Photography by Alex Sablin

It’s always fun to read what visitors or photographers think of our village, and of course to have what we do be part of their happy experience is the joy of why we do it. Photographer Alex Sablin  (here is his facebook page) took some fabulous photographs of town, including some our work from Peeps in the Park and Nancy’s Gargoyle Lion. Just want to share also a thank you to Alex for sharing our links with his readers, really appreciate the shout out.

Note:  “The yarnbombing I think is one of my favorite things in Yellow Springs! It’s just so fun and random.”  DangerousBiz wrote this comment last year in her article about A Day in Yellow Springs and I  this cartoon drawing and comment my Gillian Gabriel from her article about Yellow Springs made me giggle .

Meanwhile in  Jafagirl News

Nancy will be part of the Yellow Springs Arts Council  Public Arts Interactive Forum panel discussion titled Arts in the Public Eye:  Village Perspectives, you can see details about it on their website.

M is for Marmite and I am chuffed as punch to say that my marmite shrine

has been included in the newly released second edition of  the Mish Mash Dictionary of Marmite.

More about Marmighty Stuff here.

Stitched Art at the Little Art

That is the Little Art Theatre  lobby in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Most of the work was in my Stitch Gasp! exhibit but this one below is new and is a stitched photograph. Not a new concept, as there are many who do it, such as Maurizio Anzeri (got to see his exhibit at the Baltic in Gateshead-wow), Jessica Wohl, and the fabulous Inge Jacobsen.

Muy Cottage fb has a link to a site that offers a drawing with stitch challenge  some of you might be interested in.

Anyway, I wanted to explore the idea of taking a photograph of a vintage embroidery transfer from the 40′s or 50′s,  add a bit tie dye using adobe, and then hand embroidery it.  The comment is by Rush L, a view that was prevalent BACK in the 50′s, yet is being regurgitated in 2012, arg!  I crossed the quite well for obvious reasons. He is the one that coined the term feminazi, a propaganda technique of guilt by association – Reductio ad Hitlerum . Name calling and demonization seems par for the course with feminists being accused as  filthy, hairy, smelly hippies and  feminazi’s, just to name a few,  phew! I have never met one, but then I have never met a pig that fly’s either

Jafabrit’s Embroidery 

Knots on the Lawn by Mill’s Lawn Students

Can I just say that the Jafagirls are chuffed as mintballs, happy as larks, and LOVE the textile tree the students did in front of their school. There I said it.

Thank You.

Urban Design: Public Art was one of 6 classes offered this spring in the After School Enrichment Program at Mills Lawn School in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Taught by Deb Housh, this class toured art sites in Yellow Springs such as Keith’s Alley, Dayton St. Art Park, and the YS Train Station. Students were particularly interested in the “textile totems” on Dayton Street made by JafaGirls Corrine Bayraktaroglu and Nancy Mellon. The students emulated their work with their own public art piece entitled “Knots on the Lawn”, which can be seen in front of Mills Lawn through June.