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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Sunday’s brand-new Portable Papermaking class was excellent, if small. I transported a setup that would allow everyone to work simultaneously to the shop, gave a presentation, went over the handouts I’d made, demonstrated the setup and processes, then turned people loose while I circulated, answering questions and advising. Everyone worked and experimented enthusiastically for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1781&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you aren&#8217;t sick of &#8216;Listen&#8217; images, the lovely Sarah Burt has put up a fine set of me working at  Women&#8217;s Studio Workshop on Flickr.
Here&#8217;s the set &#8211; or here&#8217;s the slideshow.
I honestly do not remember her shooting these, though she must have been right there! My only excuse (besides broken ears) is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1774&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So: There!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Listen, 2009, Melissa Jay Craig: 15 reconfigurable pieces,cast and hand-shaped abaca, this view approximately 12&#8242; x 12&#8242; x 2&#8243;
So, I&#8217;m just not a PR whiz. At all. For one thing, I got asked a million times this past weekend for for my card, and it simply didn&#8217;t occur to me till then that I&#8217;d neglected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1764&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Much More Than Respite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Openings and/or Artists’ Receptions are a fact of any artist’s life. They’re usually quite pleasant, though on rare occasions, I’ve had people wanting to argue about what they see (and, truth be told, I sometimes relish that, just for the atypical interaction). Generally, I need to take a lot of hearing breaks to rest my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1747&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Been Too Busy To Blahg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8221; I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.&#8221; - Molly Ivins

Make that select parts of Texas: San Antonio was as great this year as Austin was last year.  The class went stupendously well. People were working like mad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1720&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24 hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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Load car from storage space &#38; studio, drive to Vespine gallery, install 54 pieces, dinner w/ friends, drive home, pack, sleep 2 1/2 hours, airport, San Antonio, unpack, class prep, class prep, class prep, dinner w/ friend, sleeeeeep now.
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		<title>Are We Having Fun Yet?</title>
		<link>http://melissajaycraig.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/are-we-having-fun-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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I am, actually (having fun)&#8230;but am also assuredly feeling a wee bit zippy.  October&#8217;s quiet, contemplative, organizational energy has given way to full tilt full speed ahead.  I&#8217;ve been in the studio the past few days, tweaking the work for Respite&#8230;and, of course, that planned work time was interrupted by sudden, unforeseen bureaucratic needs that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1706&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Samhain, Samhuinn, Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s my new year&#8217;s eve.  Just getting dark here in Chicago, and a steady stream of kids (and one costumed Great Dane, who got a dog biscuit) have been coming to the door for awhile now. It&#8217;s cool and crisp, windy with scudding grey clouds and blowing brightly colored leaves: perfect.
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		<title>Watch it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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Abigail Uhteg was one of the two book residents at Women&#8217;s Studio Workshop while I was there; she and I shared the apartment above the studio building.  She was making a gorgeous edition of a book titled, &#8220;The Complex Of All Of These.&#8221; Fellow book resident Amanda Thackray named Abby the Studio Paparazzi, because she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1690&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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