NEWS       

May 2012

Snow at Midnight (carved and painted basswood)

Summer again is on the way – and changes to the website will be coming, too. Aida
and I met in early April and decided that it’s time for a new look and a format that I can update with new images on a more frequent basis. So stay tuned for a new, improved presentation.

Nest (color woodcut)

My winter has been busy with art and teaching. I was more active than ever in the statewide Artists in the Schools program. I worked with four different schools for a total of ten weeks of teaching. I am finishing my final residency in Sterling on the Kenai Peninsula right now, and spent time at schools in Golovin, Glennallen, and Fairbanks. Alaska is such an interesting and diverse state – it has been fascinating to spend time in such different communities, and to get a sense of the lives people live in these varied places.

I am not doing any solo shows this summer, though I continue to deliver new work to
The Alaska House in Fairbanks and I’ll be sending new pieces to Bunnell Street Gallery in Homer soon. I am one of five artists featured in an upcoming show at UAF’s Museum of the North called “Art in the Making.” It opens on May 12 and shows the process of creating a piece from start to finish. The museum crew was in my studio filming in November as I made a woodcut print, and it was really fun to have them in there.

I was surprised and delighted to be chosen as one of four artists for this summer’s
Artists in the Parks program on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. I’ll be there for a bit over
two weeks in July. Not much can pry me from Alaska in the summer, but this is an
opportunity I can’t pass up.

The rest of the summer will go too fast – but I’ll spend it in the usual assortment of
working with plants, biking, and spending time in the studio. I have a February show
scheduled at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, and July 2013 at Alaska House, so
it would be wise to get started over the summer. . .

When the website is restructured this page will disappear, so check my blog
(saratabbertstudio.wordpress.com) to see what’s happening.

Dora grows up!