RIGHT NOW AND COMING UP IN 2010:

Art Blog covering 2010 Rochester Tour
Check it out at: www.jimmott.blogspot.com

Seeking hosts for first local IAP "tour"
The Greater Rochester Community IAP is my first hometown tour and also the first extended metropolitan tour. The map shows where hosts are most needed.

IAP to visit NYC: seeking input
Bringing the Itinerant Artist Project and the spirit of "art as gift" to the heart of the commercial art world seems like a good idea. Probably late 2010 or early 2011. I'm looking for hosts and logistical suggestions.

Contact: jim@jimmott.com

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:

NYSCA Grant for 2010 Rochester IAP
The current Greater Rochester Community IAP "tour" will be about a dozen 2-3 day stops done over the course of 2010 throughout the Greater Rochester area. For more info, please see my project blog.

This unique form of community art outreach will be a model for future metropolitan IAP tours in other cities and is made possible in part by a grant from the NY State Council on the Arts and the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester.

Road Art Review: 10-year IAP Retrospective
Painting highlights from the first 10 years of art tours have been exhibited at two area colleges. This traveling show has been glowingly reviewed by Rebecca Rafferty of City Newspaper.

Fall '09 Return to North Florida
Back in November 2009 I had a wonderful return visit to St. Augustine and Gainesville that included a workshop I gave at the Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach: "Simple and Direct - Small Panel Painting for Artists on the Go". A full report is overdue, but many thanks to my kind hosts Sydney McKenna and Melanie Peter (both highly accomplished artists)...

Fall '09 New England IAP Tour
Earlier last fall I took my 9th or 10th (depending on how you count) IAP tour, another circuit through New England. Unlike most tours, where I tend to stay mostly with strangers, this one included mostly college friends.

My first stop, however, was with a literary agent couple/team from NYC, at their Berkshire retreat. Except for their savagely territorial cat and my own overly enthusiastic return to touring (9 paintings the first day -- something that puts me into a slightly difficult frame of mind), it was a great start.

Visits to the Quatrano (RI, MA), Trowbridge (NH), Janik (VT), and Harrington (VT) households were marvelous. A late invitation to paint at Prout's Neck, Maine -- Winslow Homer's old stomping grounds and hard to visit if you're not in residence there -- led to a sort of postscript tour stop a few weeks later. A more complete report with images should be coming later in 2010.