The New Local

Happy Here by amy freeth-rice 2024

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I am very happy to be a part of the upcoming term at The New Local- a gallery in downtown Boulder, CO. I dropped off pieces today and it will be hung next week (Memorial Day weekend). It’s been a fun process- last year I wasn’t sure I ever wanted to sell my work again as I took a break from showing people the things I was making. I can’t fully account for this- I was in an art funk or something. But since then I created this website and started my art focused instagram (amyfreethrice) and then I applied to the New Local gallery when they were calling for submissions and was accepted. It kicked me into creativity high gear and I’ve been doing something creative almost every day now for months. I have many ideas about selling my work and plan to build a marketplace on my website asap. It feels good to become unstuck. I credit two books for this unsticking: The Creative Act by Rick Ruben and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. Those two books helped to convince me that my work wants to get made and that it also wants to get sold to nice people who like it. This is one of the images being offered at the New Local as of next week. -amy 5/19/24