CAP Artist Registry

elisearts@gmail.com
http://www.kitschensinkithaca.com

I have always been an artist, but I’ve always thought I should be doing other things, as if it was a dirty little obsession I was hiding. I worked on flirtation studies in High School, but I did take art classes. Then I studied English Literature and worked as an editor and proofreader for an academic publisher for a decade. In the next decade, I worked on my culinary, decorating, and mothering skills while freelance editing and mural painting in my free time.

To get out of the house part-time, I started working at the local public television and radio station. Before I knew it, I was managing the televised and online auctions and getting to know wonderful artists in a 21 county area. This became a 70 hour a week diversion that swallowed me whole for several years. Just as I was burning out, I was offered a job by a smart, wonderful businesswoman with her own shop where she made soap, and I did dishes, and we represented the art of hundreds of local artists and craftspeople in a beautiful old timberframe barn by a small lake, while also tending an organic garden and a free range chicken flock. It was heavenly, but Ithaca beckoned.

So I picked up roots and decided I could make a go of it myself, having learned to love the concept in practice. I was led to the little art garage that I now make my artistic and spiritual center, and couldn’t be more ecstatic.