Flourish Friday - Zentangle Christmas and Erika Woods

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I will show you our 2010 Christmas card next week, but this is our family Christmas card from 2008.  The front (above) was inspired by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts' Liberty's Light piece which you can see by clicking here.  (Maria and Rick our the founders of Zentangle.)

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This is the inside. For years, all four of us have signed our Christmas card.  Not this year. The kids were home at Thanksgiving, but I wasn't even close to having our Christmas card designed and ready for signing at that time.

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This was the front of our 2005 Christmas card. Those compound strokes make me cringe now, but I was thrilled with it back then. haha. I was in full mandala mania mode after my guild's workshop with Pat Blair. :)  (and you regular readers know I'm still a mandala maniac!)

This is the lovely Erika Woods. She is one of the pillars of the Calligraphy Guild of Indiana.  Erika is a gifted artist, calligrapher, teacher and is a champion for the lettering arts.  She was named the Indianapolis Art Center's Faculty of the Year for 2010. As a celebration of that award, the IAC wanted to honor Erika with a special exhibit of her work.

The opening reception for Erika's exhibit was this past Friday.  Many of Erika's new works are based on Jean Shinoda Bolen's book, "Urgent Message from Mother."

It is a wonderful exhibit! If you are in the Indianapolis area anytime between now and January 30th - treat yourself - go see it!

Gallery Hours are: 

Monday through Friday: 9am - 10pm

Saturday: 9am - 6pm

Sunday: Noon - 6pm

The Indianapolis Art Center is located at 67th Street and College Avenue (in Broadripple).

Congratulations Erika!

Visit Erika's website here.

Erika is also one of the talented artists of ArtSplash in the Arts & Design District of Carmel. 

Visit the ArtSplash website here.

Go put some flourish in your Friday!