the day…

Almost hitting the floor…and a top view…

Last night, I ironed the rest of that hand and a few floating things, and then realized the background I’d picked from my stash a month ago wasn’t big enough (whoops), so went through the stash again and found one that’s big enough that will hopefully work. We’ll see how that goes tonight. I forgot to photograph anything yesterday. It was hot. I was tired. I was trying to get the background worked out. I just need to piece it and I can iron things together. Start stitchdown. Of course, this week is a crazy shitshow so I don’t know how I will get things done, but I will. It stays hot through Thursday, although the worst of it appears to be today and tomorrow.

Saturday night, we went to an opening with my work in it, at the Covet Art Gallery in Oceanside. They published this photo before…which is good, because there were too many people to get a photo like this on Saturday.

We managed this…

And I took this one from outside as we left…

It had kind of cleared out by then. They had a nice big outside area in back where many people were hanging out. Good DJ. Funky lighted clothing. I think I want clothing with LEDs in them. Not a lot. Just a few.

This poor little ceramic piece caught my eye. It’s by Elizabeth Marshall.

People who leave their cups everywhere at art shows drive me bonkers. There are trash cans, y’all. Be a useful human.

I also liked this piece…by Cathy Carey.

There were a lot of pieces in a very small space.

Other things we saw in Oceanside included this comfortable skelly…

This beautiful palmed sky…

And dinner…

The Man said I was drawing a squashed fairy. Maybe I was. It was hot at the beach too. No relief there.

The animals are definitely looking for cool spaces…

Tile is nice.

Luna is just a weirdo.

Simba kept coming close to me…

Like, don’t touch me, you furry beast. Soon after this, I dunked him in the pool to cool him off. Seemed to help. But then I saw this guy…

These guys are ground squirrels…I wonder if it’s not cooler underground? Or if he got kicked out by his mom for being annoying. He was there for a while. Catching the breeze. The nonexistent breeze. Yeah, I enjoyed Home Depot on Saturday because it was air conditioned. So was pilates. I went in the pool with the dog. Briefly. I had too much work to do. I got a healthy chunk of it done, but it just multiplies. My car has oil, though the light is still on (fuck. Need to go back and make them fix that), I passed the smog check, I got my blood tested and my A1C is down to prediabetic levels (woohoo!), I went to the chiropractor, got stuff for the project this week, and managed to get most of the sprinklers working, for some definition of working. I’ve been watering things in the dark. It works.

This crap.

The vengeful part of me wants each of them to experience rape and then still say this, but I’m not an evil person (don’t talk to my students about that). And men can’t get pregnant, because that’s the second part of this. The Cornell 7 doesn’t make me feel better about the male half of the population…and the vast numbers of people and part of the government that protects them. We need politicians to pass a test on the main subjects we teach in school. Don’t pass? Can’t govern. You don’t have the brains for it. Jodie in Texas…honey, your state is one of the worst for helping women with reproductive health. Shut up.

Anyway. Sigh. Full week this week…full of a project that might test my sanity. But also might give me time to grade. It better, because I’m behind and I can’t bring it home with me. Too many other things going on. I have something after school every day this week. But today, they get minimal materials and they will test out the shapes. We’ll see how that goes. Then a two-hour staff meeting on something we already do. Fun times. I might make it to ceramics; we’ll see. It’s not air-conditioned usually. Then home to water things and iron things. Might have to do some union stuff in there too. Vote y’all. Vote well. And may the heat fuck off too. With the rapey people. They deserve some more intense heat.

Not a Fan. Using Fans.

Hello Friday…a Friday off from work…well, notionally. I will still be working, but around the 70 million errands I need to do this weekend. Right now, I’m downing a ton of water so when they take my fasting blood tests, I won’t get poked 17 times while they try to find a vein. I’m hopeful anyway. So yeah, I haven’t eaten, no caffeine yet. I’m leaving soon (not sure I will finish this before I leave). Also delivering two quilts to a local show, then I need an oil change AND a smog check, plus I have chiropractor, and I need to grade a bunch of tests. And other stuff. Plus it’s supposed to be 105 degrees here, staying hot until next weekend. Not a fan. I will be using lots of fans. Right now, it’s not bad…it’s still in the 70s in this room. That will not last unfortunately.

I started ironing (the best thing in the world to do when it’s hot) a few nights ago. Here was Wednesday’s progress…

Mostly I worked on that mushroom circle…

It was easier to iron it separately and then put it on top of the background fabrics.

