Dear Friends,

Spring has turned to summer and we are enjoying the garden full of flowers!

I don’t normally write about my family, but I have to share the wonderful news that we learned this month. Our oldest daughter, who lives in Geneva, Switzerland, will be moving to Oakland, CA July 1^st. She has been offered a job with TransFair USA which is the company that brings in the Fair Trade products from all over the world, helping to give decent wages to producers and less money to the middlemen. We are thrilled.

Enclosed you will find the May newsletter. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great month of June.
Hollis

 Exhibiting – Berea College in Berea, KY has asked me to do a solo exhibit in April 2007. This will be an exhibit showing my monochromatic statement work. Each piece in the show will be a different color and will carry a message about social or environmental issues. My new Desmond Tutu piece will be shown for the first time in this exhibit. Berea has also invited me for a convocation event April 19, 2007. I will be speaking on “The Emotion of Color and How it Affects Activism in Art”. In the last years, I have been working uniquely with monochromatic color schemes in my statement art. Since each color evokes its own emotion, this is a topic that truly fascinates me.

My Latest – May was a month of painting. I finished painting my Desmond Tutu piece yesterday (check April Newsletter). It measures 88” x 88” unwashed. Boy is it big!! Here is a little glimpse of it:click here

Website – We have received the new giclees of “Fatima’s Son”, “School: It’s Never Too Late to Learn”, and “Nature’s Gift” and they are beautiful. We now have a secure system where you can order thread, fabric, prints and my artwork directly on line and pay by credit card or Pay Pal. This has been long in the planning and I am thrilled that it has finally happened.

Teaching– As I said above, May was a month working in the studio.

I was able to see the show “Art Quilt Images” in Cary, NC which I juried in February. Teaching in Oregon had kept me from attending the opening, so I was glad to be home this month and get down to the show.

In June, I will be teaching “Drawing III – Portraiture” in Berkeley, CA. For more information: click here

At the end of the month, I will be traveling to Des Moines, Iowa, to teach two workshops and present two lectures for the Des Moines Area Quilter’s Guild. For more information: click here

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