Meet Your 2023 'Hearts in San Francisco'
SFist, Joe Kukura, February 2023
Labyrinthine Heart
SF’s annual display of giant Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th year, and here’s your Hearts of SF class of 2023, which will remain at the Ferry Building through February 28.
Artis Interview with wendy ackrell
Canvas Rebel, February 2023
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Wendy Ackrell a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
The older I get, the more I’ve found that the most consequential work I do is creating public art. I aspire to do projects that bring people joy, delight, solace, self-recognition… Read more.
How to see Marin artworks online and in person
Marin Independent Journal, February 2023
"Why I Am Not a Poet"
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley
SF Beautiful - Muni Art 2020
The 2020 Muni Art Project theme, “Hidden Gems of San Francisco” is the fifth year that the The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), San Francisco Beautiful and The Poetry Society of America (sponsors of Poetry in Motion®) have collaborated to bring art and poetry to Muni commuters.
Review: February 13 - 17, 2019 LA Art Week
Kathy Leonardo, LA Art Party, February 2019
LA Art Week began on Wednesday, February 13, 2019.
It was a rainy day...an unusual occurrence in La La Land. However, it did not stop me (or any other writers/collectors for that matter) from getting up early to cover new exhibitions and art fairs happening during a busy week... Read more
Artist Interview with Wendy Ackrell
Jessica Molnar, Odd Duck Press, December 2018
Where in the world are you located? What is it like being an artist there?
Ever since I visited San Francisco as a child, I dreamt of moving here one day and, after graduating from college, I did just that. It was a fantasyland to me even then, with its vertiginous hills scattered with twinkling lights in the deepening dark… Read more
Meet Local Fiber Artist and Painter Wendy Ackrell
ImagiKnit,San Francisco, January 2017
What was your journey to creating woolen sculptures?
The first pieces I made were in 2009 - the wool branches that I wrap in both natural and extremely vibrant yarns.
I was in the woods of Sonoma and started to gather large branches from the forest floor. A week of quiet and a huge skein of yarn led to the creation of my first woolen branches. Making them is second nature now and one of the most meditative things in the world to me… Read more