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Maatera
Registered User
(4/22/02 12:48:43 pm)
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Another intro...
Hi
I've found this list a couple of weeks ago and I've posted a few
times so I figured that it was about time for me to introduce myself.
My name's Connie Toebe and I am a fine artist. I do strange little
boxes with scenes in them. There like miniature stage sets... sorta.
If you're interested, I'm putting together a web page with some
of my stuff. It's a work in progress right now so there isn't a
lot of information there, but you can see some of my stuff. It's
here: www.designdesign.com/Connie/index.html
I use a lot of mythical and fairy tale imagery in my work. I actually found this board while looking for information for one of my boxes. I get most of my ideas from reading, reading, reading so everyone's ideas on books to read has been great! Now if I can find the time to read them all.
Connie
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Kate
Unregistered User
(4/22/02 4:08:26 pm)
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Great
Connie,
Wow, I really like the work you do. Thanks for putting the link up.
While at the Art Institute, did you take any writing classes? I know a couple of people who teach there. Neat program.
Again, thanks for posting your link.
Is your work for sale? Must be prohibitively expensive, I'm sure, but I thought I'd ask.
--Kate
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Maatera
Registered User
(4/23/02 8:10:39 am)
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Of course they're for sale
Hi Kate
Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you enjoyed looking at my work. There are going to be 6-8 more boxes up by the end of the week so keep an eye out. I'm getting the scans ready to go today.
I took a couple of English classes while at the Art Institute but I graduated quite a while ago so I'm not sure if I met your friends.
As for the pieces being for sale, of course they are. I've only been doing these for a year or so (previously I did photography and painting) and have just started looking for places to show/sell them. Since I'm just starting out, you can buy them at bargin basement prices. I'll be putting prices up on line as well in a couple of days but they start at $100 + shipping for the smallest ones. As I sell them, the prices will be going up. If you're interested, please let me know. It's always a thrill when someone connects with your art and I want them all to go to good homes.
Connie
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Terri
Registered User
(4/24/02 6:09:49 am)
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Re: Of course they're for sale
Connie: Your work is amazing. Please let us know when your own web site is up and running. What do you make these boxes out of? (Perhaps we should move this discussion to a thread for fairy tale art?)
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Gregor9
Registered User
(4/24/02 7:38:48 am)
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Re: Of course they're for sale
Connie,
Your work is terrific.
Greg
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Maatera
Registered User
(4/25/02 1:03:31 pm)
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Introduction
Hi
I've moved the discussion of my art to "Fairy Tale Art"
but I wanted to add a few things here as well. I was looking through
everyone else's intros and noticed that quite a few people here
are artists as well as writers. I'd love to hear about your art!
(hint, hint) I have to say, it's really "neat" to be part
of such a talented and intelligent group of people. Well, to be
more accurate, such a talented and intelligent group of people who
share the same obsessions as me. With rare exceptions, the "offical"
art world isn't too keen on fantastical art so it's nice to be able
to show my work and not just get puzzled looks. You guys are too
cool
Finally, Terri, I went to your Edicott studio website. It's wonderful! What a great resource. Your paintings are just beautiful.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for the warm welcome. I think it's too late for me to make plans but maybe next year I can get to this WisCon thing you're all talking about and meet some of you in person.
Connie
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Marie
Registered User
(5/12/02 9:08:45 am)
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Re: Introductions.
Hello all,
I've been 'lurking' - reading the insights and discussions - for a while now, and thought it was about time to take part.
I am also a visual artist, with a hobby-like interest in writing. I feel I'm still at a student level, but I'm working my way up, slowly but surely. This discussion board has been a large part of my education - leading me on to new and fascinating paths.
I, of course, enjoy folklore and myth - though what I'm really fascinated with is modern fiction or art, infused with folklore. My work has ranged from mask making, to collage, to traditional watercolor.
As Connie, I'm also hoping to go to Wiscon next year. Their artist and writers programs just sound amazing - I've never seen anything like them at other conventions!
Well, I'm looking forward to learning from and taking part in future discussions.
Pleased to meet you all . . .
