Last weekend, my friend, the sculptor J. T. Gibson, called to ask if I would come to …

Here’s what I have to say after really watching a group of people make prints at Saturday’s …

We’re nearing June which means we’re nearing summer and the end of the school year. I’m so …

We’ve been swimming in a sea of digitally created, manipulated, distributed and proliferated photographs for many years …

For Mother’s Day, I was asked by the Early Stage School in Poland to design a simple …

This Fotoplay page was sent to me by Hugh Kepets, an artist whose work and home I …

It’s been distractingly gorgeous outside: Warm. Sunny. Quintessentially Springy. And yet, today, on another quintessentially gorgeous Spring …

It’s mid April, and everyone –animal, insect, human– is feeling it: Spring is here and it’s magnificent. …

I’ve just returned from a vacation out at sea, sailing around the Caribbean on a big ship, …

I recently received a note from collage artist Daniel Anselmi, asking if I would be interested in …

I’m a month behind in posting, but the February ArtLab for All Ages workshop at CMCA was …

I was particularly excited to be asked by the Early Stage School in Poland to design Fotoplay …

Two and a half months ago I wrote about completing the first draft of my Fotoplay book …

This past weekend at the CMCA ArtLab, the room was overflowing. With people, paper, and lots of …

The Recycled Menagerie, a delightful collection of whimsical creatures created by the late Joel Glassman (1911-2007), opened …

Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day. Overflowing with flowers, hearts, chocolate, and hopefully love, it’s a day, like …

In past posts (here and here) I’ve written about collaborative journals, and my family’s ritual of drawing …

The first CMCA ArtLab workshop of 2013 (yesterday), was focused on the idea of paint chip mosaics. To …

Because it’s impossible to come to the end of the year without reflecting and assessing, I thought …

It’s been a few months since I signed a contract with Chronicle Books for a new edition …

Click the image above to see the latest from the inimitable Alexis Iammarino. This film is actually …

Many thanks to Lauren Nassiff of 365 Children’s Books for the wonderful review of Fotoplay! Lauren’s photograph …

I learned this week that my photograph, Holding On, Letting Go #22, was selected for Parallax, The …

Inspired by the work of Maine poet/artist/illustrator/storyteller Ashley Bryan, I created a luminary project for yesterday’s ArtLab …

‘Tis the season to turn toward light and song and myth and tradition…and Fotoplay! I was recently …

This is the third post featuring the work of artist Alexis Iammarino: dancer, teacher, and Fotoplay artist …

It’s winter. It’s cold. The trees have lost their leaves. The sun sets, it seems, a few …

I was recently asked if I would design, pro-bono, a Fotoplay page for an International Project initiated …

I spent hours this week leading Matisse-inspired art projects, and I’m left with one burning question: Why …

Take a look at this Halloween photo-collage, sent to me today from the super-creative teachers and students …

Today is Halloween, and looking at the piles of completed Fotoplay pages sent to me by the …

Here it is. The “big news” I alluded to a couple of weeks ago: I’ve just signed …

Many thanks to Bar Rucci for choosing Fotoplay as one of “the best drawing books that ignite …

This past weekend I visited the Lucas Gallery in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton …

Last week the kids at the Early Stage school in Poland turned the tables on me and …

In the first collection of pages I created for the Early Stage School in Poland, I included …

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the quest for a ball and socket joint, which …

Along with the works I posted yesterday, the pages above were sent to me from the Early …

This morning I received a few emails filled with Fotoplay pages from the children at the Early …

This week marks the one year anniversary of This Playground, and that means it’s time for some …

For the past year and a half I’ve been an instructor at the Center for Maine Contemporary …

This week I completed my commission for the Early Stage school in Warsaw, a project which I’ve …

In my last post I wrote about a recent visit to the home of Hugh Kepets and …

I’ve just returned from a many-faceted trip, where one of the highlights was a visit with our …

In time for the new school year, I’ve just completed the first part of my commission for …

Today was the last day of my “We Are All Builders” workshop at the Center for Maine …

Yesterday was day four of my Animals in Art workshop at the CMCA ArtLab, and I thought it …

Yesterday, midway through my Animals ArtLab Art Camp workshop at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art, I …

A few months ago, I was contacted by the leading English language school in Warsaw, Poland, Early …

