@crystalmarie65.bsky.social is heading back to Kansas City for a 3-day workshop this June 5-7. Join us for Alchemy Cloth: Working with Textiles in Mixed Media Collage!! amandajolley.com/workshops/cr...

Slow 12x12 inch collage Hello 2026. I created this collage during the pandemic, a slow time, but am feeling that energy as I wade into 2026. This decade has undone me, chewed me up, and spit me out in a completely different form. And through it all, I am feeling the ability to step out again.

There aren't enough safeguards in the Constitution to protect against breathlessly stupid people...and the people who vote for them.

Right now ART is SALVATION. Upcoming workshops at my studio in Kansas City MO:
 March 22 - Intro to Encaustic March 23 - Intermediate Encaustic *Full* March 30 - Intermediate Encaustic May 2-4 - Art and Assemblage taught by the fabulous @crystalmarie65.bsky.social Links in bio.

Just saw three #ICE officers on Carnes and SW Blvd in #kansascity MO. Noon Wednesday Jan 29

Science proves that creating art, whether good or not, is an effective stress reliever. The impact on our brain is similar to meditating. So, I am shamelessly promoting my current workshop schedule. Find my 2025 live workshops and my recorded courses on my website: crystalneubauer.com/home.html

🎉We are pleased to announce, Queer Ecologies, a group exhibition opening February 8, 2025 at Purple Window Gallery in Chicago, IL. 🎉🎉 🌿🦎Queer Ecologies brings together ten Queer artists across the Midwest region thinking with ecological systems. (artists sourced from our open call). 🦎

List of Kansas City artists to help us find each other. Easily follow everyone on the list! Comment on SK Reed’s post to be added. go.bsky.app/5UP4Nv7

Birthright Citizen: Refugee 9" x 18" x 10" (approximate) Art + Assemblage Executive order on day one, ending birthright citizenship. The cruelty is the point. First up in my Threads of Connection collaboration series. #assemblage #assemblageart #mixedmediaart #art #artist

Announcing a new workshop offering at Studio Joy in Kansas City, MO! @crystalmarie65.bsky.social will be the first guest artist of 2025. Her 3-day Art and Assemblage workshop is coming up May 2-4, 2025. Check out the juicy details here: amandajolley.com/crystal-mari...

Time to clean the studio, so instead I’ll post some tessellation images from Madonna Yoder’s (Gathering Folds) Advent of Tessellations daily teaching in December. I folded all the tessellations on encaustic monotypes, my favorite tessellation folding material. #tessellations #origami

The latest post on my blog is about my 2025 words of the year, Connection, Community, and Collaboration. Read the full post here: crystalmarie.substack.com/p/checking-i... #art #artists #community #connection #collaboration #artistscommunity

Hey artists, what trends or patterns have you noticed emerging in post-pandemic culture that affect your practice or livelihood?

I find it so absolutely fun to be included at the Small Works Art Gallery in a juried group exhibition in tandem with the MdW Summit. Nov 17 - Dec 15, 2024 featuring: Amanda Jolley Craig Auge Crystal Marie Melissa Donoho Tanith K More info: www.smallworksartgallerykc.com/exhibitions....

My friend could use a hand. Chip in if you can.

The studio workshops open back up in 2025. Got back to back intro and intermediate encaustic workshops in March. (Location = heart of Kansas City MO) Check it: amandajolley.com/workshops/

Love the layers in Rebecca’s work. 😍

The newest series of works on paper is coming along.

a major problem with bluesky is that i can offhandedly remark "i hate drawing, its too hard" and then a sweet old lady will gently encourage me and kindly point me to some useful resources to get started drawing and i dont know what to do with myself

@crystalmarie65.bsky.social inspired me to revamp my studio space after adjusting hers. @skyfox65.bsky.social built some shelves to help me reduce the table clutter. And (miracle) I dusted. The studio now officially has FLOW!

I like to say "I'm just not a morning person" as if afternoon and evening me are any easier to be around

All you entrepreneurs, if you operate under an LLC, you are required to fill out a Beneficial Ownership Report by the end of the year or steep fines. Use the website, boiefiling.fincen.gov, to file for free. There are predatory websites that will charge several hundred dollars to file for you.