Our family portrait is on view at HERA Gallery. Learn more about the exhibit HERE.

I am working on a series of handmade brushes and brooms with a seasonal palette. Small whiskers for clean up and “wispers” for tiny jobs of tidying up. More about holiday shows, teaching, and selling are on my Instagram page @rsiemering

Save the date! I will be doing a public reading of my work in progress – along with the 7 other writers who were in residence with me at Linden Place – on Thursday, June 2nd from 6:30-8 p.m. at 500 Hope St in Bristol. 

Genesis Barrera reads from her short story about a young civil war veteran here on the 4th of July. Ben Jolivet reads from a play where Samuel P. Colt is visited upon by a variety of ghosts. Kate Lane reads from a romance novella about a fictional DeWolf cousin. Rochelle Leach reads poems about African American barber Daniel Tanner. Elizabeth Maligranda reads from her TV pilot script set in Pre-Civil War New England. Mia Manzotti reads from her horror novel that has Charlotte DeWolf as the central figure. Curtis Perdue reads poems that connect the prosperity of the house’s occupants to the labor of enslaved people. And, Rebecca Siemering reads haiku poems that take inspiration from various objects in the museum’s collection. Young writers from School One and Goat Hill Writers’ program Write Rhode Island will open the event by reading from their short fiction. I hope to see you there!  #LindenPlace #BristolRI #RIWriters #WritersResidency
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-in-residence-public-reading-tickets-338462820407

I carved myself a

knife to butter bread, each slice

a revelation.

I have always admired woodcarving, and having trained as a sculptor originally, you would think I tried my hand at it at some point. Other things took my interest but it renewed recently, I figured out I could take an online class and learn a new skill and make something useful and beautiful. I finished carving a knife today, shaving it bit by bit over the week, when I had a moment here and there. I have ideas and plans, but next- larger utensils, a scoop to practice. Our beautiful lilac tree needs a drastic trim. I hope I can salvage the limbs into something beautiful we can use every day and remember all of the branches climbed and forts made, birds they sheltered, and us. #cherrywood #carving #butterknife #carving #craftersbox #motokosmith

One of my new white line wood block printing pieces is featured in the Packard Group National Exhibition 2021.

“Artists from across the United States of America submitted photographs of their 2D artwork to the Packard Group National Exhibition 2021 to be display at the No. 7 Center gallery in Vermillion, South Dakota. Klaire A. Lockheart curated this exhibition, and she was pleased to include a wide variety of artwork made by professional artists, students, and everyone in between. This second annual exhibition included paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, weavings, and mixed media artwork. This last year was certainly a challenge, but this exhibition proves how resilient and dedicated artists are! 

The drive-in movie reception will happen at No. 7 Center on Friday, April 2nd at 8:30 pm. A movie of the artwork will be projected in the large window so it can be viewed from outside. Patrons are welcome to view the artwork in their vehicles, but if they want to gather on the sidewalk near the window, masks are required.”

Anniversary Apples, 2021. Whiteline Woodblock Print, 8″ x 10″ Print #4

My daughter had an idea in mind to build some little scenes out of the cardboard boxes from Christmas. We had so much fun and made these magnetized vignettes inspired by Benjamin Pollack’s Toy Shop in West End, London’s #cardboardchallenge. They loved it so much, they shared it on Instagram. Enjoy ice skating at Rockefeller Center and going to outer space from our kitchen.

Wish Veil will be for sale to benefit  Movement Education Outdoors 

Regenerative Collective Art + Craft Benefit  |   September 12th 

Where: 18 Ferncrest Ave on September 12, from 9 am-NOON and live on Instagram @regenerative_collective