My dress was juried into the 9th Annual Frances N. Roddy Open Competition at the Concord Art Association. The opening reception is this Thursday, September 11th, from 6-8 pm. The show runs from September 11-October 12, 2008. The juror was Pamela Clark Cochrane, an independent curator and former director/owner, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA.I found the dress last April at our local semi-annual swap and grabbed it not knowing exactly what I was going to do with it. The kids loved it, and I kept it hanging in the breezeway where I work and have my supplies. Finally, I needed something to submit to the Roddy competition, and decided to embellish it with leftover roses. Of course I needed jewelry, and my fake pearls just didn't seem right, so I took some of my mini-assemblages and strung them together with waxed thread. I mended the rip in the tulle with more of the same thread and proceeded to write on the satin underskirt with indelible black ink. Initially I wanted to cover the entire skirt with writing, but I underestimated the fullness of the skirt, and ran out of time. Later I'll go in and copy down some of the writing to put excerpts here for people to read.
It is hanging on a pink satin covered hanger. I used more roses to hold the dress shoulders on the hanger. The people hanging the show hung it from the ceiling, and it spins with the movement of air around it. Very magical in the setting.
