Project 2020

  (L) Adjoa opens the page she created in Aziza's book while Pam looks on. (R) Gail is shown with her accordion book about the Crocodile. As we move closer to the end of the book rotation, Pam was kind enough to let us meet at her beach home again in Venice Beach, MD on March 27. We turned each page of Aziza's book with excitement, marveling at all the diverse styles and materials used. Everyone enjoyed looking at Gail's book as well, as she unfolded each page in her accordion book. 

I explored a variety of materials in my studio to use in Aziza's book. I ended up using translucent vellum paper, india ink, white embossed paper, and a woodcut that I created years earlier. I cut out some of my images and pasted them to the page to create a collage. I really liked the back paper that Aziza chose for her book. Everything looks great against black.

  This piece honors my name and depicts both me and my mother as young adults and mature women. When I was a child, I didn't like my name much.  I only knew 2 other Pamela's in school, and people tended to call me 'Patricia' rather than Pamela (this still happens today)---I'm not certain why because they don't sound alike. One day in frustration I complained to my mom that I didn't like my name.  She looked sad and said, "I named you after me.  I didn't want to name you 'Patricia' because then people would get us confused." My mom has always been my guiding light, the person I wanted to grow up to be.  I greatly admired her and from that day forward took pride in my name. Our middle names are "Anne" meaning 'favor' or 'grace' and this I knew was in honor of my great-great-great-grandmother, Anne Nichols.  In our family names are a source of pride and a way of honoring past ancestors.  Middle names are typically...