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Interview with Lauren Moyer

I’m very happy that we got the chance to interview Lauren Moyer, who is a painter and illustrator who graduated from CCS. Her latest work is going to be part of a two person show at Starkweather along with Anna Cangialosi. The opening is tomorrow, September 3rd, from 6-8 pm.

Lauren was kind enough to take some time apart from getting ready to tell us about how she fell in love with painting, her travels to Alaska, and what’s next for her. She was also kind enough to include a sneak preview of her newest paintings and screenprints that will be in the show. The interview and lots of pictures are behind the cut.

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Our Brand New Etsy Shop!

Happy September! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at the People’s Arts Festival this weekend. Dennis took a whole bunch of pictures, and a recap is coming soon. In the meantime, we’re happy to announce that all of our products are finally available online in our new Etsy shop!

For the first week our shop is open, we’re offering 20% off of the print of your choice. If you see something you like, don’t wait, because our inventory is pretty low now that summer craft fair season is over. We only have single digits left in Octotree, Moth, Clara, Tea Leaves, and Unrequited Love.

Thanks very much to K. Redmond Photography for taking all of the pictures you see above, as well as many more in our shop.

Get a Clue Design

I really like the gig posters from North Carolina’s Get A Clue Design. Founded in 2003, Get a Clue Design consists of Matt Pfahlert and his wife. They run their studio out of the upper floor of their home. Photos of which can be seen at This Ain’t No Disco.

As for their philosophy as stated in their Communication Arts profile: “Taking that leap is totally worth it—even if you twist your ankle.” Awesome!

Chad Davis

I had the pleasuree of meeting Garden City’s Chad Davis this past weekend at the People’s Art Festival. Chad was exhibiting his found wood sculptures along with his acrylic transfer mixed media pieces. Both of which are excellent. I was impressed with how clean his work was, and at first glance I thought that they were silkscreen. Much more of his work can be viewed in his Flickr Photostream.

Hole In the Earth
Mixed Media Collage

It’s All In Your Head
Mixed Media Collage

Acrylic Transfers on Wood

Inner Circle
Found Wood Sculpture

The People’s Arts Festival and An Announcement!

Perfect Laughter will be at The People’s Arts Festival all weekend! The PAF is pretty special and meaningful to us. Two years ago, it was our very first event, ever. It was the first time that Dennis debuted his paintings in public, and I was starstuck by the positive feedback that he got that day. A few paper goods were sitting on a table with no display, not even a tablecloth. And our business cards were made last minute on tea stained paper, screenprinted and cut by hand. It was a humble beginning to be sure.

Many of our faves will be there, including Audrey Pongracz, Sloe Gin Fizz, All Things Grow, Nerl Says Design, Emi Slade and Kill Taupe (who snagged this week’s cover of Real Detroit!) There are so many booths this year, I’m really looking forward to discovering new Michigan artists to blog about. Are you going to be there? Let us know in the comments!

An Announcement…Spoiler Alert

We’ve been working really hard behind the scenes, and I can safely say now that our new online shop will open for business by September 1st! We even got our prints and paper goods professionally photographed. No grainy iPhone photos like you’ve been seeing from us on Facebook and Twitter. Everything that we’ll have at the PAF will be in our online shop next week. In the meantime, here’s a crappy iPhone pic of our newest screen print, “Moonstruck”. Hope to see you this weekend!

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