January is nearly over and I’ve made absolutely no progress on my Artsy Projects for 2025! ⏰ Here are summaries of my top three. Can you help me pick just one to focus on? (Please scroll down to vote.) 

 

To complement my Wicked Plant Art collection, this journal features a mix of lined and blank pages, providing the perfect space to record thoughts and images inspired by your own collection—be it poetry, drawings, musings, random ideas, or anything else that sparks your creativity.

 

This collection will consist of 5-7 pieces centered around a striking centerpiece: the antique altar I discovered in Omaha’s Old Market neighborhood. (Click here for photos.) Accompanying this focal piece will be my “two sisters,” a suspicious looking Benedictine monk, and other oddities I have had the privilege of collecting over the past few years.

 

I envision this completed project as a hardcover coffee table book featuring over 100 pages of my collage and assemblage work from the past twenty years (2005-2025). It will be fun to explore how my color palettes and techniques have evolved over time.

Thank you for taking the time to vote. I appreciate your input!

The Minneapolis Institute of Art has been less than a four-hour drive away from me all my life and yet I’d never been there! A few weeks ago, I finally made the trek and absolutely loved it (of course). The place is filled with art, sculpture, miniature dioramas, larger than life portals, architectural oddities, and so much more. Here are three of my favorites: 🦋

This oil painting by French artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was painted between 1892-1895. Henri apparently spent a LOT of time at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, as it became the inspiration for quite a few of his paintings. This piece and several others in the collection are on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago through March 9, 2025. 🎨

This Italian funeral torch is a symbol of life in a ritual commemorating death. The torch (created around 1702) would have accompanied the structure displaying the coffin of an important person in Catholic funeral rites. A “symbol of life” seems contradictory in a funeral setting, but it visually reinforces the idea of resurrection held sacred in Catholic beliefs about death. 💀 

“Ganymede and the Eagle” was sculpted out of marble between 1817 and 1829. According to Greek mythology, Ganymede was cupbearer to the gods. Then Zeus got involved and (not surprisingly) created all kinds of drama. The sculpture was created by Bertel Thorvaldsen who was accepted into the Royal Danish Academy of Art at the youthful age of eleven! 🦅

 

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