Arful gatherings of eco-dyed fabrics from my garden, odd scraps, and little studies in slow stitch— pieces of the old finding their way into the new. Recovery from grief and illness began a journey where I found myself thrust into a story I had never foreseen. I had landed somewhere I'd never imagined I'd be. I didn't feel lost. Not even disoriented. More exactly, a new sensitivity had been unearthed. For the very first time in my creative life, I discovered a deepened sense of simply being...

Artful Gathering Online Art Retreats ran from 2011 - 2019. Just around the time that the world began to experience the worldwide epidemic called Covid-19. I had already started my brief sabbatical from my event work. It was time for a break. After nine years of production, management, teaching, technical work, payroll, accounting, and networking, I decided it was time for me to take all those hats off for a while and enjoy some well earned R&R. That was not to be. Instead, what I was about to...