About Me 0124: May 2011

Participating artists:

Beth Barron explores memory and the present in her altered and then further embellished pieces.

Charlene Burningham, one of the mainstays of quilting in the area, not only shows how piecing and quilting can be used to obtain surface pattern, but that weaving – often in unusual materials – can provide the same visual interest.

Nancy Eha, with her complex and time-consuming beadwork, focuses gently on social issues that the viewer will immediately recognize.

Bernadette Mahfood is an expressive artist in several mediums, and is able to be decorative at the same time she is making serious social points.

Barbara Otto combines ancient sewing stitches with the latest in digital imagery to produce intriguing collages in textile.

Christine Pradel-Lien creates tapestries that tell stories, both familiar and enigmatic, and is a master in her craft.

Karen Searle works in three-dimensional textile creation, and is unafraid to tackle difficult materials, and also questions about society and gender roles.

“Skimming the Surface: Pattern and Narrative” is offered in conjunction with the Surface Design Association Conference, Confluence, held in the Twin Cities June 4-17. St. Thomas will be one of the stops on SDA Gallery Day, Thursday, June 9, from noon to 5 p.m. For a schedule of conference workshops, participants and gallery tour stops visit the SDA website.

All events are free, open to the public and handicap accessible. For more information contact Sue Focke, (651) 962-5560, or visit the Art History website.

Despite declarations of love for Maria Shriver and hopes for reconciliation, the mistresses are beginning to surface. The Mirror pointed out today that Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘mistress’ denies causing marriage break-up. The article sounds a lot like those we read during the Tiger Woods mess. But there is one very big difference. When the disintegration of marriage is all over of the news, babies do not hear the gossip. In this case there are four grown children. And one child is front and center in a Tinseltown tidbit, but Gossip Cop assures us that Patrick is not dating Miley Cyrus.

As we have seen with all of the high profile infidelity cases with older children, gossip not only hampers reconciliation, but it strains the children. In this case the children are: Katherine Eunice born in 1989, Christina Maria Aurelia, born in 1991, Patrick, in 1993, and Christopher in 1997.

The headlines are blaring. The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago Sun Times noted: “Sources close to the spouses say the collapse of the marriage was caused by multiple allegations of the aging action star’s marital infidelities. . .” Schwarzenegger infidelity allegations key to collapse of marriage …

The Mirror said that there appeared to be a principle mistresses who shattered the marriage, but she claims she was just one of many.