Another Visit to the Crow Barn
I spent the last two weeks of May in Ohio studying with Nancy Crow at her Timberframe Barn studio with a group of other intrepid artists. This was my seventh time studying with Nancy, and it was intense and challenging, as usual. The class was called Creative Stretches in Compositional Exercises–kind of a mouthful. But…
Back from Nancy Crow class in Arizona
I spent the first few weeks of 2023 in a workshop with Nancy Crow at the Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, sponsored by Madeleine Island School of the Arts. Like all of the classes I’ve taken with Nancy, this one was intense. Called Lines, Curves, Circles and Figure/Ground Composition, it was a deep dive…
Back to the Crow Barn
Well–I did it again. I’m just back from my fourth trip to Nancy Crow’s Timber Frame Barn in Ohio. I spent two weeks there studying Advanced Composition with 20 other students. The first week was Overall Figure/Ground Composition and the second week was Spare Composition. I wasn’t sure if I was going back because I’ve…
Another Two Weeks at the Crow Barn
I’ve been home for a little over a week from my third trip to the Nancy Crow Barn in Ohio. It’s an intense, exhausting, exciting two weeks immersed in art–not just fiber art, but Art with a capital A, full of exploration of color, line, shape, composition, and design that could apply to any medium…
My Week at the Crow Barn
I have just returned from an exhilarating, humbling, exhausting week at Nancy Crow’s Timber Frame Barn in Ohio. Nancy Crow Timber Frame Barn – June 2017 It was my first trip to the Barn for a week-long workshop with Nancy, and I had no idea what to expect. Of course I had talked to several…