The Foundry Needs Your Help! .....To Win $50k Grant from Pepsi Refresh Project

The Foundry for Art Design and Culture has applied for $50k from the Pepsi Refresh Project. Voting opened today and we are ranked 25th in the $50k category out of 204....not bad, but not good enough. They award only the top 10, so we desperately need your help.

We are asking our friends and supporters to vote once per day starting today through Feb 28 at http://www.refresheverything.com/thefoundry. We are listed in the $50k category. Our project is described on the Pepsi website, but I've included a video here that describes our idea. Your support is deeply appreciated. Please feel free to spread the word, and to stay in touch with us in the following locations:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cohoes-NY/The-Foundry-for-Art-Design-Culture/275357838222?ref=ts

http://twitter.com/thefoundrysite

Moving Along...

As you know, things have been changing for me.

I got a 4.0 this semester, five A s!! I am excited about my future for the first time in 20 years...

I am moving on....

My future blog posts will be HERE ... feel free to subscribe. I will be focusing alot more on art and how it affects our world and how our world affects art.

Feel free also to add me to your friends in Facebook. The badge on the right will take you there.

Peace and love to you all, I send you the most positive of energies.

Vicki Bower ~ Artist, Mother, Student, Protagonist!

Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship at HVCC

I won the Empire State Diversity Honors Scholarship and am grateful to the Hudson Valley Community College Foundation.

Thanks so much! I am proud to contribute to the diversity of our student body! :}

Come see me at The Hudson Valley Comm. College Teaching gallery this weekend!

Come see me!

I will be the resident "Gallerina" at the teaching gallery at Hudson Valley Community College this Saturday, Oct. 10th and in Troy, NY this Saturday, from 12 noon until 2 pm. Click HERE for directions.

Anyone within traveling distance, come see Jennnifer Dalton's thought-provoking exhibit and get a free bracelet, a piece of chocolate and a nice brand new scrumptious HVCC Teaching Gallery pencil!




I PROMISE this exhibit will be like none you've ever seen before, and best of all, it's FREE to SEE!!


I hope to see you there...

a dreary Summer day, LOL:

So today is the last day of July, 2009. I've walked 72 miles in ths actual month. 3 more to go... I'm all ready... I look outside and it's really coming down!

Ummm, I would like to walk today at some point without becoming a prune!

Day 2 - Albany Child Support

I'm not done running back and forth. They wanted his address. I gave a COUNTY ORGANIZATION the city and state and they said they couldn't serve him unless I had the zip!

THEY COULDN'T LOOK IT UP? If my phone had internet, I could've had it in two seconds....
I'm afraid this is going to be a lonnnng battle!

I might even be driving back there to sit amongst the wonderful achievers I was subject to be near yesterday. You see, there is also a Treatment court there, where drug addicted parents can get "help". There were alot of fidgety, snuffling, pajama-pants and wife beaters-with-sideways-hats wearing people there... it seemed there were alot more of them than parents who were there for a noble reason.

I even went so far as to find an aerial view of his house on Google Earth, they are getting a printout of it so they CAN'T mess it up!

Tomorrow all I am doing is painting and reading blogs allllllll darn day (not really, but that is my goal!)!

this weekend I will post Part 1 of your Albany Walk with Vicki :) . I have some cool pics for you!

BIG HUGs to you great people who have offered me commiseration and support... and I can't wait to sit and read blogs tomorrow morning... it's been almost a week. My Tweeter is getting rusty, too!

Seahorse Original Painting

A beautiful seahorse cavorts with an ethereal jellyfish in this one-of-a-kind original painting on repurposed furniture panel. Click on the picture for the listing on Etsy.com with more detailed pics.

The seahorse's fin and "mane" are a metallic copper that perfectly complement his many soft green hues framed against the azure of the ocean. Being this is made from a side panel of a cast-off dresser drawer, the dovetail at the top was perfect to suggest some choppy little waves at the water's surface. This is done in acrylics and sealed with a clear finish for durability. It is ready to be hung by a pretty royal blue satin ribbon that is double-affixed to the back.

This measures a little over 7 1/2 inches wide by 14 inches high and the wood is 1/4 of an inch thick. This ships Insured via Priority Mail with a Tracking number free of charge in the United States, and for a small fee elsewhere.

Something beautiful, that's all...

A picture I took up at Lake Ticonderoga last week....
That's all :) . Be good to yourselves.

Gardening... yummy, delicious DIRT!!!

I love to garden. It's probably because it is something I have complete control over. I love the smell of the different plants and the yummy, delicious, dirt. I love the coolness on my fingers. It's good for me, too... I need the activity.

Being that I live in the Northeast, sometimes it's difficult to figure out what to plant and when, especially if I'm looking for a harvest.

I found the most awesome page on Mother Earth News to show us what can be planted here in NY and to help me plan my planting for optimum rewards .