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| Imagine taking a taxi ride in Seattle, going up a flight of stairs and opening up a door to find an magic world of artistamps. I have never seen so many artistamps in my life (and I've seen quite a few). Robert Rudine the gracious host of the Museum of Artistamps (MOA) in Seattle and his charming wife, the writer Janet Yoder were kind enough to invite us to the MOA last week. Or, maybe I invited myself..... |
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| The world is Tui Tui Land and this article explains it much better than I can Check out the story and the video by Kathleen McHugh....Robert and Janet gave us free reign to wander around and oooh and ah over the vast number of beautiful stamps in the collection. |
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| Bart Stamps |
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| On the wall was a large wooden rubber stamp...... |
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| that opened up (both top & Bottom) to use as a writing table and for storage. How cool is that? (Hi Charity) |
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| Absolutely everywhere we looked there were wonderful stamps.... |
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| Being a photographer by trade, I especially love these EYE stamps by Anna Banana. |
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| And these...so cool.... |
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| Really nice storage case....hum...that gave someone an idea.... |
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| Really wonderful Harvey Milk artistamps at the MOA and just read today that Harvey Milk to be Honored on US Postage Stamps Pretty great. |
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| Here is our artistamp maker and host now -- Robert Rudine -- with Kelly P (left) and Charity (Right). They look like they were having fun. |
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| Thank you Robert and Janet for a wonderful and inspiring afternoon. |
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| In a complete chance of venue....this is a shot of the artists on the trip in Portland outside of SCRAP. They were all in such a hurry to get inside and see what was in there they made me wait to take photos till after the Scrap shopping. And yes, we all scored and there was no fighting. Not too much anyway. Left to Right Pamela, Tallie, Charity, Kelly and Millicent. We look happy, don't we? What's not to like? Artistamps? A road trip? An art workshop? Lots of dinners out? Remember to put a stamp on it! Love your comments. Thanks to all who post comments and keep me motivated to take time away from making mail art to work on the blog. |
