An Afternoon Spent Art Journaling at Art Fiber Fest: The Way Real Life Should Be

Every afternoon, you should be able to go somewhere and forget everything about the rest of your life and just spend a couple hours hanging out with really cool people who are making stuff and talking and sharing ideas and laughing. Perhaps wine would be involved (it wasn’t, here). Perhaps there would be snacks. Or music. You would get to choose.
I’ve longed for such a community forever and have, at various times, tried to create one, with little success. So you can imagine how thrilling it is when something like this happens.
This is Friday afternoon at one of the groovy new dorms at Reed College in Portland, for Art Fiber Fest. Teesha Moore puts it on with a little bit of help from her husband, Tracy, and her daughters, Tiphoni and Trista.
Theo Ellsworth is a friend of theirs, and Judy Wise teaches at Artfest (among many other teaching venues), which is another of Teesha’s babies.
I sat and stitched happily as Teesha and Tracy talked about the beginnings of alternative art retreats. Then, at some point, I realized I should share this with y’all.
Here you go: