I will teach a three-day workshop at the Wescott Bay Institute in Friday Harbor, Washington, on San Juan Island July 11-13. This workshop will be outdoors in a pavilion in a lovely sculpture park.

The photo to the left is of me and my students at a workshop I taught at Shipwreck Beads in April. These workshops are three-day intensives.  After the workshop we disperse to continue working on our beaded hands for two months. We then get back together to share our completed projects. The photo to the right is of the hand I'm working on. It's going to be called "Arthritis" because I was recently diagnosed with arthritis in the thumb joint of my right hand.

Until June 3, Museo Gallery in Langley on Whidbey Island, Washington, is having a group show of Northwest Designer Craftsmen (NWDC), of which I'm proud to be a member. I have a felt-beaded teapot in this exhibit.

Some members of NWDC, including myself, have been juried into an exhibition called "High Tech/Low Tech" at the Oregon College of Art & Craft July 3 to August 28, 2008. Artists were asked to provide work that explores the relationship between high technology and low technology in the production of fine craft. I struggled with this, as my work is all "low tech." I ultimately manipulated a photograph to create a petroglyph of a crow. The modified photograph is below.

During the 2008 Greenwood ArtWalk on May 9 and 10 I was a demonstrating artist in a neighborhood business as the ArtWalkers looked on and asked questions about my art. I live in the Greenwood neighborhood, and enjoy this opportunity to mingle with my neighbors. I posted a piece about my experience in the Phinney Neighborhood Association's blog.

From November 13 to December 31 this year I will have an exhibit at the Moses Lake Museum and Art Center in Moses Lake, Washington. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to show a large selection of my recent and historic work in one place, including older work that is based on Columbia Basin petroglyphs and pictographs. It means a great deal to me to have a show in Central Washington, which has so influenced my art. For this exhibit, I will be giving a lecture and am hoping to teach a workshop.

Trans Artists asked if they could use the story of my residency on their Web site. They called it "Struck by Calm". Trans Artists "is an independent foundation that informs artists of any discipline about international artist-in-residence programs and other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'" (from their Web site).

Last year a friend found a news article about "Google twins", of which I am one. The article specifically called out my Web page and defined me as a "a limelight-stealing, attention-hogging, clearly overachieving Rebecca Roush...".       Ouch.

While this last item is "old" news, I believe it is still significant. My residency at the Montana Artist Refuge in May 2005 allowed me to focus exclusively on my art for four continuous weeks. The experience was unprecedented for me and continues to shape my life and art every day.

Finally, Bradford Bohonus of VR Seattle shot a VR (360 degree virtual reality photography) movie of my studio. Bradford's web site is one of the largest, most comprehensive, QuickTime VR tours in the world of a single city and includes the studios of many local artists.

Last updated May 25, 2008