Featured Guest on This Week's Voice From the Valley on Banff Park Radio

Image by Tiffany Teske

This little cutie above is my friend's daughter, Fleur. Isn't she sweet? She was listening to tunes on her headphones. I couldn't help but think of using this as an illustration to share that I will be featured on the Banff Park Radio program, Voices From the Valley (thanks, Michelle!). Host Camara Miller interviewed me about my photography and other creative endeavors. I believe the program starts airing on Sunday, March 28th at 7 PM. It will also air on Monday, March 29th at 1 PM and Wednesday, March 31st at 9 AM. After that it will be podcast. To listen live or to access the podcast got to Park Radio and follow the links.

Last Class (Until May...)

Memories of Winter in Childhood by Tiffany Teske

Tonight was the last class in the memoir course I have been taking at the Banff Public Library. It has been a fabulous experience! I am very impressed with the knowledge and teaching skills of our teacher, Monica Meneghetti. She is a local writer who has taught this class before. I have always written, but had never tried memoir, and I am so glad that I decided to attend this class. What blows my mind is that the library covers the cost of these classes in their programming budget, so I feel I have been given a gift to have learned so much for FREE! The six week class allowed us to create a first draft of a piece. Mine is about the 6 hours I labored while giving birth to my daughter. It has been very moving to write and is very special to me. It is no where near finished, but I will work on it a bit in coming weeks, and then I plan to take the second part of the course, which is 4 weeks long, and starts in early May. I may not make it to all the classes, since I am due to give birth to another daughter in early June, and there is a vacation week in there, but I am looking forward to learning as much as I can.

One of the highlights of the class, besides meeting several local people whom I have passed in town, but had never met, was listening to a radio program that Monica brought in about memory. I usually work on several photography and mixed media series at once and memory is always the unifying theme in at least one. I love to learn about memory. If you are interested in listening to the program is it available on the Radio Lab website. It is called Memory and Forgetting.

Update on Wanderlust at D'OMMA Gallery

RESPITE

Well, I guess I am a bit behind because while I had been posting each piece in my Wanderlust Series to my online Create A Day group, I was not posting them here. So, in an effort to blog a bit more about our recent visit to Ottawa, where I helped to hang the Wanderlust show at the D'OMMA Gallery I have decided to post the other eight pieces in the show. I was interviewed by Mitchell Caplan for the CHUO-FM89 show Click Here on Tuesday, which went really well. I am hoping I will be able to post the audio file here but am waiting to find that out. Anyway, please grab a cup of joe and enjoy my newest mixed media work. It is my hope that you will be able to view each piece and to travel to another place.

ROAD TRIP

SEE
I added some elements to this piece after I photographed it, including a miniature ace of heart playing card, and some stones.

FLY

GO FLY AWAY HOME

LONG DISTANCE ROMANCE

METAMORPHOSIS

NEWEST MEMBER
I added two antique silver dessert forks to the bottom lower left of this piece, one for an adult and one for a child.

I will be rephotographing some of these images when I get them back from the show.