so delicious words and i wish i could tell you the number because i can't remember but it's over twenty years so that is a wonderful tradition that we have going and i hope it continues that we had in starting this goes back when we first moved in because this is snowflake bentleys homestead and and his time sunday afternoons he had these music parties in the parlor with all his friends and we thought when we built this it might be nice to continue that tradition aside from just having a be my work on display have some community of them so that's how we got this idea and then i thought well  somebody else's work other than mine we will bring in people who are writers poets storytellers and then people who are wonderful cooks and so we came up with the title delicious words and it has been so lovely every year that the whole personality of the event is so different and i know in the audience alumni so if my alumni people cooks writers artists stand up so we can see who you migration and when she read the poems last year people said oh i think you should publish the  book and it's her work is wonderful and to hear her read in that wonderful southern accent just in the hands of the text so there are all of the fifteen images that i have done water migration are here and all of the poems that she wrote looking at these pieces are here and the research she did it's not as if she just looked at pictures and thought oh this is pretty she did research about the history about the native americans about the geology about the flow of water so i think you'll find it informative as well as entertaining so there are books in the back if your interest the next event that will go on here is open studio and that small morrow weekend and that is a big state of them over two hundred fifty artists will have their studios open mine will be you get to go up stairs and see how i work it'll actually be cleaned up and you can move around but in the area there will be twenty one artists all participating in open studio and at the groupie gallery in jericho you'll see a sample of everyone's work you can get your mat and then go out and enjoy saturday and sunday going around the area it's a wonderful that so that is sort of public announcement anybody else have anything community wise that they want to men then i think i'll explain a little bit about the order i have my present jurors introduce themselves we will start with an explanation by irene she will also take on the role of sally with who is not here who will explain a little bit about the artwork we will then go right into liz nels presentation we will break for a wonderful dessert by kim toffee in tea and then the second half is john turner so i think if you would hold your applause to the end everyone's presentation it just creates a very nice atmosphere rather than intern at the polls when you think that they have this is why i asked her last week i said sally really think you're going to be just tell everyone around somewhere between ohio and missouri we're not sure they're on their way to arkansas and eventually her because the party going to miss his or her interaction fell you know into his life and everything that has what made painting with her so much fun we do you think we knew that she wasn't going to be here for this presentation dianne first of all for giving us this opportunity presented to our work and courage just to work in oils outside and get work done for a dick with a festival and that is actually where sally and i started to pay in boyle's outside so at any rate so that was that was nice for us to get that encouragement b s i and warmer weather we always draw most i think most people who work in other mediums beside or other things besides to do you do draw the weather you would do sketches for your you know be sure how ideas or whatever were no different we just sort of decided that clay was our canvas and so we designed to be decorated and painted on those things we both have backgrounds in art and  abstract painting on flat surfaces along with drawing lines on the vertical surfaces thanking the use of decorating glazes as if they were water colors i have a john pike plastic palette box with a cover meant for water colors i was able to lay out and you can see the idea that she was using figures and doing painting on clay only some of the color survived the firing next so in this case probably didn't start out like this ok now she says next came patterns drawn with wax resist and then sprayed the result was a more expressive negative line that i could have achieved with a positive line all this time i took workshops from clay people in our classes from painters i learned something valuable from everyone in the mid sixty's i treated myself to a three credit summer drawing course from head or before that i took watercolor painting from barbers to mail and barbara wagner i took a pastel question janine line and then i would draw with friends and always take a sketchbook with me when i tr sell sally has certainly done a lot of to the work before or why she worked in clay as far as my background goes that difference and sally's i have been literally painting and playing with clay since high school and i was just my absolute love was our i minored in art in college i got a degree in secondary education i taught art in local schools k through twelve for a number of years and then i headed out to california and went back to college and there i started to paint and it was at the time where abstract expressionism which was the thing and we took huge large sheets of and we do that over and over and over again with the primary colors place white and black on the can so it's a pie pans on the floor kron around doing these giant things and then when the teacher thought we were a little better he actually g hope the upshot of this is that i didn't really get any kind of formal training in color theory light and not much with composition or whatever it new idea here was to do your own thing to really paint with a lot of energy and that is one thing i did learn is to pay for energy makes you looser for sure and at that time i also started to learn how  clay so about twenty four or five years ago after our second daughter was born i wanted to start a business but i really felt that it would be more successful doing  working with clay selling pottery and painting how i was able to produce more work i wasn't