Sponsorship Opportunity
Sponsorship Opportunity
The Support, encouragement and benefits given for dedicated time needed as an artist, is an honor small scale creatives have the opportunity to thrive within the support of.
In 2019, I quit all my teaching jobs, where for decades I fondly, generously offered my full self, and innate ways of activating the freedom of expression for others!
At the time of my rebirth, I held, inspired, collaborated and satisfied as Artist in Residence in three schools along with the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Here I tended and supplied studio classrooms, supported close to 400 expressive students, and 50 staff.
At that point, I boldly shifted my focus to be a fulltime studio artist. I jumped off my cliff, went out on my limbs and trusted my calling to give myself the opportunity to live more fully as an artist and commit this facet of my life to my own expressions, rather than Mid-Wifeing others’ experiences.
On a shoestring, with no funding, I am developing my studio, glazing pallets, buying equipment, and networking to immerse more deeply within my work in Public and Private Arts Commissions, which you see here in my new Website.
These large scale handmade Tile Installation Projects embellish and sustain beauty, bring communities together for valuable collaborative experiences, and enhance homes and gardens in Northern California where I live and work, near my children!!
At the same time, I am producing pottery, sculptures and body care products with very little funding. I am not able to take out a loan as I have no credit and no guaranteed income.
At this moment, I am in year four of this new direction, though I moved twice in this time, heading to the Sierra Foothills and back again to Sonoma County. Unfortunately, experiencing a deep set back within this choice of moving twice in a two year period.
Most humbly at this time, I reach out to the world at large, my family and my community, to vulnerably go out on another limb, to source, as artists have been doing since Medieval times, while I dedicate to create webs of connection to source Patronage for the development of my Arts Income.
My offerings have been steadfast and dedicated in service of providing MultiMedia Community Arts Experiences for others since 1979. Now it is my time to express and devote.
At this time, sponsorship to help bring me closer to my dream, activate time in the studio, where I can work on major works of art, rather than soap dishes and mugs… is a dream I wish to envelop and live!
Simply requested, here on my website through PayPal on the Donate or Donate Monthly spots at the bottom of each page, you will find a simple way to sign up for ongoing regular patronage on the cycle that suits you, to support my unique situation as I develop my business.
These funds will support my studio rent, project development time, the production of sample panels for local tile stores, the making of press molds for some of my tiles to go more into production, along with allowing time to develop a mature, refined body of work