Jeanne Selep's Selep Imaging Blog: March 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Anticipation - Milwaukee's Art in Bloom event

Milwaukee Art Museum Art in Bloom flower arrangements Jeanne Selep Imaging

Milwaukee Art Museum Art in Bloom flower arrangement Copyright 2008 Jeanne Selep of Selep Imaging

There is so much going on in April. But one event I am really looking forward to this week is the Art in Bloom event at the Milwaukee Art Museum, April 2-5, 2009.
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Art in Bloom events are annual floral-art events held at multiple museums through out the US. (Boston's Museum of Fine Art, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Oregon and more) The Milwaukee Art Museum's Inaugural Art in Bloom event was first held last year in 2008.
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Multiple florists create bouquets of flowers inspired by works of art from the Museum's collection. The bouquets are displayed close to the inspiring art works, scattered throughout the museum. You get to see unique beautiful and inspired bouquets as you wander the art museum in a meandering tour.
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There are also lectures, demos, tours, a vendor area, and more beautiful flowers. For me, its a perfect combination of two of my loves - flowers and art.

The museum has events like flower ranging lectures and demos and landscaping lectures throughout the four days. The cost for the lectures isn't inexpensive, but the price means the museum can book top national designers and authors to fly in for the lectures. I attended a demo/lecture by Ron Morgan on flower arranging last year. Watching the top designer create 5 or more very different flower arrangements in an hour or so taught me more in 60 minutes then reading for 3 days would have. It was funny, entertaining and a great way to learn.

Milwaukee Art Museum Art in Bloom Copyright 2008 Jeanne Selep of Selep Imaging

I had arranged to meet Kyle Zubatsky for breakfast at the museum and we got to walk through the museum together. She owns a gallery and exhibits art nationally and so walking the museum with her was a particular treat.

On Sunday I took my family to the see the Art in Bloom show.

I hope you enjoy some of the photos that I took from last year's show - I'll try to get some photos from this year's show posted after this year's event.

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Waiting for Spring, again...

This weekend I saw a seven robins in a group while I was waiting for my son to finish his track practice. A flock of robins. It was great. I wanted to get my camera and take photos of robins, but I didn't have my camera with me.

Spring is my favorite season. I am so ready for it to be here! Last night it snowed. We even had a winter storm warning.

I thought I would share some photos from previous springs while I wait for spring 2009 to arrive.

Click on the images to see them larger.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

My first featured artist - Miranda

My first featured artist is going to be... My daughter.

I am very proud of this card - The artist is my 9 year old daughter Miranda. One day when I was creating valentines, she was given unlimited access to my stash and created this collage. It is fun to see what children can create with beautiful materials. She calls it "Deep Blue Ocean." She said signing the card I made from a photograph of her collage made her feel famous.

Pablo Picasso said "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

I am hoping that I have remained an artist, and I know my daughter is one. I love the look that children's art frequently has. Enjoy!

Monday, March 16, 2009

The snow is almost gone!

Spring is close by, and my tulips and crocuses are beginning to poke through the dirt.

The snow is melting, and some of my heart mosaics have reemerged from under the snow.

The mosaics are the only spots of color in the garden beds, which is one of the reasons I left them out all winter.

I made seven so different heart mosaics in 2007-2008, trying out different techniques and cements. You may be able to guess which ones were earlier experiments.

I didn't grout and seal any of these. They shouldn't be left out all winter, but the colors peeking through the snow was always so cheery, so I left them out.

My daughter made the circle stepping stone below using leftovers from some stained glass projects and other objects I found. For the next month or so, this will be about all the color we will have around here.

But if you want to see spring flowers right now, go to my on-line shop and click on the flowers and spring section. I have beautiful cards and photographic prints of many favorite spring flowers.

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