It's all coming together nicely. The website will be up within the next week. I have an opening this Friday, so I have to get back to the studio to finish my work for the show. There's an opening at Magnolia's Cafe where I have some of my glass jewelry, so I owe Catie a visit to stock up before her event.

It's been a busy time. The sun is up and the possibilities are endless! Think I am finally starting to embrace fall!

Maggie Bokor Website update!

The final layout is coming together nicely for my website. Thank you Angela Smith! She is doing a killer job and I am so grateful to be working with her. You can check out her other work at http://www.angelskill.com/ . Very cool indeed!

A song with Sean Mencher and the Rythm Kings

Saturday night, I had the honor to sing a Patsy Cline tune called " Gotta lot of Rhythm in my Soul" with my friend Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings at the Bramhall Pub in Portland Maine.

If you have never been to the Bramhall Pub, it's a treat. It's located on Congress under the Roma restaurant. The shows always start at 10pm after the restaurant ends their dinner service. There's a great bar, pool table and pub atmosphere down at the pub. Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings are absolutely fabulous and I was honored to share the stage for my song. Check out this great rockabilly band at www.myspace.com/seanmencher.

A day of photographing work

I have to admit that I have been avoiding photographing my work, but as the reality of my website draws near....I know it's time to get to work. I have been looking for some lighting solutions at home and finally found a system that works.

Last weekend I participated in the End of Summer Sale at Artascope Studios in South Portland. It was great. I shared a table with Sue Drown Trout which worked out fabulously. She was able to man our booth in the morning while I taught Nia and I came in for the afternoon. It was a very successful day. You can check out the blog I wrote about the event at http://www.artnightout.blogspot.com/

In any case, I designed a new display to show off my wares using lots of beach sand and a little imagination. After the show, I wasn't sure how I wanted to store the display. So it's in my studio and I decided to try it out as the background for my jewelry and val la! Pure magic! So glad I am able to be self sufficient and get my jewelry on the web and finally into my etsy store. Patience is definitely a virtue I am still reaching for. Thank goodness for resourcefulness!

Localmotion Art Opening: October 3rd

I will be a part of the LocalMotion Art Show: Performance during First Friday Art Walk in Portland this October.

"LocalMotion is a ‘mosaic’ of Maine artisans exploring the social, political, cultural and personal aspects of everyday life in the 21st Century as influenced by the interweaving of global and local issues. It will feature sculpture, craft, apparel design, painting, prints and photo. We will be raffling off artwork. Performance starting at 8pm will feature Port Veritas Poets, lots of local writers and musicians, an Add Verb Skit about gender awareness, dancing, drag, and more. This show is in conjunction with the Tina Smith Beacon for Change Campaign. Tina is a Green candidate for City Council At-Large."

Sounds pretty interesting and I am glad to be a part of it. I am submitting a few paintings. I have already decided on "Stilts" as one of my pieces and I am deciding on using an older painting that would work well with the theme of this event called "Neighbors". My goal is to get into the studio over the next week or so and start the second painting in the home series.

Friday, October 3, 2008
5:00pm - 10:00pm

The Meg Perry Center
644 Congress St Portland, ME

www.maggiebokor.com website update

It's all coming together nicely. With the wonderful assistance from graphic designer, Angela Smith, I am finally getting ready to launch http://www.maggiebokor.com/. My next step is to get my etsy store up and running. With upcoming shows and submissions, I am staying busy. This has been a labor of love and I will be so grateful to see it come to life! For now, you can check me out at http://www.maggiestyle.com/.

Color revisited

Playing with color and clouds these days. Fascinated by creating movement with paint and capturing a vision from my mind's eye. There is a real freedom in working with the sky because of the steady change in nature. Unlike copying a photograph or imagining a single moment in time, the constant tiny shifts work like my brush stroke across the canvas.

September-Studio redesigned!

Summer has been extremely busy up here and we are finally starting to see things slow down a bit with visitors to our home. Over the past few weeks, Greg and I have been redesigning the rooms to create a better home office and completely empty my studio of anything not pertaining to paint or metals. It feels absolutely wonderful.

My dear friend Celia was able to visit twice in the past two weeks and witness the transformation. I owe my new found energy to finish each room to Celia and to mother nature. A flood in the basement a few weeks ago allowed us to reorganize. It's ready for clay when I say go.

Been working on a new series of paintings depicting my relationship with home. This one has gone through a few major shifts and I feel good about the end result. I call it Stilts. I will be putting this into my next gallery opening in October in Portland. It talks to me about the precarious nature of home ownership. There is a tricky balance between what we desire, how much it may cost you in time, money and resources and the real need of shelter.