Melora Creager, founder of cello-rocking trio RASPUTINA is among artists
participating in the "OPENING HELEN'S TRUNK - Women, Art & Community"
show.
This is being held:
July 23 - October 15, 2010
at the Farmington Museum at Gateway Park
3041 East Main Street • Farmington, NM

This exhibit features six women artists and a turn of the century trunk
and explores identity, legacy, community and creating art through film,
writing, music, and sculpture.

Creager's piece is the original artwork for Rasputina's 7th full length
album, "Sister Kinderhook" which was just released to excellent critical
response. All the work was hand embroidered by Melora. She'd found the
basic materials in a box of her mother's family keepsakes. The ground is a
half-finished linen, too small for a tablecloth, too big for a
handkerchief. It was her maternal grandmother's and she discovered the
green thread for the leaves she created wadded up in side the linen. She
did the embroidery while mixing the new album in L.A., her new baby by her
side. Melora observes:

  "I love the idea that I'm infiltrating a crass, male dominated business
with my obscure, hand-stiched ideas; that I'm stitching while I'm mixing
at some slick LA recording studio.
   "It's subterfuge and a joke on 'the business'."

The other artists represented in the show are Sarah Teofanov, Uma
Krishnaswami, Liz McIlvaine,Ramona Emerson, and Sarah Cooke.

For more information on this exhibit call Debbie at 505-599-1174
For more information on Rasputina and their new album "Sister Kinderhook"
call Howard at Howlin' Wuelf Media at 215-428-9119 or howlingwuelf@aol.com