“Sound . Cosmic Vibration . Life” (Sun Ra sound) piano strings, tuning pins, keys, copper power wire AN ALABAMA SONG is on view at the downtown Birmingham Public Library through Oct 2. #sunra #sculpture

VOICE OF THE COSMOS #sunra #collage

SOUL NEST 🪺 NESTS opens Aug 2 @sumaccottage during the @alaudubon Black Belt Birding Festival. “[S]He looked at [her] Soul with a Telescope. What seemed all irregular, [s]he saw and showed to be beautiful Constellations; and [s]he added to the Consciousness hidden worlds within worlds.” #coleridge

On the Road to Donaldson Fall 2022 : : Outside the Fence #outsidethefence State route 269 to William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility #peoplearepeople ❤️ playing with combos #polaroid #film

“264 Bushels” Wiregrass Museum of Art CONSTRUCTIONS: Contemporary Fibers | July 17 — Dec 27 #collage #sydneyatstudiobythetracks

JULY 12 is the last day to view BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD @lowemillarts! Come see me and my Sun Ra sister @theneedlepointwarrior in the North Floor Gallery this Saturday for Open Studio Night! 5-7p #sunra was #sonnyblount was #hermanpooleblount

“Joan Was a Delta Sigma Theta” #encaustic #collage @joantrumpauermulholland • American civil rights activist • Freedom Rider • arrested in Jackson, MS: 1961 • confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit — "Parchman Farm") • later established The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation

Collage with papers Sydney tore. #artfromtheheart #donation #sydneyatstudiobythetracks #collage

Last night was fun.

🥁🪘parade for #sunra

Happy Arrival Day, Sun Ra! #sunra #graverubbing #handmadepaper

SUN RA FEST is happening THIS WEEK!! MAY 21-24 Pictured is a collaboration happening with Craig Legg (!) @eastvillageartsbham for the Arkestra’s going away party 🚀 SATURDAY MAY 24 11a — 2p $10 (txts at door) art exhibition • music • moon stew potluck #piano #sculpture #sunra

Montevallo, AL

Happy International Jazz Day! 🎹🎶✨ BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD opened today @lowemillarts and runs through mid July. It’s heavenly to share the experience with my Sun Ra sister, Leanna Lesley (@theneedlepointwarrior)! #internationaljazzday #backinyourownbackyard #sunra

🪩 SEATS AVAILABLE! Let’s hang and make paper! SATURDAY, APRIL 26 11:30-1:30 @magiccityartconnection Registration and more info: @magiccityartconnection Enjoy hands-on experience with a variety of fibers while learning techniques for forming + enhancing sheets. #handmadepaper

🗣️BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD is coming to Lowe Mill this May! @theneedlepointwarrior and I will have new works + a parade on May 31 🥁 pictured: contributing puppet artist, Anna Sue @lowemillarts #sunra #backinyourownbackyard🎶

🗣️ opening tonight!

Sound of Sound opens tonight at Ground Floor Contemporary | Birmingham, AL | 5-8pm OH EVERY DAY, YES EVERY DAY :: Strange Things Happening Every Day #johnnycash #rosettatharpe #holyblues #painting on #textile

The spirit of Emma Lou Dailey embodies Beatrice, our shared HOMEplace. Her life reflected an Alabama past and she bestowed wisdom on all of us, her fictive kin.

Hi, friends! I’ll be leading a fabric and paper collage workshop at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts one week from today (Saturday, March 29) from 10:30-12:30: FREE register at mmfa.org

The opening reception for Roots and Wings happened tonight @artsrevive in Selma. I so wish I could’ve been there! This is a piece I submitted: NASHVILLE PREPARED ME handmade paper + mixed media + hand-built walnut frame @pfaund_wood_werks 💌 #encaustic #collage #johnlewis #nonviolence

“Embodied: Contemporary Takes on the Dress” is up @jc4arts in Troy! Reception is April 12. • a bundle of sentimental souvenirs + cardboard alphabet cutouts made with K and A when they were little. • I imagine our bodies as cosmic creations and our minds receivers of signals, waves, and the like 📡

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

One of my first encaustic collages: 2017 🔫 Another bizarre state of affairs took place in the Oval Office in Dec. 1970: Out of concern for the country Presley wrote Nixon a letter suggesting he be appointed a Federal Agent at Large. Nixon granted Presley a badge. Presley gifted Nixon a pistol.

🪗 #handmadepapers

In 1946, following the horrors of WWII, a 13-year-old Ruth Bader wrote an op-ed piece for her school paper. In it, “she considered humanity’s path forward toward a safer, saner, more equitable world”. “Five Great Documents” 💛 on view at Alabama A&M March 7 — April 4 ALWCA + The Feminine

Shelbyville, TN

It’ll eat you up in the inside. #emmaloudailey at Lowe Mill

ice sheets and bubbles in the pool pond 🫧

Yesterday with Lou ❄️ #snowinsouthroebuck

Hello, Bluesky 🎡