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Buddha Statue
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Michelle Boyd is a multi-disciplinary artist, currently working digitally, writing computer programs to manipulate geometry and color. For Michelle, creating art is a continual process of asking the question “what happens if…”
 
Michelle asks and answers that question a lot in her current wobbly circle series. These are circles that she programed the computer to draw so they don’t look like perfect circles. Then she wrote other programs to rotate them, scale them, stack them, draw lines between nested wobbly circles. These circles show up in printed artwork and have been laser cut in wood and cast in ceramics, with more to come.
 
Something Michelle likes about working digitally is the ability to iterate a design, to keep changing colors or shapes until the result is what she wants; to explore many different ideas and create intricate works of art.
Michelle Boyd
Sept.9th - Dec. 9th, 2024 
Reception Sunday, September 15
3:00 til 6:00pm.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

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Patt is local—born in San Francisco and raised on the Peninsula. She taught mostly middle school English/Language Arts and Health Education in Belmont for 35 years, and though her flair for color aways showed, she never considered herself artistic. Patt became a knitter, then a weaver after moving to the coast in 1999. Experiencing two summers of heavy coastal fog, she realized she needed “indoor sports” to combat the fog. She took a few weaving classes and many knitting technique workshops, learned ice dyeing one afternoon, and is self-taught in jewelry design. She creates unusual pieces and prefers being separate from the crowd rather than part of it. Her works are one of a kind. When Patt visited Czechia, she discovered their centuries-old family-run glass bead factories. Czechia has a special place in her heart, and she loves designing new pieces using the beautiful beads she brought home. After retiring from teaching and becoming a textile and jewelry artist, she realized artists can become very isolated. Patt started a group called Colony of Coastside Artists in Feb, 2010, to offer everyone a chance to share their projects, network, and socialize with other artists. Prior to 2020, CoCA met monthly, and has annually sponsored Open Studios in November, which is available to all coastside artists.
Patt is excited to be one of Bamboo’s Artists-in-Residence from September 8 until December, 2024. Visitors can see her work any time the shop is open.

Patt can be contacted via email—pattsheldon@gmail.com or phone: 650-714-0560.
website: pattsheldon.com 
Payments can be made through Venmo’s QR code at Bamboo or using @Patt-Sheldon and through PayPal using “friends and family” and her email address and Bamboo takes cash and checks.
Patt Sheldon
Sept.1st - Dec. 9th, 2024

Reception Sunday, September 15
3:00 til 6:00pm.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

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