~ Marie
Edited by: Marie at: 5/12/02 9:11:17 am
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erzebet
Registered User
(5/12/02 4:14:25 pm)
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Re: Introductions.
Marie,
Do you have a website where we could see some of your work?
curious Erz
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Marie
Registered User
(5/12/02 4:45:36 pm)
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Re: Introductions.
Erzebet ~
Unfortunetly, no. I had one, but the ISP went under. And I haven't finished the one I started on. But thank you for the interest! =)
Good luck at Wiscon, btw ~ hope it all goes well for you.
~ Marie
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judih
Registered User
(5/16/02 1:55:12 am)
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Re: Introductions.
happily discovered you all
what a variety of fairy tale delightfuls
and such art
this is a wealth
i'm a poet
painter (mostly for the therapy)
puppeteer
i work with kids
opening their minds
and i love the resonance
of legend and tale
myth got me into this
and myth keeps me happy
site:www.geocities.com/privaj_2000/index.html
you'll see many links if you venture there. poetry/paintings/and such but nothing specifically fairy taled.
good rich lives to you all,
judih
edit: my current interest is the female in tales, the cinderella essence, the forest imagery, and presently doing a course in which the prof thinks Bettelheim is it, along with Marie von Franz...so i'm collecting data.........
Edited by: judih at: 5/16/02 1:57:51 am
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Gregor9
Registered User
(5/16/02 4:40:03 am)
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Re: Introductions.
Judih,
Warning: Bettelheim ain't it.
Greg
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Kate
Unregistered User
(5/16/02 12:35:20 pm)
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Art
Connie,
I am potentially interested in purchasing "Red Queen" or "Bird Watching." Can you let me know the prices for those? I'm figuring out my budget, and maybe I can afford one of them this year. Maybe both. It's hard to say right now! I'd love to have two to hang side-by-side.
They're lovely.
Best,
Kate
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Maatera
Registered User
(5/17/02 7:53:59 am)
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Re: Art
Hi Kate
Thanks! I'm sure we can work something out. Why don't you email me at ctoebe@yahoo.com as the details don't make very interseting board reading. If you have to make a choice between Red Queen and Bird Watching I'd go with Red Queen. It was a really tough one to put together and up to the very end, I wasn't sure it was going to work out. When everything ended up falling into place I was really thrilled and so it's become a favorite of mine.
Anyway, send me a line and we can talk about it.
Connie
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Kerrie
Registered User
(5/21/02 3:05:12 pm)
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Deepest, warmest thanks!
Dear everyone,
I just want to express my deepest gratitude to the members of this
discussion group- without this board, I think I would certainly
go mad, especially after the day I had today! Just reading all of
your posts puts me in a frame of mind that says, "I know what
I like, and I know what I *want* to do." Having met some of
you, corresponding via email, etc. you are the most wonderful people
I have ever known, and to all new members, welcome- you are in good
hands.
I just had to say that.
Soft whispers and valley blossoms,
Kerrie
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Carolyn
Unregistered User
(5/22/02 3:18:53 pm)
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Hello lovely & talented folks!
I tend to drift in and out of this board as time permits, and I am delighted to meet all of you through your posts. My name is Carolyn Dunn, I am a wife, mom, poet, singer, teacher, former radio & print journalist, youth mentor, and wannabe artist (didn't inherit that side of the family creativity though my mother, sister, and aunt all are/were very talented artists). I co-edited the anthologies Through The Eye of The Deer (with Carol Zitzer-Comfort) and Hozho: Walking In Beauty (with Paula Gunn Allen) an am the author of two volumes of poetry Outfoxing Coyote (That Painted Horse Press) and Hidden Creek Journal (Coyotesse Books).
My father's side of the family are Muskogee Creek/Seminole/Cherokee and Black Choctaw from Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina; my mother's family are all French Creole and Cajun from Bayou Country (Opelousis, Echo, Carencro) in Louisiana. I have two beautiful children, a son age 5 1/2 and a daughter almost 1; a Hollywood Indian for a husband, and one red Akita who thinks she's a human and I can't handle her very well...! I also sing with the all woman native drum group The Mankillers, (www.the-mankillers.com) for whom I write songs in the Choctaw language with my handsome husband. I teach at Cal Poly Pomona in Ethnic & Women's Studies, hold an MA in American Indian literature from UCLA and a BA from Humboldt State University (CA) in communication. I logged in some course work for a PhD in transpersonal psychology and am now trying to decide if I return to that program (after taking some time off to have my daughter) or apply to an interdisciplinary American Studies degree from USC or Claremont Graduate School.
