I usually paint on Saturdays but I’ll probably be meeting with Marsha Wooley, a Denver artist, who is in town this week for the annual Collage Art Association conference here in New York.  I’ve interviewed Marsha Wooley last year for ArtNewYorkCity.com – I put a lot of work in that interview which actually have two parts.

Actually, I’m interested in the Paris trip that Marsha conducts through the college she teaches at in Colorado; I’d actually like to go but I don’t think I’m going to have the time or money (one or the other, or both) – and then again, I’d like to think that maybe I can make it happen – 2 weeks in France, part of it painting in Aix and around there ….. that would be a dream of mine, something I’ve wanted to do since I was a teenager and found that Paul Cezanne was my favorite artist.

I’ve always wanted to go to his studio, sorta connect with the energy since it’s contributed so much to me.  But as I age, and know myself better, I realize I’m very different in my artistic sensibilities than the artists I admire; still, I like what I like.

Sure, there are other parts of France that this course goes to – and I’ve only been to Europe once, and only to Paris for 8 days in 1987 (and the only people I had conversations with, were Americans – mostly woman – I found it very difficult to just go to Paris and not speak French at that time – now it may be different, I don’t know).

In my fantasy….. I get to go on this trip for free, blogging it up and raising publicity – maybe just paying for my trip and hotel….do you think I could talk the college into granting me something like that?   Maybe it’s just a pipe dream.  

There’s also the issue of timing – I think this Paris trip happens sometime in May, and so does the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco (although Emetrics happens at the beginning of May) and I’d like to go to Emetrics (and I’m not sure I’ll be able to either).

So there’s a lot of “ifs” here that I need to see if I can bring together – and that’s partly what I’ll talk to Marsha Wooley about Saturday (if it does not get rescheduled - it seems to be our pattern that meetings get shifted around a lot – last time she was in NY, we rescheduled 4 times).

And then, maybe I’ll take in an opening or two – so that’s what I’ve got on my agenda for Saturday.