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ready for the new year...

My Journal

This is where my new year began.

ready for the new year

After what seemed to be a few hours of sleep, my daughter and I boarded an early morning plane New Year's Day with her dance troop (about 30 dancers in all, their moms and Read more →


A Brave New World

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Kristin Boyd | Bucks Life Magazine | Winter 2012

"When Colleen Attara talks about how she uses old plastics, recycled store signs and mistake paint to shape her surreal, three-dimensional artwork, her passion makes life feel like it is dripping with excess possibility." Read the full article...

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Wall-to-wall whimsy: A Lower Makefield artist's work becomes a landmark at a new hospital in New Jersey

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Gwen Shrift | Courier Times | December 6, 2011

"Artist Colleen Attara has executed many commissions for her environmentally friendly work, but none as big as the one she just completed..." Read the full article...

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Colleen Attara: Eco Artist Interview

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Heather Davulcu | April Heather Art

“Let me tell you – she is a FORCE to be reckoned with. A force of good!” Read the full article...

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studio journal

My Journal

This past week, during a moment of calm, I paged through a journal that I keep in my studio.  I loved turning the pages and seeing a year unfold before me.

I purchased this handmade art book at an outdoor market with my daughter in High Falls, New York.  We had an art getaway weekend, just the two of us the spring before last.  We stumbled upon an outdoor market in the middle of town on a Sunday morning and an artist selling tiny handmade books.

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