OhNoDoom Grand Opening!

Where have I been? Well, I have been super busy working on my new gallery venture. If you haven't heard, I have joined the OhNo!doom Collective and last night we opened our brand new gallery. It took us 3 months to create the space but we are very happy with the outcome. Here are some photos of our place and our packed grand opening / Rock the Future exhibit!

The Doomers: Max, Jordan, Joe, Myself, Andrew & Oscar

Enter the Doom!

We sell Rocket World product!

Our 2010 event list

From the shop into the gallery

Participating artist Lacey Pipher

Curator Sadie Woods showing her niece the Fluffy YukYuk

Jason and Erin Brammer near his installation.

Thank you to everyone that came out, making our grand opening a success! Thanks to Sadie and Carlos for putting together the show! We were pretty much at capacity all night so, if you did not get a chance to really look at The Rock The Future exhibit please come on back! We are open tues-thurs 4-10pm, Sat. 12-7pm and by appointment (info@ohnodoom.com). Rock the Future donates a portion of the art sold to Rock For Kids, a charity that brings music programs to underprivileged youth. 1800 N. Milwaukee ave, Chicago

Happy New Year!

After a nice relaxing Xmas in Seattle I am back and slowly returning to work. Today I will be making various to-do lists under various catagories. I will then assign them a timeline and hopefully that will solve my "too many things in my head" problem. Exciting right?

Just a couple things before I get to work on my amazing new years eve list making...

OHNO!DOOM GRAND OPENING!: The grand opening of our new space has been pushed back. January 16th! This will also be the opening date for our Rock The Future Charity show (Curated by Sadie Woods). The place is coming together wonderfully...can't wait.

Rocket World:

I decided to look and see if my bears were online. They are! But, they are sold out! Thanks to those who purchased them and are giving them a good home! I am currently working on some other mysterious things for them...more details will follow. ;)

Today's press: http://plasticandplush.com/2009/12/lana-crooks-handmade-titus.html

See you next year!

More things

Hey! How's it goin?

So, I decided to put some more of my pieces online for sale. You can look at them (and maybe buy them) here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/plushinator

and

http://lanacrooks.bigcartel.com/

Last Minute holiday shopping? Local? Head over to Rotofugi or FlyBird in Oak Park to pick up some of my plush offerings!

Oh! Look what shipped out to Rocket World from Chez Plushinator!!!!!

Keep an eye on their site if you want a bear, you never know when they will pop up.

There are only three of these bears...ever! They come with a skull. everything is hand made by me (A lot of hand sewing and cramped fingers). They are also the size of a small child. :)

The folks over at Rocket World (rocketworld.org) are amazing people! They also have amazing product...If you purchase something from them you will also be helping out various Wildlife Charities. So yeah! Good stuff!

Also, the clock is ticking down the minutes till OhNo!Doom's grand opening and Charity Art Show: Rock the Future! January 9th 2010!!! WHaaaaaa!!! Mark your calendars and help us open with a BANG! 1800 N. Milwaukee, Chicago!

Quick!

I have more fuming flames up on my etsy.

Also:

My knitting buck is featured in Paste Magazine's Picks!! More etsy editions to come very soon...

3 shows

If you are in Santa Barbara, Miami or Columbus Ohio you should stop by the opening!

Art Basel: Miami

3rd-6th

American Legion Building located at 6445 NE 7th Ave

in the Miami Modern District

I have a selection of work here! I wish I could have gone down there for the festivities but, what can ya do. If you are in Miami for Art Basel please head on over...and take pictures for me.

Stuff This!

5th

@ Rivet

1200 N. High St.

Columbus, OH

I have two pieces at Rivet. There is a sculpture and a corresponding ornament. There is a lot of great work in the show but if you can't see it up close then visit Rivet's site!

My contribution to the show:

Cranky Anchor Ornament

Captain Jack-alope

Last but not least:

Go Ask Alice!

5th

@ Paul Cumes Fine Art

131 East Anapamu St, Santa Barbara

I have 2 pieces up at Paul Cumes Fine Art! This show was a lot of fun to produce work for. I love a good theme! And since I have been, for reasons unknown, really into sewing rabbits and jackalope lately this was perfect. (But now I am also into making tiny clothes)

Here is what I have contributed to this Alice in Wonderland theme show:

The White Rabbit

The March Hare

Perhaps more dapper critters are in my future...just in time for my two woman show with Miss Monster in June. For now I am heading back to the studio.

The super limited edition Titus (a run of only 3) are almost complete and should be heading to Rocket World on Monday.

Next week I plan on having skulls for sale! (around thursday or Friday) I also hope to have smaller items such as surly sea stars, flames and ornaments.

In Chicago? Want a Surly Sea Star? They are available at Rotofugi!

Whirlwind fabric filled adventures

So this week I started collecting fixtures and moving them into our new gallery space. My arms are sore and the space is a little crowded with boxes but everything is coming together!

I have also been spending a lot of time on shows that are opening in the beginning of December.

December 3rd:

I will have pieces at

White Label's Gallery Launch!

@ River East Art Center

435 E. Illinois, Chicago

December 5th:

I will have Alice in Wonderland themed work in (White Rabbit and March Hare):

Go Ask Alice

@ Paul Cumes Fine Art

131 East Anapamu St, Santa Barbara

Also on the 5th:

I will have a plush ornament and sculpture in

Stuff This!

@ Rivet

1200 N. High St.

Columbus, OH

Last but not least!!

Art Basel- Miami

December 3-6th

I will have a selection of works at the Multiversal group show!!

American Legion Building located at 6445 NE 7th Ave in the Miami Modern District

If you are going there...please take pictures for me!

I have a lot of deadlines...so that is all for now...

More Tales from the plush mines...

The Thought Processor show is still up...go see it! OhNo!Doom: 2955 W. Lyndale

Been a busy weekend, somewhere in between being sick and tired I amazingly got a lot done. Got the keys to the new gallery space and found some awesome fixtures! Hooray for progress! So excited to start putting the place together. Until then I will be busy making a lot of plush.

A lot...of...plush. There are the beginnings of 4 different collaborative projects this month. No shows slated for November but plenty coming up in December... Anyway on to the updates!

Rocket World:

I have begun on my Super-limited edition Titus Plush. I will be posting information as they come together... Stay tuned.

Skulls!:

I have received a lot of emails recently about my plush skulls... And...since each Titus plush comes with a Rocket World edition Skull that means I will already be knee deep in skull production. Therefore, I will be making my original series skull at the middle of this month. Just telling you now, there will be very few of them. I will post an update when they are available for sale through my bigcartel shop and then you can fight it out.

BigCartel & Etsy:

I have 4(total) new Surly Sea Stars (Shipmate edition) available on both my Etsy and Bigcartel shop as well as pins and larger pieces. Just sayin.

Retail:

Who has the plush?

Today I packed up two more pieces bound for Munky King in LA (older pieces online, new ones coming soon).

Rotofugi has my piece for the Chicago show (and it is available online!)

Art Whino in DC has a handful of my work (also available online)

Fly Bird in Oakpark, IL now has some of my work as well. Antlers a plenty. Head on over and check out the mural while you are there!