(Featured Image: Revolving Cycle)
Revolving Cycle, Watkins’ 43-foot-long pencil drawing of a tree cycling through the seasons of the year is on view thru January 11th at the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mt. Vernon, IL. View on the artist’s website: melwatkin.com
Three of the artist’s map drawings are now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago. U.S.Army Corp of Engineers Mississippi River Charts #90, 91, and 92. The Newberry houses an amazing collection of maps form ancient times to contemporary. (Acrylic and ink on Mississippi River Navigational Charts, 19.5 x 14inches, 2013)
This month Watkins received an Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects grant to complete, design, and print an artist’s book-in-progress entitled Notebook of Notes. Thoughts, quotes, and sketches, primarily on environmental issues, kept over many years from many sources: readings, podcasts, documentaries, and conversations. On Instagram @melwatkin.