Blah blah blah, enough about me. (www.hanksville.org/storytellers/dunn) Ok, well that is really enough. I am very jealous of those headed to Wiscon this weekend... (drink a toast of bubbly water in the direction of Southern California, will you?) I enjoyed reading about all the lovely people whose words are so inspirational and hello to all of the newer folks who are the same. I fell in love with fairy tales as a child, my mother was a teacher who read quite extensively to me; and as I got older I became fascinated with the storytelling traditions of Native America, in particular the Deer Woman narratives of the southeast. A general love for these stories brought me into Terri's universe, and she is a great champion of my work and of other Native writers. I am also a huge fan of hers as well as other Endicott folks: Midori, Charles, Neil Gaiman, the Frouds... I tend to lurk on Surlalune because of my hectic schedule and as time permits am working several long running projects: a Deer Woman novel, a Native sci fi novel, which I am developing right now, an American Indian Studies textbook and a new volume of poetry. I am also a Capricorn which tends to force me to overachieve and my babies require much of my attention so my writing tends to be on the backburner. However, this summer, I will only be teaching one class at Long Beach State and after that I will lock myself in the den and not emerge until Deer Woman says all she needs to say...
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/22/02 5:53:17 pm)
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Welcome Caroline
Since the usual posters (does that make those of us who wish we had talent poster children?) are at WisCon, I think it is up to me to welcome you. What wonderfully interesting insight you could bring to the board! I think we could always use more Native American tales and folklore. Carrie has given us some, but I am so excited to learn more about it. I personally tend to babble about my perspective on things, which is all shooting from the hip, but I have learned a lot from these folks (and my subsequent readings.) The amazing thing is people don't shoot me down for it. Such a pleasant board to lurk and participate in.
Enjoy and welcome!
Jess
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Charles Vess
Unregistered User
(5/22/02 6:06:31 pm)
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Hello Carolyn...
Great to hear you speak up and *WOW* what a busy life you leed.
I look forward to seeing where Deer Woman takes you and somewhere down the dusty road, reading the completed novel.
I certainly enjoyed your short story in the Green Man anthology. It inspired one of my best illustrations for the book. I do hope that they've sent you a copy by now...
Best,
Charles
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(5/22/02 10:09:54 pm)
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Welcome
Well, not ALL of the usual posters are at Wiscon. I am sitting in my writing corner at Wayside, in St Andrews, Scotland. The day is rising grey (not unusual here) and the garden is fresh after late spring rains.
Welcome indeed.
Jane
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/23/02 6:45:42 am)
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Carolyn and Jane
Carolyn,
I misspelled your name. A big sorry.
Jane,
I am sorry (sheepishly grinning), it just seemed so many were going to WisCon. I should learn precision in language from your fine example. Hope the writing is progressing well. I too am sitting in my writing corner in Poulsbo, Washington. The day here is a misty overcast with a background of deep, lush green broken only by the bright pink of rhododendrons blooming in the forest.
Jess
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Carolyn
Unregistered User
(5/23/02 9:09:26 am)
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Hellos
Jess, thank you for the wonderful greeting. I don't mind that you misspelled my name; actually I was named for my great aunt Caroline so that is a good thing. I also was up north in Ft. Bragg last week and realized how much I miss the rhododendruns and azaleas and trees and all that makes a Northern style rain forest so amazing.
Jane: one of these years we will come & visit your neck of the woods---I love those gray days and did some of my best work inside by the stove, wrapped in a blanket. Thank you for your welcome!
And Charles: every day I go by the post office and look for my package from Ellen; it has yet to arrive. I think I will harass her for it! And I appreciate your words on the story. I can't wait to see your work in Green Man and thanks for your thoughts on kudzu!!
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