February 2012
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New work photographed and posted
I recently completed Tea Party, a series of molded paper tea pots, cups, saucers and accessories. Using fresh sheets of wet handmade paper (from Helen Hiebert), I draped them over my great aunt’s tea set objects. Photographs by Bill Bachhuber.
More photos here:
www.dianejacobs.net
November 2011
10 posts
Stories of PLACE (People Language Art Culture...
Read the project’s description in the SE Examiner:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=667&NewsID=1008112&CategoryID=2148&on=1
February 2011
13 posts
Stories of PLACE at Atkinson Elementary School
A school wide tile project is underway at Atkinson. I am leading K-5th graders in clay tile exploration. Each student at Atkinson (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) will make at least one clay tile to go on one of the three walls in the outdoor classroom. We are focusing on NW native fauna and flora. By the end of the summer the two walls on the inside of the outdoor classroom will be installed. The final...
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Stories of PLACE
Welcome Tree – The Atkinson community
The exterior outdoor classroom wall will welcome people to the Atkinson Learning Gardens entering the school from the back (south courtyard) entrance. A large tree formed out of clay will have “welcome” in many different languages carved in the branches. Students will make low relief clay NW native animals that live near and in trees. Each branch will identify...
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Atkinson Garden Life – The interior large wall of the outdoor classroom will have identification tiles inviting exploration of plants and animals found in the Atkinson Outdoor Learning Gardens. Students will make I.D. tiles of birds that frequent the gardens and press leaves, seeds, and flowers of plants found in the NW habitat and pollinator gardens into clay. Multilingual stories from Atkinson...
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Our Local Ecosystems –The entire eastern wall of the outdoor classroom (beneath the glass) will depict scenes of Multnomah County ecosystems; a stream, a prairie and woodland interwoven with multi-lingual, nature-themed stories gathered from the Atkinson community. Diane Jacobs will paint this landscape mural on the wall. Students will create clay tiles identifying animals that live in each...
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Stories of PLACE (people, language, art, culture...
Stories of PLACE is an exploration of natural science and cultural history through art. Murals and ceramic tiles will be installed on the walls of the outdoor classroom, in Atkinson Elementary’s wildlife habitat. The project results in permanent interpretive signage for Atkinson’s gardens, and provides students with hands-on art activities integrated with PPS standards-based science...
November 2010
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MAGNA CARTA art/paper
November 17, 2010 - January 15, 2011
Cain Sculte Contemporary Art San Francisco 251 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 USA
Check out my piece “Fed up. Unlock” in the group show Magna Carta.
August 2010
1 post
Third Annual Portland Letterpress Printers' Fair
I have a booth at this year’s printers’ fair. Come see what I have and join the fun on Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 11am - 5 pm at 323 SE Division Place, Portland, Oregon 97202. Admission 11 am - 2 pm - $2 from 2-5 pm - free
July 2010
2 posts
CODEX - Feb. 6 - 9, 2011
I reserved a table at the infamous CODEX book fair. I am very excited about participating and displaying my books. My hope is to have my new artist book hot off the press for the fair. Mark your calendars and be sure to come stop by my table.
Bowing to Paradox
Check out my installation at 23 Sandy Gallery (623 NE 23rd Avenue). The show runs from July 1 - 31, 2010. Gallery hours: Thurs. - Sat. 12 - 6 p.m. I will be at the gallery on July 16 & 30 from 12 - 6 p.m. Artist Talk on Saturday July 24 at 4 p.m.
May 2010
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BOOK POWER!
April 2010
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23 Sandy Gallery →
I have the good fortune of having a one-person show at 23 Sandy gallery in NE Portland the month of July, 2010. Please check back to see how it is progressing.
March 2010
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Author/Illustrator Gala
Please join us at the Barnes & Noble at Clackamas Town Center in Portland OR - tomorrow, Saturday, March 13 from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. 18 author/illustrators will have 5 minutes to tell the story behind the story, give a quick synopsis or read a passage from their children’s book. Book signing will follow. I GO FIRST so please get there at 3 p.m. sharp! Thanks for your support :)
February 2010
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Hand Eye Magazine write up →
January 2010
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Portland Book Reading Feb. 18, 2010
A Children’s Place bookstore at 4807 NE Fremont in Portland will be hosting a reading and book signing by Diane Jacobs, illustrator of Grappling with the Grumblies on February 18, 2010 at 4 p.m.
“Grump!” said the Grumblie, and the Grumblie grew …
“Everyone grapples with the grumblies from time to time, but this lovely (and funny!) book will help your child—and you—discover new ways of...
Please send me clean poultry wish bones
I have been collecting chicken and turkey wishbones for several years now and it is a very slow process. One of my hopes for starting a blog is to connect with people. I like collecting things. In order for me to get the quantity I want for a big project I need to solicit help from interested folks. So please save me your clean chicken wishbones and send them my way. I have a show in July at 23...
December 2009
3 posts
Pollinator Panels Installed at Atkinson
Friday December 11 was a perfect day! The weather finally warmed up and the sun was shinning bright. I got to Atkinson early to load the kiln with pressed clay leaves for the large Welcome Tree mosaic mural that is part of the “Stories of Place” project I am hoping to lead at Atkinson if funded. At 1:30 we hung the panels on the fence. Thank you to my helpers Rosie, Gail, Sanquinetta,...
Deborah and I launched Grappling with the...
I just got this photo from our weekend in Vancouver B.C. and wanted to share it with you. I will post a video of us reading Grappling with the Grumblies soon.
Art in the Garden Project at Atkinson Elementary
First graders in Susan Tims’ class painted a specific pollinator using acrylic paint on 16” square MDO board. Beautiful renditions of bees, moths, butterflies and bats will be hung on both sides of the chain link fence surrounding the pollinator garden at Atkinson Elementary School.
November 2009
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Welcome
This is my first blog post ever, so have patience I am new at this.
On Saturday I had a book launch in Vancouver B. C. with Deborah Miller for our children’s book Grappling with the Grumblies. There was a good crowd of people packed into Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush bookstore. We read the book together acting it out. I will post a video soon. 27 books were sold and signed and I am...