Last night’s progress…

I spent two hours ironing things last night. I’m missing one mushroom piece, but it’ll probably show up. I had to cut another missing one because I couldn’t iron down without it. I’m in the 200s at the moment…really hoping to finish it all this weekend, but the oppressive heat might work against me. There’s no air movement at all at the moment. I can have a fan, but only below the ironing board level, and it’s basically just moving hot air around. So I’ll probably mostly iron at night.

I went to ceramics on Tuesday and was trying to clear the newspaper off the base of my piece, and I broke the arm. FUCK. I had done really well, with zero breakage. So frustrating. So I tried to patch it but I don’t think it will hold. I can fix it in the bisque stage, but trying to get it into the kiln without damaging it more will be a challenge. Clay can be such a pain. So I’m avoiding going in because of that, probably. Also, it’ll be really hot there. There’s A/C but it is a challenge to cool a room that big.

I met my parents’ new dog last night, Frida. She seems sweet.

Mom looks tired in that photo. Frida was just spayed; she’s 5 years old and looks bigger in that photo than she really is. She came up and got pets and scritches and licked my leg. So we’re good.

Anyway. So I have lots of stuff to do, most of it not relaxing or chill. There will be no chill for the next week. It’ll just be hot and sweaty. But hopefully ironing will happen around the hot and sweaty. Do I appreciate the random day off? Well, notionally…because yesterday with kids after a morning assembly was more than I really wanted to deal with, and I have a ton of work to get caught up on, but it’s a silly time for a day off. Hopefully I can at least check off a bunch of things on the to-do list (I forgot Home Depot for lab supplies). That would be a plus.

Slower and Sweatier

I was looking forward to this weekend. It’s three days for us (random school board decision), and I knew I’d have a ton of grading and other stuff to do (car needs oil change AND smog), but with three days, I had a chance of getting a lot done AND having time to relax and make art (those are two separate things by the way). But now it’s supposed to be hot as hell and I don’t have A/C and it sounds like ugh. Plus I’m at the ironing stage of this quilt, so doing hot things during hot weather is honestly not particularly fun. Quilts are hot. Hot on your lap. Irons are hot. They put off heat. I can’t have a fan pointed at my head because all the tiny pieces will fly off. So it’s even hotter. Three-day weekend doesn’t sound so lovely any more. Oh well. I’m still going to have to do the things; I’ll just be much slower and sweatier about it.

So I started to sort on Monday night…

Scribble kept trying to stand in the boxes. I spent an hour plus before this packing two quilts to be shipped, so I didn’t have a full hour to sort. At 11 PM, I remembered I had to be up early for a parent meeting, so I stopped…

And finished last night…

It never looks like much here. Just tiny pieces. I started ironing last night, but I didn’t get far.

I also entered a show. And laid out the first 100 pieces, most of which are much smaller than this. I’m not sure I’ll be finishing this piece in time for the deadline. I’d like to, but there’s a lot left to do and the day job is a time suck. All my grading time at school gets sucked up by other things. I have a kid who will be out for an unknown amount of time and we’re doing a hands-on group project. The curriculum has nothing relevant she can do, so I’m not sure what to give her. I will have to spend my prep period figuring that out. For one kid. Of 140+. It’s frustrating.

So interesting question…why do so many words associated with extreme heat start with the letter ‘s’? I don’t think I would have noticed if my weather app wasn’t overusing them.

And the next day…

Does sizzling feel different than scorching? I mean, I’m sure it does…dropping below 100 degrees after 104 (now going to be 106) will be noticeable. Sizzling has a sound factor that scorching does not. They both have smells associated with them. Yes, overthinking the weather. It’s not fall. It’s hell. I think I’ll take a break every 30 minutes and step into the pool? Maybe? Dripping chlorinated water and ironing might be a bad combo.

A German woman contacted me about writing an article for an online German textile publication. Here’s the article. I have another interview to do for one in Los Angeles. It’s been a heavy art BUSINESS couple of weeks: deliveries, pickups, packing, shipping (expensive!), writing stuff, etc. I have one more blogpost I need to do for another art group, but haven’t been able to find the time. Oh wait, I think there’s two I need to do. Ugh. Add that to the list.

