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and they were really doing some interesting work. Part of the project was to bring in some of the sewing aspect. I talked a little bit about sewing, I did a quick demonstra- tion, and I gave them all needles and thread. Some of them were really interested in it.”
Ms. Bronstein has been preparing for her workshops with Flagstaff students for some time, collecting odds and ends from her own home, old music books, encyclopedias and paper, and asking co-workers to donate un- needed and interesting/bizarre objects. She has an impressive box of things, a treasure trove to someone who loves to glue stuff to stuff (like me!).
“I’m really excited to be here and to work with the students,” Ms. Bronstein says.
In addition to working with students while she is here, Ms. Bronstein is also do- ing workshops and giving talks open to the public. While she is here, she is working on her own art in a studio space adjacent to the Jewel Gallery.
Ms. Bronstein shows me the paper purses she has been making and has done a work- shop for. She also shows me a bra and panty set sewn from a world map rubber ball, and another from perfume ads.
“So these are the other things I’ve been working on,” she says, laughing as she pulls out the world bra. “It was one of those in- flatable beach balls. I started thinking about how all these names for female body parts have very interesting meanings, but they’re all objects. I started looking online at slang
words for body parts for women. I started looking at all different ways I could interpret that. Some of them were literal, and some of them, well... this one,” she says holding up a pair of paper panties with a lobster across the butt, reading Let’s get cracking. “This one was actually a lobster bib that my husband wore at a restaurant in Rhode island.” She shows me a pair of panties sewn from an or- ange sack, with the red netting as frills along the side.
It was a fun afternoon in the company of a very inspiring artist. “Underneath it All” will remain on display at the Coconino Center for the Arts through February 16, 2013.
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ALPHABEt RuinS
“Alphabet Ruins,” a series of monotype prints by Rachel Wilson will be in display at Mountain Oasis International Restaurant this February.
“The series is a really an important one to me,” Ms. Wilson says. “It represents a junc- ture in my work when some ideas about passing time and changing cultures co- alesced into a productive vein of creativity. The prints are about how groups of people wash over landscapes and leave fragmen- tary traces of themselves: petroglyphs, al- phabets, signs, roads and ruins. Though various pieces from the series have been seen around town over the years, I am really happy to have an opportunity to show so much of it together in one place.”
Alphabet Ruins with Broken Road is among the series by Rachel Wilson featured at Mountain Oasis this month.