Some Special Events in the Past

Dear Interweb:

For our first blog topic we would like to catch up on some of the past events that Hand Twins has attended. We had another blog (www.handtwins.com) but someone lost the password and now we can only look back longingly at our awesome URL that we can no longer use.

One of the first events that we attended was the Renegade Craft Fair at Fort Mason in San Francisco. (http://www.renegadecraft.com/) It's a large scale DIY event with some really amazing independent artists. The fair travels all over the U.S. from New York City to Austin to L.A. Hand Twins hopes to be a part of Renegade one day, but for now we are happy to be inspired, and spend all of our money supporting some very talented artists.

Megan and Jess both work very hard on Hand Twins projects but also do a lot of work separately. Megan is a member at The Graphic Arts Workshop, a printmaking cooperative (http://www.graphicartsworkshop.org/) where she does all of her printing. She participated in their Open Studio event that we all attended. She sold a couple of her own pieces and even some Hand Twins journals. It was awesome to meet the other artist at the co-op and see all the different types of work they do.

After Meg's show in October of 2009, Jess had a group show in February 2010 at the Artist X-change in the Mission District in San Francisco. The theme was Love at First site to celebrate Valentine's Day. Once again, we all came out to support and enjoy free wine and cheese.