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Global warming, we thought we had this fixed-one baby each. We called it Zero Population Growth, but what happened? If one cup of coffee is a shortcut to enlightenment, drink two, practice restraint, use condoms, flirt online. Solving the problem seems as simple as how many rats are in the maze thinking. It starts at home. Wake up and smell the coffee. Zero Population Growth-pass it on.

Make your own damn job or pay for play, or Make Art and Give it Away.

From life, I’ve learned all three of these concepts work.

I discovered early that if your grandmother was the best seamstress in town, you got to play Mary every year in your local nativity tableau. Another bit of Jennie history—and a star is born.

My Grama was the best at sewing and just about everything else. Hilda Mary Rose Groves Cooley, Grama, made dolls, unique and often recycled. She sewed, crocheted, knit and painted. Her friends and neighbors brought her incredible celluloid, composition and porcelain dolls from their childhoods to embellish and refurbish along with her original ones. My grandfather, Grover Cooley, made appropriate doll furniture for many of them in his workshop behind the well-known home at 26th Street and Arrowhead Avenue.
Christmas comes every year and soon after the “sale,” and, so, who gets to play Mary? I do.  Hilda would make an amazing costume from her recycled stash. I would choose my favorite doll for that year’s Jesus and my mother, Tommy Cooley, who loved glitter and gold spray paint, made a halo from the top of a candy box. So, from all this, I learned to make dolls, create jobs and make art and give it away.
 
This Grama-inspired art is a monotype using a solar plate affixed to a hollow-core door. I then painted and sealed it with a matte finish. This piece will be presented in March at Expo New York City, booth S247! It is also available as a magnet card or giclee in a variety of sizes.

Once a year they held a “doll sale” in their home in San Bernardino, California, sold the dolls and gave all the money to their church, Saint John’s Episcopal Church in San Bernardino. Their sale was often covered by The Sun Telegram, the daily paper.

Larry’s leaving CNN, Oprah’s leaving ABC BUT Jennie’s not leaving Santa FE, just Canyon Rd.,as “Gallery Owner”.
It’s time for someone else to clean the toilets, take out the trash and hang up my art on thier walls! And I have a gallery in New York City that wants me! Yes, they really want me. Also I will be presenting my art in the SOLO show at ARt Expo NYC, March 22. I’m hoping to pick up another gallery in Santa FE and elsewhere to represent me. So it’s time for me to be a wacky, whining, and winning artist full time. Oh yeah, and drink heavily!

“The Best for Last” Please come by and say Hello and Goodbye Wednesday thru Friday as Jennie Cooley Gallery closes. After three great years Jennie is starting a new adventurer- Canyon Rd. to New York and back! The gallery has been a huge success thanks to the artists and friends and people like you. Please come in and let me thank you in person. I am in the gallery Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We have some great gallery wide discounts from the artists just in time for Christmas. Call if there is a piece of art from one of the gallery artists you are interested in acquiring. But just come by! Jennie Cooley and Jennie Cooley art will continue online at www.jenniecooley.com, Jennie Cooley Gallery on Facebook and info on this blog.