Today though. Today is Wednesday and it is still a reasonable temperature. Hell starts tomorrow or Friday I think. I swear, every time I look at the app, the predicted temperatures have gone up. Now Saturday is 109. So today and tomorrow are still bearable. Good to know. I have to meet with a teacher this morning about a union issue; I need to talk to another teacher too, but IDK when that will happen. I’m finishing up a simulation today and then trying to reteach how to write the reasoning part of a CER. Double ugh. Then pilates and a Zoom meeting. The Man took over cooking tonight, which is a good plan. Apparently he doesn’t like eating at 8:30 PM (IDK why…I’m totally OK with it). Somehow I need to grade stuff in there, plus fix a sprinkler that looks beyond my capabilities, and iron some more. Same old.

Probably Not Enough Times…

Well that was a busy weekend. I’m still tired from it. I may have been semi-productive around all the things I had to do. I dropped a quilt at a gallery for a show that opens Saturday. I went to another exhibition closing reception and then pulled all 6 of my quilts down and packed them into the car to drive home. I was there for the artist panel, which I enjoyed, but I did work through it.

Writing and sending our team’s weekly email. And then grading warmups and test corrections. I was supposed to be on a Zoom from 3-4 and totally forgot. It’s fine. Hopefully they recorded it.

It was a nice panel. I’m always up for listening to fellow feminist artists.

I cut stuff out Friday night…that’s the moon. Ironically, after the shitshow of a day I had on Friday, I found out the full moon was Saturday.

Everything makes sense now.

Saturday night, after the Man’s dad’s birthday dinner (and 3 hours of canvassing for the local school board and another 3 hours of grading).

And then last night, I stayed up late to finish.

Almost 11 1/2 hours. Ready to iron together? Well, no…it’ll take an hour to sort all the pieces into 100s for easier ironing. So that’s tonight. Am I behind my schedule? Well, yes, I usually am. Can I catch up? We’ll see. I’m buried in grading; hence the grading at an art event and every afternoon/night this weekend. Never stops. But I’m closer.

Friday night, Bowie needed to be close.

And then, so did Simba. Well, he always needs to be close.

It’s hot again here, although we got a tiny bit of rain last night…leftovers from one of the hurricanes off the coast. There’s like four of them rotating around out there, throwing shit our way, but mostly hot and muggy shit instead of decent rain.

The Man’s dad turned 89 this month, so there was a dinner for him.

Not actually in Venice unfortunately.

This is too true.

I’d like to thank my brain for all the overthinking I do when I’m trying to fall asleep. I have a couple of potentially stressful conversations that need to happen today with other adults at school. One I think will be OK. The other one is defensive as shit and there’s no way it will go well. So that’s fun. Imma try anyway because I’m a mature adult who knows she has to work well with other people. Crazy, huh?

Otherwise, there’s like two hours of staff meetings, plus reviewing PE/KE for the roller coaster project, plus grading ten tons of stuff and buying a bunch of other stuff and trying to fix the sprinklers AGAIN and packing quilts to be shipped and/or delivered. Pro: got into four shows. Con: all the packup, dropoff, and pickup. Then grading and cooking and book club (timed dinnermaking wrong, didn’t I?) and then sorting fabric. Probably more grading. Did I mention grading? Yeah. Probably not enough times.

Be an Adult

Hello Friday…before weekend of chaos. Seriously, this weekend is a shitshow. Already looking forward to next weekend. Today, kids will need to finish a unit packet and turn it in, and then actually be mature enough to evaluate their own work and progress and complete missing work. It’s babysitting hell. But I brought it on myself. I can monitor and bug the shit out of them with our monitoring app, or I can ignore that they’re all on games and Instagram and get some work done. It’s exhausting either way. Like sir, your progress report is available to your parents today and you don’t want to do anything about your F in effort? Interesting.

Meanwhile, I did test corrections at lunch yesterday and 48 kids signed up. I had every chair in the classroom full. Only 40 showed up, luckily. And now I have to grade those. That’s 2 hours probably. On top of this week’s tests, which I barely started, and the packets they’re turning in today. I couldn’t deal with any of it last night. I graded two classes of homework after my stitching Zoom. I finished my book (it was at 83%). And I cut things out for two hours. I should be able to do that.

Anyway. Here’s Wednesday night’s trimming…

I forgot to take the official setup photo last night. I even set it up but then took a photo of the dog instead. Here’s last night’s progress (taken this morning).

