Art Festival Season
Well hello!
Happening now.
Someone hand me another cup of coffee please. It’s officially art festival season and I am super focused on finishing up my newest collection of work so that you can see their debut at the Sugar Land Art Fest 2024!
The festival dates are Saturday, April 27th and Sunday, April 28th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Smart Financial Centre Plaza! There will be over 100 artist booths, live music, beer + wine gardens and a great selection of food from local restaurants like Fish City Grill, Williams Smokehouse BBQ, and Saucy on the Fly. Parking is free! Get your tickets here: www.sugarlandartsfest.com/tickets.
I would love to say hello to you in person! I don’t have my booth number or location yet but I will post it as soon as I know on my instagram account, @carlottabaird_
Inspiring me.
The change in seasons is inspiring me. I’m not saying, ‘Oh, I’m so glad winter is over!’ or, ‘I’m so glad it’s finally spring!’ What has captured my attention is the space in-between. The retreat of winter and the emerging spring, in process at the same time. The contrasts and the sameness.
My friends know that winter was an intense season of life for me. I kept things simple and pared down during the holidays because that helped me feel more peaceful. It looks like that is going to be my status for a while. So on a personal level I am also existing in a space in-between. I have a lot more inner work to do and am not quite ready for the old season to end and a new one to begin. It’s not time to wrap anything up, even as mother nature is ready to move on. And I think this is reflected in my art.
In my newest work, I found myself exploring so many contrasts: constructed and organic shapes, the corseted and the undone, defined and blurry, the flat shape against the dimensional. I’m celebrating the ordered with the messy, the harmonized and the clashing, the inspired and the labored, the clean line and the rubbed-rough surface. I wanted to show how these contrasts could live together in a space and see my human hand in all of it.
And I can’t wait to share it with you.
Keeping them fed.
Ok. So you know I’d rather be painting, but my people still have to eat. With the art festival coming up, I am saving all my energy for the studio and looking for all the ways to cheat in the kitchen. Here’s what I’m doing this week:
Monday: steaks (on the stove with a cast iron pan) + parmesan crusted green beans pre-made by HEB.
Tuesday: chili (that I froze from a big batch a couple months ago) + fritos + cheese
Wednesday: chicken cordon bleu (frozen from Sam’s) + steamed broccoli + Bob Evans mashed potatoes
Thursday: chicken fajitas (meat premade from HEB) + Zatarans dirty rice
Friday: left overs /cereal /frozen waffles
Saturday + Sunday: chips and salsa + Easter candy + we will figure it out + no one will die.
I'm so glad you’re here.❤️