UpCoMinG!

                                                                                     "Ain't we all a slave?"                                                                                               Ishmael chapter 1, Moby Dick

    Moby Dick characters  c 2012 JoAnne Spies collage 22x30

                                                             

Moby Dick cards are ready

Moby Dick Fortune Deck  Fedallah's Fortunes
         copyright 2012 JoAnne Spies

                                                                              

copyright 2012 JoAnne Spies
Fedallah's Fortunes
Moby Dick cards

I created card-sized portraits of the characters
in Moby Dick to make fortune cards with quotes 
from each character. I'm looking forward to using
the cards in music and songwriting  games at my summer 
teaching sessions at Becket Arts Camp and the Berkshire Athenaeum.

When making the copies I could see the pictures
would make an interesting painting lined up side by side
in five rows.

Here's a peek at one batch of the cards above.

I invited Lenox, MA artist Paul Graubard to make some 
of his folksy characters to add to my deck. 
We each agreed that making a painting of these miniature characters 
would be a good idea. His spin on my concept
is hanging at Ferrin Gallery. My painting will be 
at an upcoming show at the Book Store in Lenox, MA
curated by Jim Youngerman. 

cd cover JoAnne Spies; oil on paper

                                                       from "Fedallah's Fortunes"
                                                                                                 J. Spies
                                                     

 UpCoMinG:
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00pm
Sunday, May 13 at 1:00pm 

Annual Gala and Fundraiser for

Community Access to the Arts 

at the Founders Theatre

Lenox, MA

Nathan Smith, left and Ben Friedman

 Thanks to all who made this event at the Norman Rockwell Museum such a success!
Here's link to more photos and poems:

blog for Karaoke Confession

photos by Tammis Coffin

JoAnne Spies leading audience through Norman Rockwell galleries in her performance 'Karaoke Confession'

with St.Patrick/Joseph jimmyjangle

main gallery Rockwell Museum call and response

  Gracie Berry by the Golden Rule