Airen Hall

without a ladder studio Upcoming Winter Markets Nov 13-15: Strathmore Museums & Makers Nov 16: WCCC Artisan Market Nov 22: CCUMC Holiday Bazaar Dec 13: Van Ness Main Street Holiday Pop-up

DETAILS Nov 13-15: Strathmore Museums & Makers 10am-6pm daily The Mansion at Strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 Nov 16: WCCC Artisan Market 11am-5pm Women's Club of Chevy Chase 7931 Connectivut Ave, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Nov 22: CCUMC Holiday Bazaar 9am-2pm Chevy Chase United Methodist Church 7001 Connectivut Ave, Chevy Chase MD Dec 6-7: Greenbelt Sparkle Mart Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 10am-4pm Greenbelt Community Center 15 Crescent Rd. Greenbelt MD Dec 13 Van Ness Main Street Holiday Pop-up 10am-3pm 4340 Connecticut Ave, DC (INDOORS)

Heading into a busy holiday market season with five markets coming up. If you're in the DMV, hope to see you at one of them!

YouTube video by Positively Osceola Daylight Saving Spring Forward

My favorite #DaylightSavingTime trailer ever.

youtu.be/uh5aN83Q8Sw

#Uplift

😄

Yeah, it's a different type of pacing and storytelling. The mystery isn't "who did it?" but "how will Columbo get the murderer to make a mistake?" I hope you convince your kids! 😄

Many things are being destroyed & the news of it is a psychological & political onslaught.

So it’s important that you create things.

It can be art, cookies, a community pantry, a garden, a mask bloc. It can be beautiful, practical, silly. Just create & share.

It’ll do your brain & the world good.

Photo showing numerous potted plants made of collaged paper.

Another photo showing different angle of collaged paper potted plants.

Here are some tiny paper plants I was working with this week. #paperart

Amen. I myself have been marathoning Columbo the last couple weeks as I work, and it has truly been a balm.

Really excellent piece on AI.

Love this.

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

Boromir falls for the power of the ring not because he likes Sauron, but because Boromir cannot imagine overthrowing the dark lord other than by force. He fundamentally doesn’t understand the nature of Sauron’s or the ring’s power, so he tries to take it and become a great captain of war.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

Ugh. Sooo disappointing to see my rep @raskin.house.gov voted yes on this.

Hey #kidlit illustrators!

We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore.

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions

And that's just from the Pragmatist side, just WAIT until I bust out the Confucian and classical Japanese aesthetics, both of which argue that damaging our ability to appreciate art is to damage our very humanity, our ability to HAVE experience.

No but actually, art enables us to share experience across difference. Indeed, there are some things that are best communicated through art and any situation that damages our ability to appreciate art damages our ability to communicate across difference.

Photograph of outdoor market booth set-up. Tables with displays and hanging art.

In DC? Stop by the Van Ness Main Street pop-up market today! I'll be here until 3.

"A couple hundred dollars to a working artist could make a difference" is so, so true. An unexpected boon of a couple hundred would be the difference between paying off bills, and stopping the cycle of transferring credit card balances from whichever card is offering no interest to another.

This.

Got my flu and covid vaccines this morning! I know I'm lucky to be in MD and have fairly easy access to both vaccines. Please get yourself and your family vaccinated if you're able to do so. It's such a simple way to protect yourself and your community.

Cut paper collage illustration shows a woman standing on rocks pointing out to a ship sailing in the distance. Superimposed over the image is the artist's contact information: Airen Hall, @withoutaladder on BlueSky and Instagram, www.withoutaladder.com

Happy #kidlitartpostcard for September! I create collaged illustrations using paper I paint and cut by hand. Looking for representation and interested in PBs and covers.

www.withoutaladder.com

Cut paper collage illustration shows a woman standing on rocks pointing out to a ship sailing in the distance. Superimposed over the image is the artist's contact information: Airen Hall, @withoutaladder on BlueSky and Instagram, www.withoutaladder.com

Happy #kidlitartpostcard for September! I create collaged illustrations using paper I paint and cut by hand. Looking for representation and interested in PBs and covers.

www.withoutaladder.com

Amen

Molly Ivins, dressed in a sort of satin blouse with a neckthing that I'm going to call a scarf?. She's smiling with every cell in her body. Beaming radiantly the joy of being righteous and kind at the same time. Her eyes closed almost to a squint, and every pearly white on display. Gods bless you, Molly, you were a hell of a person.

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

Reading is Resistance.
Knowledge is Power.

Read with your kids.
Read with your spouse or partner.
Read with your friends.
Read with your classmates

Join a book club.
Form a book club.

Resist this vile, fascist regime.
Resist these monstrous evildoers

Reading is Resistance.
Knowledge is Power.

Your weekly roundup of ways to get involved in D.C. How to fight back this month.

Know-your-rights trainings, cop watching, and more taking place over the upcoming weeks. 51st.news/making-some-...

Thanks for your kind words, Brian.

Photo of a paper collage in progress. There is a brown tree trunk with a pile of tiny green leaves and a pink pair of tweezers.

Ugh, I've been so awful at posting anything lately. It's been a weird summer and a tough year. But here's a tree I'm working on today....all those tiny leaves are very soothing for me. And, yes, I cut them all out by hand. 😄

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this