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Erin Duffy | The Times of Trenton

“The hospital, which will include an on-site art gallery, will display art from nearly 70 local artists throughout its corridors and patient rooms. The works range from the calm and peaceful — Tuscany scenes done in dusty browns and greens by prominent Princeton architect and artist Michael Graves — to the bright pops of yellow, orange and pink found in Colleen Attara’s recycled art installation piece.” Read more →

This week I am installing my 70-foot Urban Landscape made of all recycled business signs in Capital Health Medical Center Hopewell.  The night before, I was up until 4:30 a.m. making finishing touches and preparing for a year's worth of work to leave my studio.  What a night!  At around 9 p.m., I cut my finger with a razor blade and my dear friend Wendy, past nurse, drove over to put a butterfly on it.  She said I... Read more →

Whenever I teach an altered book class, some of my students have a hard time when it comes to ripping out the pages. I love the process of deciding which pages tell the story I want to tell. I put the other pages in a file to use later in the process. Turning a special book into art is one of my favorite ways to reuse.

Below is the first book I ever altered. This book is very much about my mom, but I made it just for me. She died three years ago after a long illness. We reached a point when she was complete... Read more →

In about a month, I will be installing a 70-foot installation that is made of all acrylic business signs that have been taken down or replaced. I will be installing it (with help!) in a a new hospital filled with original art all from local artists in a 50-mile radius.

My design is a colorful urban city that becomes more rural as the youngest patients and their parents walk into the pediatric corridor... Read more →

Last February, I was visiting a sweet river town along the Delaware River and came across an old fashion barbershop with a sign in the door that said, “closed until further notice”. It really was old fashioned. Take a peek.

Below the sign was a small bouquet with this note.