The Art Group’s first gallery exhibition features a piece by Lisa DeJohn.

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Friday:John Coulter’s Target Gift Card: Snowboarding Polar Bear

Sarajo writes to us about two shows she is in this weekend.

Event #1:
“Hi Lilla! Enlighten! Artist Lamp Show Benefitting Inner-City Art is a wonderful, one night only event held on November 21 from 5 to 11pm: over 85 limited edition artist lamps for sale to support arts education in Los Angeles. This event has been organized by Tornado Design.”

Event #2:
“Hi Lilla and everyone,
I’ve been invited to participate in an exhibition of international illustrators’ drawings to be held at Hotel de Vil in Stuttgart, Germany. The opening is November 20th at 7pm (19:00). It’s called the 100 Euro Show and it’s curated by Antonio De Luca (Creative Director of Walrus magazine among others). The show highlights drawings and sketches and everything will be priced at 100 euros or less. Here are my images, all ink on paper.”

Monday: More work by Marco Marella

Susy Pilgrim Waters writes in to tell us of a trio of holiday fairs in the Boston area. Mark your calendar and then check out the cool indie goods!

First is a Rebecca Doughty’s Book Signing and Holiday Sale of Deborah Parker’s clothing. Susy writes, “I am a big fan of Rebecca’s work.” Susy forwarded this note from Rebecca:

greetings! you are invited to a

happy wishes from Rebecca

Susy will be selling her textiles & artwork at this event

Finally, Susy will be hosting a trunk sale at her very Susy home. Try to make this. It’s always mobbed and very special.

Monday: New Tea Party pattern by Helen

Lisa writes:

“Hi Lilla,
I wanted to show you a photo of my Renegade Craft booth, photo attached (I shared a booth with my ceramicist friend, Diana Fayt). Chronicle Books was a sponsor at the event and did two separate signings with me where people came to get their products signed by the artist. The fair was super fun, and I had incredible sales and I think the exposure was really fantastic.

Cheers,
Lisa”

Friday: A lovely piece Diane Bigda did for Organic Beauty Magazine

Surtex was fantastic. So much fun; so great for business.

Here’s our booth, all seats taken with a line waiting to see books. It went on like this for most of the three days. That’s Susan M on the upper right showing Suzy Ultman’s portfolio.

Here’s Mike Lowery. He came up from Atlanta and brought his students with him. He’s making Julia and Susan laugh.

More books and stuff.

Another shot of our booths with very focused art directors. That’s the teNeues folks in the middle. Check out Suzy Ultman’s stufftie hanging on the wall. It’s brown with the heart in the middle. Too cute.

Here he is big:

Carolyn Gavin and my mom in front of the booths. Land of Nod and Grace Bonney of design*sponge blog are at our booths, too. How fantastic. My mom was an amazing business person and incredible artist, ahead of her time. She’s 84 and came out from the end of the North Fork of Long Island with my sister to see us. It made my day.

Jamie of Land of Nod and Susan McCabe having fun. I gave Jamie the award (verbally) for best scarf of show.

Thought you’d like to see the books and some of the samples and give-aways. On the right was a baby and juvi compilation I made for the show.

There’s Julia and Susan and a bit of the beautiful Grace Bonney of design*sponge. All I’m going to tell you is that Grace and I had a fascinating discussion about something we want to do together. Trust me; it’s going to be fabulous.

A picture of Helen Dardik’s picture about taking pictures.

Susan M and Allison Cole. Susan was showing someone Allison’s bag which Allison made herself. Probably Susan was showing a manufacturer and wanted to get them to make these bags.

Kristin of Chronicle. We love her. We had some REALLY good ideas for something. It ties into the Grace Bonney/design*sponge thing. I hope I’m tantalizing you.

Here’s a picture of Kristin taking a picture of Suzy Ultman’s doll.

Here’s a point in the show where we had Chronicle, Crate & Barrel, and another group at our booth. How amazing was that? We were kinda blown away.

One great thing was that we got to meet the wonderful reps, Chrystal Falcioni of Magnet and Frank Sturges. Here’s our Susan and Frank. Was great to talk shop.

Here’s Susan’s family. Check out her cute boys. They are fun, cool kids. Check out all the books on the table for clients to see. That’s probably my water bottle on the left. I was allowed to leave it on the table if I was sure to keep the cap on. We had no coffee spills. Amazing. Aren’t the banners beautiful?

Here’s Susan Farrington (on right) and Carolyn Gavin of Ecojot. We went out to dinner at a South African restaurant one night. Carolyn is from South Africa and now lives in Toronto.

It was great fun.

Wednesday: Recent work by Trina Dalziel

Dear Art Director,

Come visit us at Surtex (new location: Booths 251 & 253) and get your free buttons!

See more of Mike’s work here.

Wednesday: New bag by Sarajo Frieden

Here’s Helen’s & Jillian’s wonderful flyers for Surtex. Look what Helen’s done to my logo, that little genius!

And here are teeny tiny versions of Helen’s seven foot banners. Come see them at the show (new location: Booths 251 & 253)!

Monday: Mike Lowery makes pins for us to give away at Surtex!

We are pumped, excited, ready to roll for Surtex. We have a bunch of amazing new artists and a ton of new work.
The show runs concurrently with the Stationery Show and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair which are two really fun shows.

Art Directors: Call us or email us to schedule an appointment to see us. We would love to see you and give you a free button set. For more info on the show: www.surtex.com

Visit us and get a free button set. We have about 10 different designs to choose from.

New this year at Surtex:
–Each artist has made their own printed portfolios for the show. It’s so fun to see each artist’s book.
Here’s Susy Pilgrim Waters’ book:

Here’s Adolie Day’s book, a brand-new artist with us that we are sure will do extremely well.

–Additionally, we have also put together two 200-page books of great art for your convenience at Surtex: Holiday art and Baby & Juvi.

(Baby & Juvi cover art: Suzy Ultman)

(Holiday Book cover art: Carolyn Gavin)

–Also, we have Jillian Phillips’ work organized by Winter Holiday, Baby, All-occasion, Floral, and Boy. I think you’ll find it really fun and easy to go through the books. They are available for license or sale at the show. Here’s one of her images. Prepare to see pages and pages of her great work, and a collection of charming office products by Paperchase of Jillian’s work.

–The ever-popular Ecojot designer and one of our artists, Carolyn Gavin, will have dozens of big, colorful prints ready for sale at the show.

Guess what? We are proud to represent Lisa Congdon, whom many of you know so well. Chronicle just did a collection with her of her birch trees.

This is a charming piece she did for Surtex. I love it. Come see her entire book.=

Angela Liguori writes:

Save the date for the Paper and Fabric Studio Sale!

Please join Angela Liguori and Jill Bent for a studio sale to celebrate the spring season.

We’re offering a new spring selection of beautiful paper goods, stationery, handbound notebooks, cotton ribbons from Italy, and lovely bags and pillows made from vintage fabrics.

Come and do some mother’s day shopping or just browse through some beautiful things with spring in mind. Bring a friend, too!

When: Sunday, May 3rd 1 to 6 pm
Where: At the home of Jill Bent
36 Shea Road, Cambridge MA 02140
617.576.2078

Parking is free on Sundays
Accessible by the T on the Red Line, Davis Square Stop
www.angelaliguori.com
http://angelaliguori.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow: What happens when you ask Carolyn Gavin to do designs for glass doors?

Sarajo writes, “This piece will be auctioned off to benefit stoked LA, a group that works with at risk youth through action sports. I attached the invite info too in case you are interested.

thanks,
sarajo”

Tomorrow: A wonderful event May 3rd in Cambridge, MA