thinking i was going to sell these two minute paintings very well so you know i also like sally felt that it was a perfect canvas to decorate i would use slips and stains and i millipede date the surface with line drawings graffito and example when i first started because i still love when you're done but that was a learning experience so let's see where do we go from there i also experimented with different firing techniques which would give me a  very interesting service as well so i want time was told that i paint with fire you know it's a little bit of a stretch there but the idea is you do you color your services and you make them interesting and alive do you choose the physical demands of pottery and this is true for sally as well we've both felt that we needed to kind of get away from doing just clay work and because of this  experience with painting outside that social aspect of it being in your studio alone is is very isolating but planner boy that's a church social event you get to be outside in the sun and catch a paint i use that as  an opportunity to focus on the basics on composition design and light and color color theory all those kinds of  things this is where we are now i hope to get back to doing my larger abstract work at some point in time but i hope i've taken something with me by you know trying to be very  will we try to at any rate as for instance those two river scenes on the top there in the two rivers scenes here from the exact we were standing literally shoulder to shoulder next to each other and the result is quite different and so that's always really interesting to see how we are the same and yet we're different and we certainly bounce off each other back to forth with ideas there's a couple of other ones like that hey bale ones the middle hay bale there this born were painted from the exact same location all the other ones we painted together we were together when they were painted let's put it this way but at times especially in the winter we used  photographs so i'll tell you one quick story is that to wrap it up is we painted a workshop with a candy bar was a wonderful painter we liked her very very much but she didn't get us you know expertise said but in your in your defense she said you did and you kept on task the whole time so we really did see we finished painting this so even though we laugh and talk and are silly as can be when we  do our work that's where we are now hopefully we can continue to paint a lot longer we've been paid we've been we've known each other for a really long time so as i said we do know how to ignore each other which is which is really helpful to you we actually have done a couple projects together everybody thank you so much for coming my name is liz now and i'm going to be reading to you from my book called what i found and you've made a peeked at them on the tables already this book is based on objects that i found as i was clearing out my mother's things i'm sure mom had been so ill before she died that we had turned our all of our focus our attention on her health and her comfort in those years but when she was gone the objects took us further back into those years of health and energy and creativity and so it's been a lovely journey with my mom this book i've brought some copies of the book and another couple of albums that i've worked on and put together that you can look at during the break the intermission please take a little card i've got some really jazzy little cards there you're welcome to take one in case you ever have a question or wanted to ask me something or share something i'll be handing out some treasure boxes for you to look at just before mission and before the end of the reading some of you have noticed over here that i will suitcase full so those will be coming soon as part of the show special thanks to diane for this wonderful opportunity and thanks to all of you for being here and supporting this great cause so the first piece that i'm going to read kind of gives you a little bit of context about my family and my  junk stuff crap things needing to be dealt with which no one wants to deal with piles dad calls it pilot project pilot here pilot there those accumulated objects that form our daily lives the term group is one of those words that sounds just like what it means a german term or maybe swedish way bush when i began the process setting out at mom and dad's after mom died i made some important discoveries most importantly i realized that group will stay where it is especially if there's something more interesting to be done with dad such as watching the tigers or driving to the orchard we will get to the group sooner or later and these objects actually show how mom and dad live their lives i realized that i was not really dealing with grooved i was on a treasure hunt each item represented aspects of my parents lives and therefore aspects of my own life values hopes dreams habits all were there in the small or large group piles i found the biggest gift of course is to be able to ask dad about these things to laugh over some to hang on to some because this might be useful i honestly nine times out of ten dad would be right someone could use that examples are the four or five electra locks a vacuum cleaners used for extra parts or for an extra when someone's vacuum cleaner broke down the multiple toaster ovens taken up north each year so everyone's cottage had one we created the fun of door prizes at family gatherings where we all looked over objects and selected what we wanted to have then letting the rest go this seems an amiable approach to the task of dividing up household goods dad loves knowing what the kids want and who was taken what mom would have called those objects white elephants a phrase that was always said with  laugh another bonus of all this is that we were able to go about this process loli not having to bring in the dumpsters and empty house quickly like some folks do we all know that we will have to clear the house someday but right now it's all treasure and full of stories that we love the sounds of laughter the shared stories that we begin with do you remember the conjuring up of my right there with us in the garage all add up to the real treasure of family time this next one is called no it's and what i found were no it's everywhere my mother's house has notes everywhere she wrote them on scraps of paper or index cards or later on