MINT announces the Leap Year artists and guess what!?

That's right!  Yours truly was selected as a Leap Year artist!  I'm so freaking excited and honored and really a little scared.  It's going to be amazing and the benefits and perks are outstanding but I know this is when shit gets real so I'm just trying to keep my mind together as I swim through this and the other things I'm doing and trying to do.  It's amazing though.  I met the other artists last week and they already seem incredible to me.  I'm really pumped to see what's going to happen this year.  The other two artists are Johnny Drago and Rebecca Hanna.

MINT made the announcement on their facebook page and Burnaway provided some brief coverage here: http://www.burnaway.org/2012/08/mint-gallery-announces-second-round-of-leap-year-winners/

Erica called me about two weeks ago during the middle of the day to let me know.  I laughed like an idiot for about five minutes and then asked is she was kidding. Yeah, I'm dumb.  I wasn't allowed to really talk about it till now which was both fun and a little nerve racking.

So freaking pumped.

Squeeeeee!

EDIT:
Creative Loafing provided some coverage as well!
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/08/09/mint-announces-leap-year-grant-recipients#more

CL Press about "Your Knot" and Community Conversation

Partially for my reference bute here's some press for the Community Conversation Wonder Root and Untie Atlanta are hosting at Ontologic tonight at 7.  Creative Loafing used an image of my print-woo hoot.

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/07/24/community-members-gather-to-discuss-atlantas-knot

Image Courtesy Wonder Root

More publicity for me + free tickets to the Jack Daniels Urban Art Show

My sister found this article today about Atlanta Printmaker's Studio which also features an image of my work.  Sweet!  A+ for free publicity!

Check it out!

Also, I was reading through the creative Loafing today and saw an ad for Jack Daniel's Urban Art Show and free tickets so I immediately hopped on my new smart phone and scored some admission.  Very fun.  It looks like a killer show so I'm pretty pumped.

And finally some at work doodling for your entertainment (this is how bored I am some days):

Publicity for Atlanta Printmaker's Studio

I was recently told I should include a picture of my work with every post...
guess I will unless I end up with something more relevant.

Here are some of the articles that have come out in the past few weeks about their members show, which I have yet to see!

Creative Loafing
Arts Critic ATL
Access Atlanta

Atlanta Printmaker's Studio in CL and Emerging Artist Residency Exhibit

So the residency I have been a part of since January with the Atlanta Printmaker's Studio has come to a close and the reception for the show, which is currently hanging in the Portal Gallery of the studio, is this coming Thursday, July 14th at 7 pm.  It will feature my prints as well as those of Ann Otterness, the other resident artist and we both will be giving artist talks.  I am freaking out.  I'm excited of course, but also insanely nervous about the idea of talking about my work for twenty minutes to everyone that happens to come.  I'm sure it will be fine but I'll definitely need to remember to keep my pace slow because I have a tendency to talk like a hopped up hummingbird (you know, 1000 beats per minute or whatnot).

In the mean time, APS has also been hosting a member's show and Creative Loafing covered it in their most recent issue.  It's an excellent article and I can't wait to see the show myself.