This past Saturday at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, I led another ArtLab For All Ages …

Today is my birthday, and even though I proclaimed, over and over again, that I didn’t feel …

Today, in the midst of a rather dark, dreary afternoon, I received an email with these wonderful …

Last year, in an earlier post, I wrote about the fourth series in the large, ongoing collection …

Yesterday, on a super hot summer afternoon, I led another workshop at the Center for Maine Contemporary …

It’s summer, the windows are open, my studio is newly cleaned, and I’m preparing for my summer …

The Fotoplay page Gallery / Archive is now live on This Playground, and I do think that …

Yesterday I spent the afternoon as a visiting artist at a residential treatment center in rural Maine, …

This page was sent to me this morning from Thurgoona, NSW, Australia. It was created by Freya, …

It’s completely unoriginal for me to say that I love working with kids because I learn so …

This is the third post (but not the last) on Fotoplay pages that were completed at the …

In yesterday’s post I wrote about one group of completed pages from the Fotoplay books I donated …

One week ago I wrote about donating five Fotoplay books to the hospital emergency room in my …

Many thanks to Cassi, blogger extraordinaire, for featuring Fotoplay on her excellent children’s craft blog, The Crafty …

On Wednesday afternoon, I donated five Fotoplay books and a basket of art supplies to Kim Spectre, …

In an earlier post, I wrote about the work of artist Alexis Iammarino, her lifelong involvement with …

The act of etching a dark black scratchboard, combined with the metaphysical endeavor of creating a self-portrait …

How can anyone who’s in a position of power even consider cutting art education out of a …

What is a teacher really doing when they give a written or visual prompt to a student? …

I’ve written a few times before about exquisite corpse, the wonderful drawing game made popular by the …

I think my eyes are wide open, I think I’m fully awake, I think my senses are …

While more than fifty people participated in yesterday’s ArtLab workshop at CMCA, there were many more than …

What makes us stop in our tracks to really look at a work of art? What pulls …

The Fotoplay pages in this post were created by a young lady named Isabel, who clearly does …

Yesterday’s book signing at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art was just one of the events we …

Here’s a peek at today’s book signing at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, which is located …

Many thanks to Cool Mom Picks for their terrific review of Fotoplay! After cool mom Christina Refford …

In anticipation of this Saturday’s book signing at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art, I’ve designed four …

The work in this post was sent to me by Alexis Iammarino, a many-faceted artist/teacher who is …

This completed page was sent to me by Corine D., an art therapist in New York City, …

Yesterday’s ArtLab workshop at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art was filled with adults and children of …

Yesterday I received in the mail, all the way from Australia, the gorgeous magazine you see in …

This post is filled with the carefully considered work of nine year old Daniel, who is painting …

With lots of help, I’ve been preparing for the next ArtLab for All Ages at the Center …

Yesterday was the third day of my residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School. We moved from …

On day two of my residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School, I worked with 40 more …

Yesterday was the first day of my residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School. As I wrote …

This is a photograph I received a few days ago, of two cousins, Seamus and Avery, with …

On Monday I’ll begin a Fotoplay-inspired residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School, in Rockport, Maine. The …

What does it mean to draw or color? What happens when a child (or a grown child) …

In this gallery, #2 of works created from my Fotoplay book, I’ve posted more pages made at …

On Tuesday, I delivered to the Starrett Children’s Center two copies of my Fotoplay book. Those of …

The Fotoplay book trailer is HERE! I will be brief and let this gorgeous creation speak for …

Fotoplay! The Book, has arrived, and is now available for shipping!  As with the creation of all …

This post is part 2 of one from last week, in which I wrote about a workshop …

Spring break at Bowdoin College. An empty campus; most buildings were locked. But the drawing studio was …

I’ve wanted to write about exquisite corpse since I first created this blog, for lots of reasons: …

Yesterday I led a workshop at the Rockport Public Library, which I designed in response to the …

A few months ago, Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue, the creators of the wonderful BIG Kids Magazine, …

Yesterday’s ArtLab workshop at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art was focused on monsters, and as usual, …

Tomorrow I’ll be leading another workshop at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine. To …

In earlier posts, here and here, I wrote about the world of stock photography and the many …

