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Cornell grousers will be proud of the fact that they knew Trumansburg, NY artist Carol Bloomgarden when she was just an innocent, harmless, and slightly shell-shocked bystander in the blind with Dr. Dirt and the Vicar at a little thing we all like to call, The Duck Massacree in Danby.

See the article at today's Ithaca Journal. An excerpt:

T-burg artist blends words, visuals

By DARISE JEAN-BAPTISTE
Journal Staff

TRUMANSBURG - When viewers tilt their heads or squint their eyes to look at her work, artist Carol Bloomgarden knows she has achieved one of her goals.

“I love the reaction when people realize it's writing,” Bloomgarden, said.

At first glance, the spots on the jaguar in her piece called “Jaguar” could easily be mistaken for just tiny, circular marks on the animal's body. But words from Seneca Indian Sogoyewepha's “Red Jacket's Speech on Religion” make up the many spots, as well as the animal's outline.

Bloomgarden calls her creations “Language Arts” — not to be confused with elementary school curriculums. She combines handwriting, sometimes very small to create shapes within her works with watercolor, monoprint, silk screen and colorgraph techniques.

Unfortunately there are no images with the online version of the article, but the print version has both a nice picture of Carol and another photo of one of her creations.

But Carol's work is on the web, which you can see at http://www.cbgb-arts.com/ . Her web site includes this nice photo of the artist and her inspiration: