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<\/p>\nSome weeks I feel like a jack of all trades.
\nWhile painting, drawing & hand-stitching may be the face of what goes on here, plenty of other, behind-the-scenes activities are just as integral to keeping everything steaming along.<\/p>\n
These past weeks I’ve been preparing for an upcoming solo show that will run throughout the month of June. My stitched paintings of elder women — 2-1\/2 years of work — will be seen all together in one venue. I hope you’ll join me for the Opening Party on June 7th!<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, lots of unsung chores surrounding the show are keeping me busy. I’ve been cutting mats & framing the remainder of the 19 pieces that will make up the exhibit while getting the associated paperwork and computer records in order. I’ve designed an announcement\/invitation and have begun promotional outreach. Leading up to this point, I’ve spent hours writing artist statements, proposals, follow-ups and, as you may remember, assorted blog posts sharing the process of each piece over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n
There is a general wisdom that artists only spend about 50% of their time actually making art; the rest is devoted to business, which is just as demanding. How very true.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, please note that I am going to take a short break in early May. Look for my next post in 4 weeks, on May 22nd.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n If you’re looking for a diversion, Austin Kleon’s Substack post this week<\/a> is filled with all sorts of art-y goodness. It’s been a treat to slowly chip away at his links during my breaks. Each is a source of inspiration in its own way, especially “Art Thief: Lessons from Wayne Thiebaud”<\/a>. But if you only have time for one thing and are looking for a sense of connection across time, and\/or a source of hope, remember gardens and read Kleon’s 2017 post “Planting Iris”<\/a>. Iris<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a92019 Elizabeth Fram, Ink on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some weeks I feel like a jack of all trades. While painting, drawing & hand-stitching may be the face of what goes on here, plenty of other, behind-the-scenes activities are just as integral to keeping everything steaming along. These past weeks I’ve been preparing for an upcoming solo show that will run throughout the month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,262,17,862],"tags":[827,1516,1626,1490,614],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-gardens","category-process","category-textiles-and-drawings","tag-austin-kleon","tag-full-bloom","tag-jack-of-all-trades","tag-satellite-gallery","tag-wayne-thiebaud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-379","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Invitation](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Full-Bloom.jpg?resize=625%2C483&ssl=1\")
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\nPlanting season has arrived, time to get to it!<\/p>\n![\"Iris\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Iris.jpg?resize=426%2C550&ssl=1\")