EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS CALENDAR
Hello, and Happy Spring!
I hope you're doing well and getting through these trying times. As always, I find that doing my artwork is what keeps me going; it's a balm and a form of meditation. I'm grateful to have something in my life I enjoy so much -- I'm taking the advice of the writer Joseph Campbell and am following my bliss. In the meantime, I have a few art happenings to tell you about:
SAVE THE DATE
LONG ISLAND CRAFT GUILD 11TH JURIED FINE CRAFT FAIR
This spring at a new venue: THE NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART!
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 10am-4pm
The Manes Center at the Nassau County Museum of Art
1 Museum Drive, Roslyn, NY 11576
Free admission, ample parking
This is a first-time event in cooperation with the Nassau County Museum of Art, which approached the Long Island Craft Guild with the proposition of a spring craft fair, and we were delighted to accept. It's also great opportunity to purchase original handmade fine crafts directly from 16 Long Island artists in a variety of media and in a wide price range. I'll be there alongside my fellow Guild members with my light-as-a-feather paper earrings prints, original collages, framed and matted works, handmade greeting cards and more. Come by, check out the fair and say hello -- make a day of it and take a tour of the Museum and lovely sculpture grounds, too!
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!WHAT'S NEW?
A juried exhibition of fine crafts by members of the Long Island Craft Guild
May 2 - May 29, 2025
Reception: Saturday, May 10, 2-4pm
Jericho Public Library, 1 Merry Lane, Jericho, NY 11753
!What's New? will feature recent works by Guild members exploring new techniques, a new medium, or perhaps a new angle in their artwork...I've submitted three recent pieces for jurying which I created during my October 2024 artist residency in Japan. I hope you'll have a chance to drop by the reception and/or see the show.
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In other news....
I was thrilled to be featured in the Spring 2025 edition of the Huntington Arts Council's (HAC's) quarterly Arts Cultural Magazine, along with four other members of the Long Island Craft Guild as participants in HAC's Masters Showcase 2025. The show included nine artists recognized for receiving a HAC "Best in Show" or "Honorable Mention" award in 2023 or 2024. Five craft artists out of the nine winners is pretty exciting -- so wonderful to see that fine craft is finally starting to receive its due!
WHY, my mixed media found object sculptured in
HAC's Spring 2025 Arts Cultural Magazine
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Another bit of exciting news and a "first" for me -- I have been commissioned by a Long Island business firm to create ONE THOUSAND (1,000!) individual greeting cards, each one original art, for the firm to send to their clients around the holiday season. It's quite a challenge, but I have a year and a half to complete the task. And to be honest, I'm having as much fun with it as I do making my mixed media paper earrings!
Challenge accepted!
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News at the studio...
For the past year, I've been teaching semi-private collage classes in my studio and am enjoying it immensely. My core group of four wonderful women is so smart, talented, and a joy to work with. They accept my weekly collage challenges with only a tiny modicum of resistance ;-) -- and often something great and unexpected results! [One of my all-time favorite quotes is by Alice Walker: Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. That surprise can be where the joy is!]
One more news item...on May 14, 2025, 11am - 2pm, the Art League of Long Island (ALLI) in Dix Hills is offering their members a tour of Sally Shore's and my studios, plus a free ribbon weaving workshop given by Sally -- participants will leave with a lovely woven piece and a new skill! Art League members can contact ALLI to sign up. We're excited to welcome them to our studios! And please contact us if YOU are interested in a studio appointment as well.
Me and Sally at the studio
That's all for now...thank you for checking in with me. I'll post interim news on Instagram (@nancy_yoshii_studios) and Facebook at Nancy Yoshii Studios. Until next time...
Be well, Nancy
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