{"id":1508,"date":"2016-01-28T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2016-01-28T20:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:09:19","slug":"icing-on-the-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/icing-on-the-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Icing on the Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel pretty darn lucky that I am able to spend most days with my head fully immersed in art, whether in the making, facilitating through volunteer commitments, or learning from the vast reservoir of creativity that has gone before and continues to forge ahead.<\/p>\n

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Black Holm<\/strong> \u00a9Fraser Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n

The challenges are continual and at times a bit overwhelming, but I’m surely never bored; there is always another stone to overturn, another solution to seek, another visual metaphor to tease out. It is a means for finding connection on both a personal and a general level — providing the basis for some of my strongest friendships, while at the same time satisfying my need for independence.<\/p>\n

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Five Sepals<\/strong> \u00a9 Sarah Amos<\/p><\/div>\n

So while I happily do what I do for the personal satisfaction of it, the icing on the cake is in getting the work out there to be seen and shared.<\/p>\n

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Gallery View<\/p><\/div>\n

Last Friday was the opening reception for Intimacy + Materiality<\/strong> at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, VT. Presenting an eclectic and probing mix of work by a selection of artists from Chicago, Brooklyn, NYC, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Vermont, curator Rachel Moore has created an exhibit that is cohesive, yet which also celebrates the breadth and diversity of expression to be found in the art of contemporary textiles.<\/p>\n

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Undercurrent, detail<\/strong> \u00a9 Jodi Colella<\/p><\/div>\n

These images are just a sampling from the show, which will be on view until April 10th. If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll stop by to check it out. I’m sure you will find something intriguing to reflect upon as you leave.<\/p>\n

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Cup of Enchantment<\/strong> \u00a9 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel pretty darn lucky that I am able to spend most days with my head fully immersed in art, whether in the making, facilitating through volunteer commitments, or learning from the vast reservoir of creativity that has gone before and continues to forge ahead. The challenges are continual and at times a bit overwhelming, […]<\/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":[83],"tags":[169,167],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-contemporary-textile-art","tag-intimacy-materiality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-ok","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","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=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}