Have you heard what the Missouri Fiber Artists are doing this year & clear into the next year?
An "Sketchbook Challenge"!!!

View the website for details, based on the first book of the same name.  (I'm going slow on this, but I'm included on the list of artists who are working on this project with "MoFA").

http://www.missourifiberartists.com/sketchbook.htm

Join them on FaceBook as well...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Missouri-Fiber-Artists-MoFA/136951573773

SNEAK PEEK!!!  Really...
30th Annual Weavers' Guild Sale in St. Louis, MO.
Check out their FaceBook page....

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.461035767270489.102272.416052095102190&type=1

New Website for Maryann Hammond

It took a long time, but I finally created a website for myself at: http://wildpatternsbymaryannhammond.webs.com/

Please send in comments at:  maryann4art@hotmail.com

*Even if you have your own Website, have you tried to use more "Social Media" to get more traffic to your "Art Work"?  Here are ( 4 ) sites that are free to use & can get you noticed on the web a whole lot more.  If you have not tried any of them, please take a look at what I had created, then go from there...
1.  tumblr:   http://www.tumblr.com/blog/fibermaryannart

2.  Artists2artists:  http://www.artists2artists.net/photo/36-inch-silk-hand-dye-silk-screen-turq?commentId=3077055%3AComment%3A142162&xg_source=msg_com_photo

3.  Pinterest:  Create your own board of your own art work...  http://pinterest.com/blueartist/

4. LinkedIn:  Place your resume' on this networking site...

 © Hammond, Maryann* "Glitter Dragon Flower"Gouache on watercolor paper, shown June 2012  At Art takes Times Square, NYC     

                                         

*All of this can help if you are not doing a whole lot of work or you if you have so much you could fill a huge gallery, with more to show.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY (for this post)!  It is 103.8 on this side of the state and about that much on the other side of Missouri.

     We have news of a member in SDA & MoFA (Rosemary Claus-Gray), who will have a show open on Friday (First Friday's) 6-JULY-2012 at the Randy Bacon Photograph Studio & Gallery Springfield, Missouri.  Ending 21-JULY-2012.  Here is the link:  http://woodhavenstudio.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/expressions-in-fiber-at-randy-bacon-photography-studio-and-gallery-springfield-missouri-through-july-31-2012/

And here is a link to Rosemary Claus-Gray's website for you to visit, if you can not make it to her show.
http://www.rosemaryclaus-gray.com/bio.htm

                                                    Rosemary Claus-Gray - Fractured
                                                           Congrats to Rosemary....
UPDATE:  08-JULY-2012, I was sent a publication wrote about Rosemary's show at:

http://pamdora.com/blog/2012/07/08/expressions-in-fiber-by-rosemary- 
claus-gray-at-monarch-art-factory/

Have you read the news that came out today about "Created Jobs for Artists"?
Take the time to read this and also as always read up on what is going on within the whole of SDA by clicking on the links for SDA.
Reminder, have you updated yourself on the main SDA website.  There are so many blank pictures of us or your artwork.   As for myself, I never have had a good picture taken of me anywhere, but I did updated my information.
Enjoy the article below...
Thanks Maryann...


http://artsusa.org/information_services/research/services/economic_impact/default.asp

Live photo showing art work of Maryann Hammond* 

On Times Square NYC

I am excited about this "Artists Wanted" in NYC contest.  I wish I had known early about it, but I will be sure to contact all of you about this contest to show your ART in Times Square next year.  So be ready get on the list to show.  It is Free to join, no fees if you have plenty of people to Vote for you.  Here is what my link looks like.  (Twitter & amp; Face book)

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#ArtTakesTimesSquare @ArtistsWanted - help my work get shown http://MaryannHammond.artistswanted.org/atts2012
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By Maryann Hammond*

Glitter Dragon Flower

UPDATE:  My few seconds of fame came on the night of 18-JUNE-2012, where my art work that "Artists Wanted" chose to be shown on Times Square outside the NASDAQ, then again within the VIP party on screens shown on the wall where another stage was set up.  Thanks to Harold Garcia who took photo's when they found out the website to view the show went down.  More people (artists/public) had shown up than they were able to handle...  Mine is on the right, called "Glitter Dragon Flower"!