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Beasts of Burden and Compassion Arts Festival NYC

 

Sacrifice by Jane O'Hara, 2005

 

New York friends, I wanted to remind you that "Beasts of Burden: Our Complex Relationship with Animals" will be on view October 20 - 22 in NYC. 

The exhibition is part of the Compassion Arts Festival, a weekend of song, artistry, discussion, film, and performances reflecting our multifaceted relationships with the earth and the animals we share it with.

There are two "Beast of Burden" events, the art show and a multimedia performance by curator, artist, and activist, Jane O'Hara.

If there's one piece that exemplifies the show for me, its Jane's Sacrifice (above), a 5-foot tall screen that depicts nine animals wearing vestments of the companies that killed them. It's inspired by iconic paintings of Christian martyrs and the notion that millions of animals sacrifice their lives to powerful forces everyday in similarly barbaric ways.

I think it will be moving to see this piece in person.

Also, I'm proud to have my work, Twelve dox-ZENs, included.

 

 

Twelve dox-ZENs by Moira McLaughlin, 2014

I produced this work in the in the wake of the death of my beloved longhaired Dachshund named Darby. For months, I was crippled by grief and creative paralysis. 

Finally, I decided to paint dozens of sumi-e ink Darbys on the pages of a deconstructed book, Buddhism and Zen by Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth Strout McCandless. The series is a meditation on the Buddhist concept that the mind is an endless cycle of three processes: craving, acting, and discontentment.  

 

 

dox-ZEN XII

 

Exhibition: "Beasts of Burden: Our Complex Relationship with Animals"

TUF Gallery/O’Hara Projects
208 East 73 St.
New York, NY 10021

Opening Reception and Book Signing: Friday, Oct 20, 2017, 5 – 8 pm (vegan friendly & free to the public)

Gallery Hours: Saturday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22, 11 am - 6pm

Performance: "Reflections on Beasts of Burden by Jane O'Hara"

Saturday, October 21, 7:30pm

Symphony Space/Leonard Nimoy Theatre
2537 Broadway
New York, NY10025

Tickets for Jane's multimedia presentation are $20 in advance and $25 day of show available here.

Visit Beasts of Burden for more information about this exhibition and performance.

For information about all the animal-centric events happening this weekend visit Compassion Arts Festival.

P.S. Sadly I won't be able to attend. If you have a chance to take photos, I would love to see them. Tag me on Instagram and Twitter.

Thank you so much.  Enjoy!

 

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General Wolf Rules for Life

 

 

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Via Finkiyaya's Pinterest Board.

Hat tip to reader Cathy Meisemann for letting me know the original source.

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver, Penguin Press 2013

Pulitzer prize winning poet Mary Oliver's new book, Dog Songs, celebrates dogs.
The New York Times calls it "a sweet golden retriever of a book that curls up with the reader."  Read the full review here.

Watch Mary Oliver read her poem "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night."  I can't stop thinking about it...

Click here to view video on Dog Art Today.

Order Dogs Songs by Mary Oliver at Amazon.

Hat tip to my cousin Clair Lamb for letting me know about this new book.   Beautiful.

Contest: 1000 Dog Portraits Book

Modern Dog Design Co., the Seattle-based, internationally acclaimed design studio is accepting submissions for 1000 Dog Portraits, a full-color, 320-page book slated for publication in the spring of 2014.  Sections will include every breed, including mutts and oddballs, with an special introductory emphasis on Beagles.  All mediums are accepted including pen and ink, watercolor, oil, charcoal, digital, mixed media or collage.

Rockport Publishers, a company that specializes in books for design professionals, is sponsoring the contest and will publish the book.

Click here to submit your dog portraits.  Submission deadline: April 1, 2013, 10pm EST.

Like them on Facebook.

Hat tip to Patti Haskins (whose dog portrait graces the contest's Facebook page) and Rachel Petrovich for letting me know about this contest brought to you by "true dog lovers and people who love art, design and kick-ass illustration."

Susan Clute: Roxie's Mom Wins Knitting Book

Susan Clute and Roxie by Michael Clute (who's called Jack when he's on his motorcycle)

Full disclosure, I wanted Susan Clute to win the book Knit Your Own Dog: The Second Litter by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne.  Susan is my friend and neighbor.  She has been knitting for over 50 years. She works at our local yarn shop, MeadowFarm Yarn Studio in Nevada City, California, where she teaches and connects with a talented group of fiber artists in our community.  She owns a spinning wheel.  She and her husband, Mike or Jack,  give me heirloom zucchini seeds and taught me how to make pomegranate jelly.  And, she has a gorgeous, brilliant, willful, funny Wirehaired Dachshund named Roxie. 

But, this was an official contest.  So I let the website Truly Random Number Generator select the winner.

Susan won! 

Congratulations, Roxie's mom.  It was meant to be.