Dear Art in The Park

I have lived in Richland, Washington, for three years now and Art in The Park has been a highlight every year. It's rare that I get to share my art with so many people and once they step into my booth they are all ears. It's different from an exhibition in that i really get to explain the inspiration behind pieces.

Felicia Follum Art at Art in The Park
Richland, Washington

I have never attended the event as a local but have had a booth all three years. My first year I found nearly everything for my set up on the side of the road marked "free" or from dumpster diving, yet somehow you saw potential in my application. My second year I bought a couple pieces at Goodwill and a couple used easels from other artists. This year was my first year with panels for walls and it made a huge difference!

I'm thankful for an arts event that involves the community and has been willing to let me learn as I grow. Art in The Park, you have pushed me to create new work and to engage with the community.

I'm already looking forward to next year and am thinking of some of the changes I will make!!!


Thank you Art in The Park, Allied Arts and Tri-Cities for being pretty stinking amazing!

<3 Love,
Felicia Follum

PS, If you would like to learn more about the work in the image, here are some links below.

My Women & Sisters (Redemption and Stories)

Boats & Bombs (Working with refugees locally and abroad)

The Lily Pad Project (Raising awareness about human trafficking and sex slavery)

Travel Your City (Exploring and Promoting Richland, Kennewick and Pasco)

Ugly Fish?

Hello fellow artists and art enthusiasts!

My name is Felicia Follum and this is my first post for Art-a-Day, though I have been following the blog since March. I am an emerging artist and will be graduating from the University of Wyoming in May.  My artwork tends to focus on social issues.  My most recent body of work deals with African American religious culture and my next body will be dealing with human trafficking.

To see more about me and my artwork check out my blog, website, or Facebook page.  But for now I would like to share one of the watercolor studies I painted a couple days ago. This painting was supposed to be a study of cloth using my dad’s old fish tie. I ended up drawing the fish instead of the waded fabric at the other end.  I really enjoy the colors in this painting...

My mom hated the fish tie and gave it to me in high school.  I kept it and entered it in  an ugly tie contest at Alexander's, a jewelry shop.  It won enough for a free pearl necklace. 

Orchid #2 and a Glider Sketch

Art has happened nearly every day - posting has not. Reminds me of my vegetable gardening - love to grow 'em, then put off the harvesting 'til "tomorrow". Luckily, the art doesn't turn to cardboard like the green beans do.

Anyway, Orchid #2 is finished for the tryptich - Cattleya, Florist's Orchid.

I didn't officially participate in the World-wide Sketch Crawl, but maybe I'm dipping my toes in the water for the next one.
This started out as a pencil sketch, then colored with watercolor. It seemed a little ho-hum until the black fine-point Sharpie came out and dressed up the lines.