LightArted laurie and jeffrey childres

05/01/2022

A big thanks to the good folks who found their way to my booth today at Art in the Park. The conversations were uplifting and your smiles and wonder made it all perfection. I truly appreciate your appreciation of my art.

04/24/2022

Trickery, trickery, trickery.

While animals’ evolutionary techniques are frequently out of the ordinary, certain spiders take it to a whole new level. Spiders have developed in such a manner that they may acquire features that help them hunt while also allowing them to escape being preyed upon. When we examine different spider...

04/04/2022

And just like that...
"Leo" has a new home!
He was happy to be part of The Women's Resource Center Art in the Park Auction!

Please join me and the rest of the bug brood at ART in the Park on Saturday, April 30th at the Sally Fox Arboretum from 10-2.

12/04/2021

🕷️ Also, male peacock spiders perform a colorful song and dance nearly unrivaled in the animal kingdom. But a study shows that their main audience—the females they aim to woo—don’t impress so easily. ⁠
When a male peacock spider thinks he has spotted a female, “the world pretty much disappears,” says Michael Kasumovic of Australia’s University of New South Wales, one of the study’s co-authors. The spider then begins a series of dances—including moves scientists have dubbed the “rumble-rump” and “grind-rev”—that send literal good vibrations through the ground toward the female.⁠
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Once he has piqued her interest, the male unfolds a brilliantly colored abdominal flap and then struts back and forth, all the while frantically waving specially colored lengthy legs.⁠
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💃 Females don’t automatically swoon to the males’ advances, instead turning toward or away from them during their initial vibrations, based on interest. Some females also had more aggressive responses, rebuffing males with quick shakes of their abdomens—or worse. If females don’t like a male, they’ll eat them.⁠
The females liked only 16 of the 64 courtship dances. ⁠
Oh and, males’ looks are about twice as important as their dance moves, though each plays a slightly different role in piquing and retaining a female’s interest.⁠

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/151201-australia-peacock-spider-colorful-courtship-sex-animals-science

09/24/2021

Rehomed Faye this evening with a very nice lady. Yay!

09/21/2021

I'm baaaaack! The Downtown Art Crawl got my bug juices flowing again so here's an update on my available horde. If you are interested in owning one or two of my shiny tiny assemblages, just shoot me a message here and we'll get you fixed up. Thanks so much for your interest in my art project!

09/16/2021

I appreciate the thoughtful consideration for the common good. Stay well so you can come see us in May!

Both the Downtown Newton Development Association (DNDA) and Hickory Museum of Art look forward to hosting these amazing folk artists at our rescheduled Foothills Folk Art Festival on May 14, 2022.

In the meantime, there's still plenty of folk art to see at HMA with its upcoming “Fall into Folk” take-over of all three floors of the museum starting October 2! Exhibitions include "The Improvisational Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter"; "collectHMA: Recent Gifts from Albert Keiser, Jr". which includes Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Minnie Evans, Thornton Dial and more; "collectHMA: Collection Doppelgängers" featuring Linda Anderson, Reverend McKendree Long, Gerald Lee Nees and more; Minnie Reinhardt paintings from the Satterwhite collection; and HMA’s ongoing exhibition "Discover Folk Art: Unique Visions by Southern Contemporary Folk Artists".

09/11/2021

Thanks to Jan Hager for inviting us to set up outside the Girl Scout Office on Union Square!

09/11/2021

Beadles on parade at the Downtown Art Crawl. It was a good way to dip my toe back in the pond. Thanks to everyone who came by to share the love with us. It was just wonderful seeing so many masked smiles and catching up with our friends!