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Emails are great but when I get a card, I know that someone cared enough about me to find a pen (not easy), scratch out a message, lick a stamp, and mail it. Sometimes that's more important than what they said inside. 

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Now showing: Festival of the Arts Online Show. My piece, Reeds Walk, is included in the curated exhibit. Sadly ArtPrize 2020  is canceled due to COVID-19. Additional paintings and notecards are available at our store and All Art Works online gallery. Please subscribe for info on art shows, exhibits, readings, performances and more.

When I live with a painting, I form a relationship with the artist and the piece. I choose pieces that move me, inspire me, surprise me, or, I just can't leave behind.  I have lots of paintings by other artists that do that for me on my walls. I hope my pieces do that for you. If not, I hope you keep searching. The artist is out there for you.

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Last Apartment, an installation exhibited at ArtPrize 2018  illuminates my conflicting feelings over my mother's move from independence in her last apartment to an early dementia facility. I admired her indomitable spirit, endless energy and sometimes reckless pursuit of her dreams but mourned  her increasing confinement by limitations, both real and imagined.

I'd love to share with you what I've learned. Ask me about half-day and full-day workshops and individual lessons.

"Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter." 

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking  

Mary Jane studied art at Bennington College, Savannah College of Art and Design, learned from Mary Bentz Gilkerson, Carolyn Fehsenfeld and Tony Couch. She completed an Artist-In-Residence in Petosky, MI in 2015, and have exhibited locally at the Shibui Gallery, Grand Valley Artist's Gallery, Marywood Center, Celebration of the Arts, ArtPrize, All Art Works, and Salaan Magazine.