In my last post, I wrote about the year-long evolution of the cover of Fotoplay, and the …

I spent this past week still completely immersed in refining the design of my Fotoplay book and …

Last year, in my very first post on this blog, I wrote about children’s art, and how …

The Fotoplay Invitational, What’s On the Horizon?, is now complete. Nine unique works were created in response …

I’m pleased to offer you the second of my free Fotoplay pages, which is also a sneak …

This weekend I received an email from my friend Maya, along with photographs of the work she …

The final design of my book is now completed, and I expect to see the first full …

Today in my inbox I received three Fotoplay pages, from a wonderful illustrator who lives near Montreal. …

While I continue to receive new work for the Fotoplay Invitational, I won’t be posting about it …

This morning I received an email from my friend Chris,with his contribution to the Fotoplay Invitational. Once …

The newest pieces to arrive in my inbox for the Fotoplay Invitational were created by my friend …

Have you ever, while standing on a beach looking out at the horizon, felt that you were …

Gallery 2 of the Fotoplay Invitational includes works that suggest (one with more subtlety than the other) …

The first two pieces for the Fotoplay Invitational have arrived, and I have to say that I …

When thinking about creating a new Fotoplay image for the Invitational, what I wanted, first and foremost, …

It is no longer December, and it is no longer the “holiday season.” As I wrote in …

The photograph of the work above arrived by email yesterday, along with the series of photographs that …

Early this morning, on this first bright day of the New Year, I opened my inbox and …

It’s New Year’s Eve, and photographs of two new December Fotoplay cards, that I think are so …

These winter mornings, anticipating the Fotoplay cards that might be waiting for me in my inbox, I …

Gallery 8 of the December Fotoplay cards is filled with works that share a sense of playfulness, …

Here in gallery 7 of the December Fotoplay cards, you’ll see a Guggenheim-esque sculpture, “stained glass” windows, …

While I am far from happy about it, I am going to openly admit the following: I …

In earlier posts, here and here, I wrote about my holiday card ritual, and why it is …

It seems that the zeitgeist of this group of December Fotoplay cards is Conceptual. The above work …

The creators of this next collection of December Fotoplay worked with markers, pencil, and collage, and designed …

This is the second set of completed December Fotoplay cards. All the work was created by adults, …

This year, for my annual holiday card, I created a Fotoplay image (I took the original photograph …

The lovely folks at BIG magazine recently asked me to create a Fotoplay page for their upcoming …

This week, my son, my husband and I decided to build a holiday tree, using whatever we …

Last spring, I created this Fotoplay page using a photograph I took eight years ago at the …

In an earlier post I wrote about the world of stock photography and a few of the …

In an earlier post I wrote about the not-so-obvious (and sometimes mystical) part of the process of …

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my annual holiday card project in my post “one image, …

Yesterday in CMCA’s ArtLab the children created their third collaborative painting. If I’d have videotaped this session, …

After tonight’s delicious Thanksgiving feast, there were games and conversations, and then there was Fotoplay… Below is …

Thank goodness I was in New York last December for that record-setting blizzard. And thank goodness there …

For twenty years I’ve been sending photographs to various agencies (aka stock houses) to license my work. …

I was fascinated by the responses to the head template stamps I made, so I created a …

My attraction to the mystical head-template-stamp idea lingered, so I made a few more basic head shape …

Here is a gallery of works created by both children and adults, using the same Fotoplay page. …

In the spring of 2011 I was asked to look through my archives and create a photograph …

Do you like to read books? Do you like to look at hand-colored photographs? Are you crazy …

It was a cold, snowy day when I visited the British Museum in London. But then I …

…framing and reframing in the stedelijk museum…

…this liquid life…

In November of 2010, I received a grant from the Maine Foundation, Early StARTS, to work with …

I went back to Florence for a week in September and came home with one photograph. 
…italia, …

A lamp I created with slides of  my husband’s and my work. Or: What does one do …

…a moment of silence amidst days of rhythm and song…

In the summer of 2011, I was commissioned to create a wall mural for City Drawers, a …

This is another collaborative piece created during my time at the Starrett Children’s Center. Contributing artists: Grace, …

…the view from our window over Hartenstraat…

Children, and the art created by children, have long been a source of inspiration for me. Children …