posted notes and invention she loved mostly she pointed out things she did not want us to mess or knowledge she wanted to be sure she passed on to us or sometimes details she didn't want to forget herself some of my favorites are if you are cleaning out this dresser don't forget to look in the secret drawer notice the little girl woven this towel wedding gift nineteen forty six written in sharpie on the bottom of a blue pottery bowl that she never used a large bag of christmas one i love that one you just have to wonder there are no it's telling who originally owned the silver dishes comb and brush set piece of furniture there are notes saying who should get certain things such as violin belonging to hiram partially go to college or crash should go to miriam or liz collects postcards so these should go to her there are sticky notes stuck in the closets identifying what's inside the band boxes on the shelves because of course one would not want to open each box to find say winter hats in her desk i found a box maybe from the one nine hundred fifty s of paneled know what's with princess notes printed on the side of the box on the top of the box mom had written in pencil these envelopes are too small for inside are many too small envelopes no cards are left i wonder who this note is for is it for herself to remember not to is it for me to understand that in the future i wonder what princess notes were used and in the drawer of the buff a we found several small ziploc bags with pieces of broken furniture each with a note saying where it came from so repairs could be made the ultimate note is one on a piece of decorative molding that says i haven't the v here's the balding here's the no i just love it in my dear come in come in  ok the next one is called a happy childhood and what i found were photos of myself all through childhood photographs were some of the first items i sorted so that the gems would not be discarded without time to look and remember too numerous to save i have enjoyed sorting them and putting together a couple of albums pages of the ones i like best i made ziploc bags for my siblings and cousin and i have discarded quite a few being the oldest i found dozens and dozens of photos of me especially in the fourteen months before my sister marcia was born so there are also many of the two of us and then as other children came along a few some of these photos made by professional photographers were in frames others made with the argosy three camera dad bought at the were snapshots in albums or in envelopes a lot of the time mom had labeled these with name and date fortunately for us as we can always tell now which baby is which the really important revelation of these photos is seeing clearly that i had a happy childhood i was dearly loved my parents took great care of me i knew this of course but really observe it in the photos anyone would see it even if they didn't know us mom's beautiful and these photos lovely smile outfits that are carefully put together children dressed up some photos were being sent to dad in germany and he must have loved them mom looks so happy to be a mom just what she  kid this next one is called to be filed found this is a bit of a tongue twister file drawers filled with full file folders the idea of writing about my mother's files is nearly paralyzing in the house were to forge or file cabinets one two drawer cabinet desk drawers and boxes that hold additional files that's ten regular file drawers plus and these drawers are full of individual files folders so one drawer time say one hundred file folders times ten total drawers plus the others you do the math my involvement with the files became intimate when i worked on clearing the study to make room for a bedroom for my brother the great task was moving the roll top desk secondary was moving to file cabinets and so the lure of my mother's handwriting pulled me into her world a world of ideas and resources records goals dreams hopes plans in short a life what happened over the years of filing was that the drawers got full folders the folders and many duplicate folders appeared the individual drawers became crammed with categories that overlapped pretty much every drawer had one or more folders marked to be filed and one of my favorites was marked read and decide most of the folders had writing on both sides of the tab and some had labels over the writing anybody recognize that folders were used over and over again when i finally began clearing out the drawers and tossing folders into recycle bins dad had a hard time letting go of them those are still good a lot of wear in them yet but we had to let some of them go i confess though that i went back into the recycle bins and cut off some of the tabs to save in mom's handwriting they are a little titles for her wide variety of interests and her projects and  my favorites are memory joggers health general ladies missionary society reading lenore palm and farm magazines order poetry food for the spirit non recipes to file nine hundred sixty eight watercolor ideas food for the soul read and decide recipes to try bills paid one nine hundred seventy seven diaries and journals family scrapbook diet snacks gardens party games pictures arrangements pictures frames cleaning h antiques hours family antiques care of writer's group laundry and to be filed there are several of these and one is called shoe box storage i'm not sure if any of you have this as well but i found many many many shoe boxes labeled in mom's handwriting is a partial list of the shoe boxes birthday cake decorations howard's service momentos seashells birch bark and pine cone finger bowl baby shoes small wine glasses stem shot seize clippings lemonade glasses broken tea cups and saucers to save for planters and small boxes one of my favorite shoe boxes was labeled desk j i saved this for a very long time thinking it just might contain some very cool treasure or some personal revelations about mom so on the right day my sister and dad and i opened it and after all this time it was exactly what mom said it would be desk junk what you would dump out of a junk drawer because you didn't have time to look at it right now here's a partial list of desk junk a pull chain extension weird scissors with a hook tip slightly rusted tweezers a broken pretty dish one ace of hearts a clay bird on a pin blue paper ribbon a bunch of big pen tops guilty about any of these