Here I am offering my images for “licensing” at the SURTEX 2012  show in NYC,  a very exciting and fruitful exhibit!

Many possibilities… at this point I’m doing my follow-ups with everyone. Those that came by and the ones I made contact with. The attendance was phenomenal and it was well worth it! Most likely you will see a few Lisa Rivas items on the shelves at some point this year, I will keep you posted.

The image on the booth and the tall counter went on very smoothly, a total wrap!

I used a new product called Photo Tex a “Revolutionary New Substrate”, a removable-reusable adhesive fabric from South Korean inventors.
It is an adhesive-back fabric that sticks on to any non-porous flat surface and removes easily with no residue for a sharp-looking and seamless image.
This product was so fabulous everyone wanted to know more about it and best of all it can be printed using a wide range of printing technologies and inks.
You can purchase it here from Lex-Jet, tell them I sent you.

And the tear down of the booth – wrap up went like a breeze (rolled it up).
I am now planning to repurpose this image, maybe sew it… collage it… or paint some of it!

Earlier this year the Metro Arts Gallery of Nashville to conmemorate the “historic flooding” of the Cumberland River in May of 2010 made a call to artists for artwork related to this eventful date.
The exhibit was called “Spirit of the River“, in regard to the Nashville Flood

The never ending rainstorm of 2010 was the “cleanse” of Nashville.
It was more rain than some had ever witnessed and so much more…
Many saw their love ones, their homes, their work, their animals and pets
struggle with the overwhelming stream of this downpour.

A deluge, where no dust was left unsettled, a rain that turned to dust their efforts.

And if there was any plant or tree that had missed out on some water,
it then received it from the heavens thus satisfying it’s thirst.
So for the remaining part nature thrived forth with verdant life.
Lisa Rivas 2010

Here was my submission and it was acquired by the Tennesee State Museum last quarter. Click Here

“The Flood” -original painting • 30″H x 72″W • 2011 © Lisa Rivas
watercolor, inks,  black walnut ink, rice paper, mounted on birch panel
Tennessee State Museum permanent collection – Nashville, TN
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
~Buddha quote