Beautiful sculpture which is Also a Working sundial to be unveiled in Ohio

The unveiling and dedication of the Richard Pirko memorial sundial will be Thursday August 26, at 1:30pm, outside the Ward-Beecher Planetarium, Youngstown University, Youngstown Ohio 44555 (weather permitting -- in case of bad weather we will hold it indoors in the Planetarium).

It should be a short ceremony.  Tony Armeni (the sculptor) will be there.  The Dean is invited, but his schedule is in flux, and may not be able to make it. The President and the Provost are also invited. Those saying a few words will include Victoria (Rick's wife), Angela Pupino, Pat Durrell and Warren Young at this point. Ron Cole (YSU media person) will be there, and with Warren's help will be writing up a press release for the event.

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Planetarium is in Ward Beecher Science Hall - Building #14, Lincoln Avenue, Youngstown OH 44555
street map for planetarium

and there is a Facebook Public Event Page for the 26th where one may comment or RSVP at:

Richard Pirko Memorial Sundial Dedication

Rick's Great Big Space sharing space blog: http://thanksrick.blogspot.com/
with photos of sundial and anything Rick

Art's wonderful widgets

The folks at Fine Art America wrote 2 pleasing widgets for sharing our available artworks - ( - stay tuned, there's quite a few I need to upload yet - ) - here is the non - flash slide show-er thingamabob:




and here is the slick facebook fully functioning doodad (on my artist {Fan}Page).

Read books about the art of collecting art

Calibrating sadness

Identifying grey treefrogs and writing about art and Mason jars,
pumpkin lilies and sundial calibration: sadness writ in stone and steel and pointing at the sky...3 little boys bouncing their balls thinking it will be different. It won't. Limbs so dark, moon so bright.

A memorial for a friend is almost complete, it is an amazing piece of artwork:

There's more about Richard and the sculptor, Tony Armeni, here: Great Big Space

Storybook Cabin

Stay down the road at the Storybook Cabin within walking distance and come visit me and my artwork in finished and in-progress stages. They provide a very good value. There's several picturesque cabins nearby:

Stray mom-cat was raising 3 more kittens in the shed for about the sixth season, but has disappeared as she's wont to do; someday we will trap her for a trip to the vet.

canoe trail guides in Pennsylvania

Saturday in April

My voice my house frogs' song in the night breathing warm and moist

the price of shipping it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, we shall
all shape art with our hands and place in the main street gallery for both the boys holding bullets in their hands and Allison and her kith fallen all on the cold hard ground.

By the big bridge she makes words to paint the body of war crying out for violence. Of heart.

My high school literature teacher writes to me.
Drying off a cat full of rain on a Saturday in April.

Don't drink and draw...

                                             Crave Cafe created & constructed by artists Peter Jon Snyder & Corey A. Wise                                            

The hand electric

Drawing with hand electric:

OdoSketch from Odopod, try one yourself at http://sketch.odopod.com/

Sometimes loading slow but one can watch the best sketches being drawn before your eyes at http://sketch.odopod.com/pages/slideshow

"That's just the way it is..."

correction, quote should be: "...that's just the way things go."



Former silk factory will host group art exhibition, "Escape From New York," it will be held in the Fabricolor Building on Van Houten Street in Paterson, New Jersey, on May 15, 2010. With President Obama's August 2009 declaration of the Great Falls Historic Disctrict as a National Park, the city of Paterson, and its multiple warehouses and former factories are poised to become a destination to be reckoned with. Included will be Vicki DaSilva - http://www.vickidasilva.com
See other 20 artists here at: Kickstarter page

Warm Wall

South Dakota Wall agate
bound with silver
girlscout cookies in green and blue boxes
green and white light the equinox vernal
warm and furry
feed the ongoing flame

food on plates.