things out there are three marbles one green dye and several pencil stubs ok this one is called gifts it's another bit of a list but a lot of these things ended up being lists in this book just because the lists were so interesting to me in their variety this one is this one i found things my mother gave me that i did not know i needed this is a partial list of things found in my own home you'll recognize a lot divider a drawer divider trays those rubbermaid ones or box tops covered in context paper easy to find what i want in my drawers and acrylic clipboard with my name engraved on it i used it for every show i did it never got lost in the theater vermont souvenir to pick holder suitable for putting on the table used frequently when we're eating sweet corn a kleenex box holder shaped like a pile of books i always like to look at it sitting on a potato spoon brought from germany stainless steel and the perfect size for many foods in and dish into potatoes we use it several times a week to letter openers nicely decorative and use frequently well more often in the past when we actually wrote letters how we decorations including the w we still hang on most every year a set of steak knives with plastic handles that can go into the dishwasher used daily t v tables a snack trays with in a nice wo items and baby car and now i'm going to talk about the whitman's sampler some of you notice that's what i found for candy boxes as a child i thought the whitman sample or the height of  chic the large yellow box with the map on the inside cover allowed me to select the tastiest chocolates cherry cordials and orange creams and to avoid the carmel's that stuck in my teeth in an unpleasant way still a treasure hunt but with that dandy map we hardly ever had these exotic boxes of chocolates or a rare treat sometimes at christmas from sunday school we'd get a tiny box all to ourselves or at home a big box to share at christmas or valentine's day my mom told a story of a poor family from her childhood the little girl treasur brown pleaded paper that cupped the chocolates making tea that perhaps being careful not to squish them i wonder who ate those chocolates and left the little girl with the pa did she get to eat any at all this was a story about appreciating what we have and not ever being really poor all these years later i've counted nine whitman sampler boxes that i've saved i bought the special christmas tin box each year for my students they had the chocolates i kept the tins shiny and inviting each year a new design perfect for holding photos letters christmas gift tags some have to go they will live out another life in the theater proper perhaps turned into a treasure chests or boxes of say so at this point i am now going to hand out some of these whitman sampler boxes for your perusal and will take a few minutes to look at them you mom and dad had habits that i seem to appreciate more as i get older i remember that almost every week on sunday after church we went to visit one or the other set of grandparents or to any  ann arbor or manchester or howell the car full of kids singing build go out or i've got sixpence or someone's in the kitchen with dinah i don't know if we had dinner at home or probably we went there for dinner a classic new meal with meat and potatoes did we stay in our church clothes or change in the play clothes we went to grandma hobbs most often because she was alone and we helped with gardening fixing things painting knowing our cousins were there sometimes too when relatives came to our house part of the fun was having a special meal together we might still be in our dress up clothes from church mom use nice tablecloths how did she find time to start in ireland and tablecloths and now the good dishes the silverware she'd say what's the point of having these lovely things if we never use them i also recall when a piece was broken she said that's too precious to be broken it's too precious for us to have not that she liked something being broken mind you but she was more into enjoying these things than looking at them in a glass case we had lots of family celebrations at holiday time or birthdays i remember how special we felt when we had a birthday cake made in layers presented on the glass that seems so exotic and fancy i think now that whatever the reality of every sunday really was the idea of being with relatives weekly has informed choices my own family has made going to cry because my other family here we drove from vermont then later flew to michigan to be with family more frequently than some might vacation meant family visits it helps that we like our families and for over twenty years we had the tradition of east coast thanksgivings with my cousin susan's family which we always look forward to we also have a longstanding sunday supper with our close friends paul and barbara or right back to our vermont family and when our children come home they make getting together a priority it's always sunday supper with palm bar and then of course there are the charleville ludington family reunions going on for fifteen years now mom and dad wanted this summertime gathering to honor their fiftieth wedding anniversary and for our kids we always go to charlotte boyd every the joy of being together in funky cottages gathering around picnic tables with mom's collection of picnic table cloths is another way that being together has a stamp as stablished family ties and close connections i am grateful for these values that mom and dad demonstrated regularly during our lifetime together actions speak louder than i went looking for the collection of moms writing for possible cookie love stories cookie love is a book dad and i wrote together i did not find stories about cookies but i did find mom the glimpses of her childhood in tender simple stories my easter basket or peepers in the parlor and some pages i included about sad times or questioning herself as a parent these are all so resonate with me i have turned into my mother and if we all turn into our mothers so be it what a wonderful person she is by exploring of her life is yet another gift from to me in the category of things mom gave me that i did not know i needed i am just like my mom i push people for stories i collect stuff i have many journals some finished some not i spread art and craft stuff all over i have a library of books i write i love beautiful things i enjoy an organized