The Sand Mandala Project with the Newark Museum, Newark NJ. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion. The sand mandala creation promoted community and healing by creating a large scale communal sand mandala at the Newark Museum, Late Thursdays event 1967/50th Anniversary that took place at the Newark Museum on October 19th, 2017. We broke an attendance record for the event with 607 people of the community of Newark celebrating community and healing. The sand was later released into the Passaic River on Earth Day in 2018 as an offering of pure joy for the city of Newark and its continued healing.
© Photo 2017 Laurie M.
Halsey Street Festival with the Newark Museum, Newark NJ. Art activity in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion. We promoted community and healing by creating a communal sand mandala at the Halsey Street Festival. An all day culminating event 67/50, will take place at the Newark Museum on October 19th, 2017.
© Photo 2017 Laurie M.
Halsey Street Festival with the Newark Museum, Newark NJ. Art activity in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion. We promoted community and healing by creating a communal sand mandala at the Halsey Street Festival. An all day culminating event 67/50, will take place at the Newark Museum on October 19th, 2017.
© Photo 2017 Laurie M.
Halsey Street Festival with the Newark Museum, Newark NJ. Art activity in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion. We promoted community and healing by creating a communal sand mandala at the Halsey Street Festival. An all day culminating event 67/50, will take place at the Newark Museum on October 19th, 2017.
© Photo 2017 Laurie M.
Grandma's Eleanore’s purple embroidery floss on dark blue linen, 41" 1/2' x 24", 5_10_2018-6_1_2018, 11:43 a.m.
Laurie M. had a profoundly powerful conversation with someone she cares deeply for on May, 10th, 2018. She acknowledged that person for their purity, and said she had not encountered that quality revealed in someone she cared for up to that point in her life. Laurie M. believes fundamentally that all beings are pure and full of light. Some are aware of their light and others are not.
Companion to SPIRITUAL, the tenth word from the series of word works directly related to JOY.
Created on 9_3 _2018, ended at 1:22p.m. Purple embroidery floss on white cotton fabric, 29 3/4” x 16 1/2”. Finally created on the morning of 9_3_2018. Laurie M. had wanted to embroider this work weeks ago after she created the work SPIRITUAL on what would have been her Swedish grandmother Sylvia’s 114th birthday. It had to be released from her system, her hands needed to create it. Completed on the day Laurie M. took a big personal risk that led to a profound personal experience later that evening.
Tribute to Mycologist Gary Lincoff (mentor to Laurie M.) who died on 3_16_2018), 4:23 p.m.
Blue embroidery floss on dark blue linen, 40” 1/4’ x 26” 1/4’, 4:23 p.m.
Laurie M. wanted to pay tribute to her mycology mentor Gary Lincoff upon hearing of his untimely death. MAGICAL JOY seemed to encapsulate all she felt about Gary and the forays she enjoyed going on with him as part of the New York Mycological Society. She embroidered it the day of his service at Woodlawn Cemetery on 3_19_2018. He had a profound effect on Laurie M. as a person, he was the true embodiment of both words.
The seventh in a series of word works directly related to JOY. Created on 6_30_2018, 1:10p.m., Grandma Eleanore's light blue embroidery floss on white towel, 31 3/4” x 28 3/4”.
Typo, red embroidery floss on white towel, corrected on 7_1_2018, (Canada Day) at 2:59p.m.
Sand dissolution ceremony, Passaic River, Earth Day 2018 (photo of sand release into the Passaic River at Riverfront Park) from the Art and Community, Come Together: The Sand Mandala Project Newark 1967/50.
Come Together: The Sand Mandala Project with the Newark Museum, Newark NJ. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion. The sand mandala creation promoted community and healing by creating a large scale communal sand mandala at the Newark Museum, Late Thursdays event 1967/50th Anniversary that took place at the Newark Museum on October 19th, 2017. Attendance records were broken for the event with 607 people of the community of Newark celebrating community and healing. The sand was later released into the Passaic River on Earth Day in 2018 as an offering of pure joy for the city of Newark and its continued healing.
© Photo 2018 Laurie M.
The first in a series of word works directly related to JOY.
Embroidery completed 6_24_2017 4:15pm grandma Eleanore’s light blue embroidery floss on white fabric, 29 3/4” x 18 3/4”.
Cyanotype, 4” x 6”, 5_4_2017, started at 2:00 p.m.
White embroidery floss on scrap of blue fabric, 25" x 18", 1_4_2017, 9:42 a.m.
The fourth in a series of word works directly related to JOY.
Embroidery completed 10_29_2017 4:45pm grandma Eleanore’s light blue embroidery floss on white fabric, 29 3/4” x 18 3/4”.
RELIEF the fifth in a series of word works directly related to JOY.
Embroidery completed 3_8_2018 3:05pm grandma Eleanore’s light blue embroidery floss on white fabric, 29 3/4” x 18 3/4”.
White embroidery floss on scrap of blue fabric, 19" x 25", 10_4_2016
White embroidery floss on white fabric Muslim shroud,
59" x 152", 6_17_2016
NEWARK IS JOY Newark 7_14_2017 12:50pm
NEWARK IS JOY created on the 50th anniversary and what would have been, the third day of the Newark Rebellion in 1967.
White oil on white Gamblin ground on Irish linen, 71 1/4” x 48"
NEWARK IS JOY Newark 7_14_2017 12:50pm
NEWARK IS JOY created on the 50th anniversary and what would have been, the third day of the Newark Rebellion in 1967.
White oil on white Gamblin ground on Irish linen, 71 1/4” x 48"
Kiln formed glass, 11_11_2016-11_18_2016, 9 3/4" x 4 3/4"