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Maria Arango's
QUEST: 1,000 Woodcuts
April 2005 Update -  219 completed
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Hello dear friends!

Just about done with the spring season! And what a spring it has been, rain and wind for the first two months caused me to question my sanity once more. But I endured and the rains also gave the Southwest the most spectacular flower season I remember. You better believe it there are flowery colorful woodcuts in the making...meantime, check my new photo albums with gorgeous flowers and other adventures.

The Governor's Awards Conference was fun to attend (even though I skipped the second day; wasn't my fault, Lake Tahoe was calling me). In case you missed it, the pieces are all finished and the project completed. Sigh.
http://1000woodcuts.com/gaac/projectdiary.html

More exciting news for the year: I'm going to be on TV!
The Home & Garden Television Network (HGTV) has a show called Crafters Coast to Coast and they came "casting" to Las Vegas. I raised my hand! So they will be filming the making of a puzzle woodcut in mid May and I will announce when the show will air just as soon as I know. Should be fun because they want entertaining crafters so I get to act pretty goofy (that is, act naturally).

If you are in Las Vegas, don't forget the one-woman show in the summer; details will appear in my exhibits page just as soon as I know more.

As always, you can peruse the latest works here:
http://www.1000woodcuts.com/1000woodcuts/1000.html

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Thoughts and ramblings:

A little story from my most recent festival, have hanky handy!

Whilst sitting in the awesome shade of my booth in a perfect spring day, I had the immense pleasure of meeting a young budding artist, a freshman in high-school this year, who came by and just fell in love with my prints. He browsed and browsed and we talked about art and such things. After a while he left and promptly returned with an awesome print of one of his drawings and showed me proudly (shown left, Star Keeper by Daniel Jimenez). I asked him if he wanted to trade something for it and his eyes lit up. He searched and found something and asked me if that was okay and we traded. He literally ran out of my booth, came back to thank me twice, came back with a friend to shake my hand, came back and gave me a set of watercolor cards he had made and told me that the trade had meant a lot to him. To me as well.

Way too cute. I told him to keep in touch and he said: "Oh I will!". Sniff...man, the rewards of some of those festivals go beyond words.

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There are a couple of new entries in my diary, all about rainbows and secret places:
http://www.1000woodcuts.com/1000woodcuts/diary.html

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The summer schedule is settled (I thought I had a light summer? I need an assistant!)
Schedule of Festivals for Summer of 2005:

Last Spring Festival! May 7 & 8 - ArtFest of Henderson
Downtown Henderson on Water Street, Henderson, NEVADA

June
4 & 5 - ArtWalk '05 - The Conejo Valley Art Museum
The Oaks Mall E Lot (off US 101, between Hillcrest & Thousand Oaks Blvd)
Thousand Oaks CALIFORNIA

(on the dreaded waiting list - tentative) 23-26 - 29th Annual Utah Arts Festival
Downtown, Salt Lake City UTAH

July
9 & 10- Lake Tahoe Festival of Fine Arts
South Lake Tahoe CALIFORNIA (at NEVADA border)

29-31 - SUMMERFEST Flagstaff Festival in the Pines
Presented by The Events Group, Inc
Ft. Tuthill Fairgrounds - Flagstaff ARIZONA

August
5, 6 & 7 - 36th Annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival
Park City Historic Main Street - Park City UTAH
www.kimball-art.org

September
3, 4 & 5 - Kings Mountain Art Fair
Skyline Blvd - Kings Mountain - Woodside CALIFORNIA
www.kingsmountainartfair.org

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Quotes of the Day

"One of these days is none of these days."
--H. G. Bohn

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."
--Anon.

Thanks for listening,
Maria

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Maria Arango, Printmaker
Las Vegas  Nevada  USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
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