family celebrations i make up projects for myself i dream and i hope i know that i will continue to find treasures and gifts from my mother for the rest of my life i have loved spending time with mom and making discoveries about myself along thank you thank you welcome a welcome to delicious thank you so much to diane for this opportunity and i'm going to say right off the bat i have a really sore throat so unfortunately the hopefully i'll be able to make it through this  interpretive a piece of music of providing all that information of who played what the new usually something from the artists themselves about the intent of the music to them as i've been i quartets and the original version of hard day's night on vinyl which if i had thrown it at someone it probably would have killed them because it weighs about one hundred pounds and most recently i went on to or i was a roadie in the early variety of music and including lee or unfortunately anyway a ton of these tunnels old vinyl records so today i'm going to share the actual liner notes to one of my art the rise of the digitization of music has marginalized their use and influence chipping away at their once pivotal role within the music listening in the buying experience i think romantic it's ornate and it almost has a shakespearean quality to it and they're important i think their own art form and often out on themselves so to begin with let's read what oscar peterson said about nelson riddle on this album he said i believe that every performing artist retains an innate respect and appreciation for public acclaim he subconsciously and dedicatedly reveres any accolades that he receives from model other artists in his particular field i hold this album in great respect not only for the above mentioned reasons but also because it represents to me a very definitive challenge in a most musical sense the manner in which  rather than accompanying the trio joined us in effect and if anything made the orchestra a part of us to me as if unama non i regard this particular type of writing as a huge challenge that to my hearing in the past has very seldom been met and it even fewer times surmounted to merely supply a harmonic question is not enough the arrange a must in the first instance know the soloist so well that he is able to get inside of the musical shapes and patterns that the soloist develops and help not only to define them but also to add to the color balance as witness to this recommend specifically the track as someday my prince will com the control of the moving background and the sensitive way in which it rises and falls with the of my lines to me is the best example of the great understanding that nelson has of what i attempt to do from a solo standpoint i consider it a great privilege to have been afforded the opportunity to record with a talent such as nelson riddle i know that i will always consider this particular lp as an important landmark in my record korea and i sincerely hope that the listeners agree with me and my feelings about this album and nelson riddle replies working with oscar on this album has been the one of the rare musical treats of my career his impeccable taste and his sharply honed musicianship ensured the old phrase of never a dull moment musically when contemplating the prospect of a piano album i tried to lay my hands on all kestrel combination that would be rewarding instrumental and still provide a seasoned musical insights and the clear focus of good taste and style and both are sufficiently gifted to support and elaborate the most an audience he can speak in the compass of intimacy with the innate tact of good poet he has a lucid imagination that embellish is the slender thread of a song with  delicate vigor and he can summon the most severe of keyboard disciplines that required to expose with the necessary equilibrium of intellect and passion compelling lines of a back world of instrumental voices with all their distinctive combos blended into an insolvable that must be at once transparent and homogeneous his is also the world of variations on a theme of fresh approaches to familia tunes in the opinion of frank sinatra and nearly playlist guide in such matters riddle is the best musician now practicing the mis declares nelson is the greatest arranger in the world a very clever musician and i have the highest respect for him nothing ever ruffles him there's a great  somehow to the music he creates create that's the key word for riddle is one of the few genuine innovators in modern orchestration his freshness and original shine abundantly in the present program his settings for pietersen superbe solos are based as he notes elsewhere in the program comments on a basic orchestra of provide a handsome framework for the piano and project with great precision riddles concept for the specific treatment of each song trumpet trombone and saxophone as well as violin voicings that supplement the basic wind and low string colors when they are required to evoke just the right scent to a slow the right tension  the right ry accent and throughout riddle has exposed the trio osco ray brown and thigh and playing alone this equitable interplay of trio and orchestra provides a delightful shift in sonic wait there's not enough space here to remark the many treats in the scores nor to dwell upon peterson's sensitive and romantic but muscular probings into the thoughtfully selected range of melodies however one should take note of the way in which judy treatment of an old tune and the way peterson adds his own whole hearted and witty sketch of our old mid thirty's girlfriend amplifies the approach of the arrangement with equal perfection but it is the creative partnership of two great artists and someday my prince will come that provides the highest moment in the program it is a  states the once upon a time thing with only percussion a company five penn does not have four and it only sounds that way as oscar plays the melody all the old  tune goes out of the window the prince is quite a chorus by chorus riddle's mastery of coloristic devices his subtle control of mountain but never overweight tension and isn't tense focus on impulse bring to the peace entirely unexpected warm and excitement and overall peterson solo lines enhan and taken over the turntable for six million consecutive playings at diminuendo in the high strings rounds out this super melding of concept feeling and