Starting to see progress there. Left side is done; right side isn’t. I wanted to be done this weekend. I don’t think that’s possible. Here’s the dog picture though.

The boychild is gone a lot in the next three weeks…so Simba is sad. Or he’s an old man and this was after 10:30 PM and he wants to go to bed. Me too, Simba. Me too. Oh wait, it’s morning. I can’t do that for another 15+ hours.

I’ve been going to the chiropractor, trying to get the neck and shoulders to behave. Definitely much better, but it takes up my ceramics time. So I didn’t get there all week. Pro: neck is better. Not best, just better. It’s getting warm again here. It’s not fall yet until sometime in October. Still 90 degrees plus. On top of that, we’re getting the tail end of a few hurricanes, so the humidity gets bad, and that’s worse than the temperature honestly.

Anyway. Today at work was summarized above. I’m not looking forward to it, but I’ll try to be as efficient as possible. Then chiropractor and hopefully pharmacy pickup (they’re so annoying about notifying when there’s a delay in processing…I don’t want to drive up there if it’s not ready). Then grading and housework and cooking dinner and grading some more and then cutting stuff out. Tomorrow isn’t as chaotic as Sunday, but they’re both pretty bad. My fault for getting into shows and having to take them down and having to canvass for work and all that crap.

OK, be an adult. Do adult things.

Not That…

I feel like it must be later in the week than Wednesday. I was ON all day yesterday, teaching writing and graphing. Mostly OK, but like pulling teeth in a couple classes. Certainly lets you know which classes are lacking in some skills. Good thing to know. Since the standard we’re learning about requires graphing knowledge. At least knowing which line is going up faster…or whether it’s going up or straight. Sometimes I think old people thoughts like, “Back in the day, we could actually get them to do math in science.” Not so much now.

In between the 17 meetings (school and art) and trying to get my yard under control, I have been cutting things out. But first, I sorted the fabrics I used by color…168 fabrics in this quilt.

Heavy on the earth tones. Here’s Monday night…

It never looks like much…that’s more than an hour’s worth of trimming.

Last night, I cut these two crazy mushrooms…

Very satisfying to finish. Kind of crazy to contemplate.

I stayed up too late to do another hour. I had two Zoom art meetings last night and I graded through both of them…I thought about cutting stuff out, but getting the assignments done was more pressing. I just finished the last test/packet grading cycle and another one started. We did the test Monday and the packet is due Friday. Ugh.

I have a piece that was at the Rancho Penasquitos library, traveling, currently at the La Jolla library, that will go to University City library next month. These are photos from Rancho P.

It’s the quilty one in the bottom right.

I think this is the 3rd library?

Some San Diego library patrons have been trying to ban books by checking out the ones they think are problematic and then not returning them. Dick move. This exhibit is about banned books, so it’s important that it travels.

Today I’m teaching conservation of energy…another concept that might be complicated. Certainly it’s another day where I am ON ON ON all day. Then pilates after school, figure out where I put all the greenery trashcans and put them out, maybe fill some more, cook dinner, and then I get to cut things out. Hopefully. Long day. Parents are finally on their way home, so I made the last mail trip for them. Nice to have that off my plate. Looking forward to the trimming part at least. And reading my book. It’s a good one. Not written by AI. I read enough of that all day long. One art meeting last night kept talking about what they were using AI for, and I’m like, nope. Not doing that. Not encouraging that. Not destroying the planet for THAT.

Openings & Closings: Come See My Art

There’s a bunch of these coming up locally, so I’m putting them all here.

The Feminist Image Group show Master Glitch is closing this Sunday at the Techne Art Center in Oceanside. There will be an artist panel from 2-3 PM. The closing reception is from 1-4 PM; this is your last chance to see this exhibit.

I have 6 pieces, mostly big ones, in this exhibit. I will be there at some point, probably later.

Then Saturday, October 3, from 5-9 PM, I have one piece in an Oceanside Art Museum Artist Alliance exhibit, In Flux, at the Covet Art Gallery.

The exhibit will be up for most of October if you can’t make it on October 3. I will be there at some point, probably earlier in that time frame.

The last one is a California Fibers’ exhibit, Tactile Thinking, at Hyde Gallery at Grossmont College. The opening is Tuesday, October 27, from 4-6 PM.

I will have two pieces in this exhibit. I will be at the opening.

That’s what’s local for the next month…