2024 Preparing for expansion

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I am cleaning and updating the website in preparation for expansion and more exposure in 2025 to launch a debut in 2026, which will be the 20-year anniversary of the Blessing Doves Project. Imagine that! Who out there in the world has a Blessing Dove? Figuring that out is the next big...

2023 New beginnings

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Post pandemic travel is opening up once again. My Volunteers are out there navigating the globe. Keep your eye on the Instagram feed for the volunteer drops. Soon I will be on my way to Egypt in the fall. This summer I will be casting another full kiln load in preparation for the rest of...

2021 half way and starting to open up

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With the pandemic restrictions lifting, travels plans are in the wind. For now some volunteers have been out and about blessing with doves. Check #blessingdoves Instagram for their locations.  Soon I will start traveling again later this year. For now I am casting another kiln load of doves! 100 hours 100...

Covid lock down 2020

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Oh, Covid-19… oh, travel bands…circling the globe with tiny blessings has surely come to a halt. A time of reflection and re-prioritizing… Making lots of other art in the studio,but imagining a new way to bless the world with little doves… more...

Journal Entry #21 Great Start to 2018

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I took several Colorado State University LEAP Art Entrepreneur students to India for an Arts Collaboration Project with local NGOs for social advocacy and got an opportunity to tour a bit and share some blessing doves in India. Another new development is that there are more volunteers helping to place blessing doves this year. Watch...

Journal Entry #20 – Closing out 2017

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I did make it to Greece with a leg up to Copenhagen. Check out the blessing dove pics. I also was awarded an artist residency in Spain so I got to bless Madrid, Barcelona and surrounding hill villages throughout Spain. Next a volunteer will be taking some doves down to Mexico to bless the wounded...

Journal Entry #19 – Halfway into 2017

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Well the volunteer distribution has started through the blessing doves #hashtag link! Check out the homepage posts. My plan is to give more doves to traveling volunteers to help me spread the doves across the globe. As for myself, I will soon be heading to Greece for a conference and will blessed the land while...