PLUM, located in the heart of historic Shepherdstown, WV, features handmade jewelry and accessories, also wall art. Imagine a brick-and-mortar Etsy. I loved PLUM as soon as I stepped in the door, it looks and feels like it belongs in San Francisco – a town near and dear to my heart.
And if you haven’t been to Shepherdstown, it’s worth the trip. It’s a very creative, attractive, tiny college town that reminds me of so many cool places that I’ve been. You’ll find it is less than a 2 hour drive from Washington DC.
My work The Journey is now available through PLUM (above the black & white photographs). The pieces are being sold individually for $150, you can buy 2 or more for $125 each or the full set of 9 is being offered for $925. Please contact PLUM directly to purchase: 304-876-2200
Cari Aliveto Rosen, designer and owner of PLUM, crafts one of a kind sterling silver pieces completely by hand. She specializes in hand stamped jewelry, which gives clients an opportunity to customize their jewelry.
I love the set of earrings on the right, the miniature barrels have an industrial feel, reminding me of some type of pipe fittings. I imagine them feeling smooth and solid to the touch, with a nice weight to them.
PLUM also features the architectural photography of David Rosen. David captures the beautiful historic buildings of Shepherdstown, then performs magic on the photos to create one of a kind works of art.
I like David’s art because of the intense, saturated colors. Also, many of his pieces have these otherworldly technicolor clouds that seem to reflect the storms of excitement and passion I find inside myself.
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Today’s Outing, Polishing the Lamp & New Inspiration
by Latifah on January 13, 2012
Today I am taking the set “The Journey” to show a boutique, hoping they will show my work. I’ll let you know how that goes. Also, I am going to The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in Frederick, MD to scope out their gallery spaces – I am going to submit a proposal for a solo show and they suggest that the artist ‘choose’ their gallery (of course they will actually decide) and so I want to take measurements and some pictures and figure out what size I might like to work with in those spaces.
I feel newly committed to ‘polishing the lamp’, to do whatever I have to do to get back in the flow of the art. I feel so much happier, richer, more YES when I do.
Also, I came across a recent obituary for Helen Frankenthaler – !! – An Abstract Expressionist painter that I had never even heard of before and whose work feels like mine (at least to me). I feel newly inspired to paint on raw canvas, in addition to the heavily layered mixed media pieces that I have been concentrating on. I used to do diluted acrylic washes onto loose, unprimed canvas a few years back, but eventually stopped b/c I didn’t know how to frame them and the art sat dormant in storage forever. I now feel the opening to A) stretch them onto bars after painting them and/or B) learn how to frame art properly, i.e. put them under glass (having someone else frame them at the size I’m looking at is prohibitive). And, I really want to learn all about Helen and her art.
I want to comb through the ‘local museums’ – all the ones that I can easily see in a day or perhaps a weekend. (I did mention that I live ridiculously far out and away from any major city didn’t I?) I want to see Helen’s work in person, I want to drink her art in. I also want to find some of Jackson Pollack’s art. They both painted on raw canvas and then found a way to frame and hang their works. I really want to learn about this…
I have to run now, busy day – I hope you have a great weekend!!
PS – feel free to email me or to comment here. I received a lovely email from someone I connected with on Twitter, I was happy to hear how my work and writings have inspired her. Love to hear from you!
The artwork is mine, from 2010 sometime. It is postcard size, acrylic over raw canvas, apparently I called it “The Dollop”.
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