June Newsletter! ☀️

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

oh my gosh it’s happening…it’s already going to be the start of summer this month! promising myself that i am gonna really try to do more camping this summer… but regardless it always just goes by too damn fast 🌀

…recent tattoos…

some fun pieces i’ve been lucky enough to get to do over these past couple weeks!

…recent art pieces…

three stained glass wall-hanging mosaics that broken dreams co-owner jesse sugar moore and i somehow finished up just in time for our store’s 4th birthday party! all are 14x22.5”, mounted on reclaimed wood, and for sale :) we had so much fun with these!

…my favorite ikebana i arranged last month…

upright heika arrangement of foxtail lilies & peonies

…artist of the month…

(*all this informed by finding an amazing egyptian tapestry and then doing a deep dive on its background!)

Ramses Wissa Wassef (Egypt, 1911-1974)

Born in Cairo in 1911, Wassef was an architect and teacher driven by a unique desire to revive Egypt’s ancient arts and crafts heritage and had an unwavering belief in the power of creativity to transform lives. In the 1950s, he founded and built an art centre just south of Cairo that included galleries, a museum, family homes as well as workshops for weaving, batik and ceramics. His goal was to create a place where local children could learn a diverse array of ancient crafts. At this center, the children were given all the tools they needed, never shown any external art, never criticized, and never made to plan or sketch out their designs. They worked at their own pace and whenever they wished. The results were incredible…after a year, children as young as 7 were able to complete their own highly complex pictorial tapestries. Still today, a handful of the first generation of weavers remain, their children and grandchildren learning as well.