Valerie Mann

Glamping rent

Interior of glamping tent with rug and beds

Praying mantis

Wildflowers in field with blue sky

The glamping situation here at Apple Blossom Farm and the Seedkeepers' artist residency I'm doing for a couple of weeks on Beaver Island. Some of the fauna and flora, too....finished paintings to be posted tomorrow!

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Last weekend's little plot hound/grand pup watercolor.

Just like last time....

They are afraid to travel abroad. That’s what happens when one operates from a place of fear.

Good god, it was in the news for 2+weeks. I guess in addition to not cracking a book, they're not watching reputable news sources....wait, of course they're not....

Day 1 of install @indyartcenter ....so lucky to have great friends who are game for installing art around the Midwest with me! @indyartcenter #midwestartist #michiganartist #contemporarysculptures #fiberartist #fiberart #sculpture #repurposedart #universityofillinois #michiganstate #womanartist

4 versions of the same landscape. Begin as a demo for my students a month ago, saved from the graveyard of unfinished paintings today.

Today is the last day at our studio sale - so many talented folks all together with beautiful things! Mother's Day, Father's Day, Get Yourself a Little Something Day and Support Your Local Artist Day are all coming up! (So I made those last 2 up, but they SHOULD be a thing!)

A show I'm in at the end of the month....our first show together was the day before the world shut down, 2020.

Minneolas, for the #orange prompt today. This is a gouache on illustration board painting. #contemporarypainting #contemporarystilllife

This is great!

Reinstalled my first alphabet art piece at the newly-renovated Saline District Library yesterday, with the friend who first helped me install it 20-some years ago! I picked it up last June as they were starting renovations, cleaned and cleaned it, conserved a few letters and she was RTG! #alphabet

Mediocre people in every way with power granted to them

Wait....is he not as rich as he says he is either?

Today in US History: On Mar. 21, 1947 "in response to fears and Congressional investigations into communism in the US, President Harry S. Truman issues an executive decree establishing a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees." Trump is purging workers & trying to erase people of color.

Again, thank you for sharing.

Did he get rejected there as a student applicant once?

#makersmARTch this piece 'Unburdened', is another new piece in my current show at WSG Gallery. Again, made from all repurposed materials, this wall sculpture is going home with its collector at the end of the show! #birdart #wallsculpture #michiganartist #womanartist #repurposed

So evil....

Another of my wall sculptures in my new show at WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor...this is called Fissure, made from repurposed materials, except the nails. I make sculpture that creates dynamic shadows against the wall. I think of these shadows is drawings that happened because of the light interaction.

Yay! Happy for any good news!

Another new piece in my show, opening Friday at WSG Gallery, Ann Arbor. This one is called 'The Weight of It All'. Totally repurposed materials. Measures 23 x 32x 11".

american woodcock injured from hitting window in chicago the other woodcock died

‼️Attention: Chicago‼️
American Woodcocks & other migratory birds are hitting windows & dying-these deaths are preventable!

Turn out lights 11PM-6AM to save bird lives & make windows bird safe flap.org

if dead or injured bird found call birdmonitors.net

Whoa!

The world needs this....well, maybe just the US.....

#SelfPortraitSunday from the other day, building my 'yet to be finished' wall sculpture called 'A Little Communication Goes A Long Way'. Show opens Wednesday at noon, WSG Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI!

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Love the abstract-ness of the negative space!

This is fucked up