Mosquito Repellent Scarves?

Black and White stripes seem to be nature’s best defense against blood-sucking insects.  At least that’s what this national geographic article says – zebras’ stripes confuse and scramble the vision of horseflies, protecting them from those nasty suckers.

Hand printed silk scarves for the Chrysler Art Museum Store

Is it too much of a reach then to believe that the same could be true for black and white stripes’ ability to scramble the vision of other blood-sucking insects, like mosquitoes perhaps?

I’ve found a new selling point for my striped scarves.  Especially for the audience at next week’s ACC St. Paul Show – isn’t the mosquito the De facto MN state bird?  Buy a scarf and skip the smelly insect spray repellent!

First Wholesale Order from the ACC Baltimore Show Finished!

These scarves along with the pillows below will be on their way to The Chrysler Museum of Art’s museum store soon and will be available in the store for the Museum’s grand re-opening (after renovation) in May.  This museum store in Norfolk, VA is the first store on the east coast to carry my artwork – black and white patterned scarves and pillows.

Hand-printed pillows for the Chrysler Museum order.

Booth #1023 American Craft Council St. Paul Show, April 11-13, RiverCentre

Gearing up for round two….Next week is the ACC Show in St. Paul and I’ll have some similar scarves and pillows available in my booth at that show.  After making it through the steep learning curve of the Baltimore show, and having some time to recover, I feel much more relaxed and ready for St. Paul.

My pallet with booth and art will be delivered again by Art in Motion, and it’s really comforting to know we’ll have help and support from our family and good friends that live in the area.  It’s familiar territory and a sort of homecoming for Barbara since she lived there for 21 years before moving to CO.  We’re looking forward to seeing our many friends and family in MN next week!  My booth #1023 is at the waaaaay far back left hand corner of the show floor, so please come visit us there if you can make it to the show.

Another Show this month at Directions Gallery, CSU Visual Arts bldg. in Fort Collins

Gilhooly, Hanna, and Martell – a group show of 3 CSU MFA Graduates opened this week in the Directions Gallery at the Visual Arts building on the CSU campus.  I finished 2 new dye drawing pieces that are included in this show, along with several new book sculptures by Christy Martell and work from the Bloomers series by Barbara Gilhooly.  The show is open through the end of April.

“Grand Central”, Dye Drawing (Dyes on Pimatex Cotton, gallery wrapped around canvas covered stretcher frame), 26″x34″, ©2014 Ayn Hanna

But wait, there’s more….

There are some other exciting new developments – new doors opening, possibilities presenting themselves, discussions in progress – all as a result of work I’ve done to put myself “out there” and exhibit at the ACC shows this year.  These are the evidence of why I feel doing the Baltimore show was a success, even though I didn’t make a direct profit on the show.  I’ll dish on these new developments in my next post.