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* birds & women * a calendar for 2015 *

By mieladmin / On November 9, 2014 / In Objects, Print

Our 2015 calendar is in the shop now. It’s called birds & women, and it contains lots of kind of magical images, all reproduced from original watercolors and drawings.

There’s the birdwoman, of course, and Sailor Moon; there’s a blue-and-white tea set and pink wagashi. There is another tea set and a bunch of smoggy animals to keep the tea-drinkers company. There are girls in pretty clothes, a garden gnome, and some strange rabbits.

Every calendar comes wrapped in a slip of paper with a little watercolor birds and women miel calendar reproduction on it, tucked into a cellophane envelope, and mailed in a bubble envelope. We’re in the habit of putting a little extra surprise in the envelope with these, too.

Making the drawings for this calendar was really a pleasure—I hope they make you happy when they hang in your house!

Quilts

By mieladmin / On October 22, 2014 / In may we suggest?, Objects

When Dickinson House became a possibility, not just a dream, one of the first things I knew was that it would need quilts. I have so many friends who make quilts; my mother makes quilts. Quilts and blankets mean cosiness, warmth, care, and beauty all in one object. And the house does have quilts—this one by Blair Stocker, for example, who traded it to me for editing, and one made by my friend Melissa (in the photograph below), and another made by Neele Dellschaft, whose chapbook was one of the first three MIEL published. Writers and artists, come and be warm under these quilts! Come and feel the work their makers put into them to give you comfort!

A visit to Katy Fischer’s studio

By mieladmin / On August 21, 2014 / In may we suggest?, Objects

Katy Fischer. I met her at the Vermont Studio Center this June. Her work is alphabets, syntax, air, light, color, small fields. She had a table full of ceramic fragments. In the hottest days, at the beginning of July, the kiln was running all the time. She kept her red door open. You could walk by and see her [letters/flags/fields/objects/—] there, repeating themselves and configuring themselves. I can’t deny that something about the way I played with a dollhouse as a child is part of what drew m to Katie’s work: my best toys were the ones I made myself, to approximate real things, while always retaining the offness and madeness of the toy made by the child who plays with it. So inspiring to get to talk with Katie about fragmentation and accumulation and big projects made of small objects.

M I E L

Category: Objects

* birds & women * a calendar for 2015 *

Quilts

A visit to Katy Fischer’s studio