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Lots of Moving Parts

Molly

This year has started off with a bang. Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman and I did a fun workshop at Gallery Y on January 11 and so many of you came out to make collage and support our show, future / past, curated by Beth Ferraro. The show comes down this weekend on January 25 and there is one last chance to see it and meet the artists/curator at our closing reception tea party. Come by and say hello! You can let us know if you will be coming here (apppreciated not required, if you don't rsvp please still feel free to stop by): EVENTBRITE.


Molly McCracken and Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman pose behind a table arranged with trays of colorful papers for a collage workshop at Gallery Y. On the walls of the gallery is their show future / past curated by Beth Ferraro.
Molly and Anjelika set up for the workshop at Gallery Y.
Molly McCracken in a brown sweater is standing at a table in Gallery Y during the future / past exhibition helping a seated workshop participant with a collage. Lots of others are milling around and working on collages at the tables.
Molly in full workshop mode.

A large gathering of people sitting any tables and standing in a gallery with windows and a green wall in the background. People seated at the tables are working on colorful collages.
So many visitors came to make collage! Thank you all!!

It is also the last chance to see my three pieces up at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington in a show called Best in Class: Moca Arlington Artist Instructors. This exhibtion comes down on January 26th, so just a few more days! This is where I will be teaching Mixed Media Expressions starting on February 28 through March 21, Friday mornings from 10-12. If you are interested, check here for more information and to sign up!




I've also been working in my studio at Idylwood Studios and we are about to get classes and workshops started. Just waiting on lighting so we can see what we are doing! It has been ordered and should be installed in the near future, I will update here with class offereings as soon as we are ready. You can see the hallway below, which will serve as classroom space with my trusty studio assistant and with our planning committee.



Another thing I have been doing is mending moth-eaten sweaters. This has been a very meditative and soothing practice in the coldest part of the winter. I got some amazing and colorful wool from Carissa at Tint Makerspace in Falls Church and have been enjoying the process immensely. (You can sort of see that I was wearing one of the mended sweaters at the Gallery Y workshop!)

A woman (Carissa) in a pink sweater behind the counter in a colorful fabric shop with quilts tacked up on the wall behind her and a woman (Molly) in a light green jacket and hot pink hat standing in front of the counter and taking a selfie.
Carissa at Tint always has the best colors! Worth a trip.

I've also been thinking quite a bit about social media and how I spend my time. I am going to close down my Facebook in the next week or two because I just waste so much time on there and am not getting much from it other than a headache. I'll keep Instagram open, it is the platform I use the most and where I have the best, most lovely and talented art community. I also have Threads and LinkedIn accounts but don't use the as much (except the games on LinkedIn, have you played them? So fun). And, lastly, I have opened up an account on Bluesky and am seeing how that might work for my art related stuff. So, if you are on any of these socials, say hello! And, extra bonus points if you are reading this blog on my website, thank you for being here in my little corner of the web.


Screenshot of Molly McCracken's Bluesky home page. Her handle is @mollyfmccracken. The description says: Mixed media collage artist working with color and shape in northern Virginia. Find me at www.artistmolly.com.


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