Our friend Natalie opened up her new studio at their new apartment for friends and art enthusiasts. Her theme is Herds and Graves. Mark and I love to look at all of Natalie's beautiful work, this time we even got to see some of her earlier work. The school gives one of her older pieces called "emeritus" to faculty who become professors.

Natalie likes to work with large areas of white space which always give her art an open feeling, perfect for the herds and graves theme. This is the third show that we have gone to for Natalie, at the second one, Natalie's MFA show, we picked up a cute dog magnet (here theme was dogs and rats). But in moving to a new apartment this summer it unfortunately got misplaced. Natalie was nice enough to give us a rat magnet earlier this year to remember her show by. This time we picked up another magnet, this time a sheep (in the theme of Herds) and instantly named him Lucky.