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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

My friends! Add this event to your calendar. I will be there with artwork and leading a workshop!

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Look: An Unexpected Arts Experience

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Been a while since I posted over here! Here are some little clouds cut out of Canson watercolor paper and painted with a Pentel water pen using Beam Paints.

A bunch of small watercolor paintings on paper cut into the shapes of clouds. There is a water brush and three little watercolor paints in blue gray and light blue. By artist Molly F. McCracken.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Thrilled to be accepted to the show, Liquid Commonweath: The Art and Life of Water in Virginia, at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at @william_and_mary on view November 14, 2025 – February 15, 2026.

An abstract piece of artwork with the map of Virginia underneath in blues by Artist Molly F McCracken.

A dog in a striped suit laying on top of an artwork in blue shape of Virginia by Artist, Molly F McCracken

Detail of the artwork, You Can’t Drink AI, showing blue marks and one spot of orangey green pink smoke bubble looking item. By Artist, Molly McCracken.

You Can’t Drink AI, artwork by Molly McCracken on the wall at her studio.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My three pieces are still available at Teeny Tiny Trifecta at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. www.secondstreetgallery.org/ttt8-online-...

Square artwork on a gallery wall including 3 pieces by artist Molly F. McCracken in the upper left. Molly’s pieces are green, white, yellow and orange and each has the back half of a car cut from an old National Geographic Magazine on it.

Square artwork on a gallery wall including 3 pieces by artist Molly F. McCracken in the third row down, third column from the right. Molly’s pieces are green, white, yellow and orange and each has the back half of a car cut from an old National Geographic Magazine on it.

Square artwork on a gallery wall including 3 pieces by artist Molly F. McCracken in the third row down, seventh column from the right. Molly’s pieces are green, white, yellow and orange and each has the back half of a car cut from an old National Geographic Magazine on it.

Screenshot of Molly F. McCracken’s three artworks from Teeny Tiny Trifecta at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. They are each assigned a number (568, 569, 570) and a price $125 each. There is also an artwork by McClure, number 305.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

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Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/06/2025

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Art opening for Texture at Reston Art Gallery and Studios from 2-4pm on Sunday, May 4th. Hope to see you there!

Flier for the opening of a show called Texture at the Reston Art Gallery and Studios.

Interior photograph of the Reston Art Gallery and Studios with a number of textured colorful artwork of varying sizes on the three walls in view. In the center is a board with the information regarding the show that will be placed outside before the opening. On the right and left walls below the artwork are small tables and gray chairs.

Part of the CoLab group of artists participating in the Texture show in the Reston Art Gallery and Studios with colorful artwork on the walls behind. Molly McCracken is taking the selfie and in the background from left to right the artists include Julia Malakoff, Jennifer Duncan, Doug Schulte, Jennifer Wilkin Penick, Doug Fuller, Marthe McGrath and Parinaz Bahadori.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We’ve got more upcoming classes at Idylwood Studios. Join Teaching Artist in Residence, Molly McCracken, for an introduction to collage techniques on Friday, April 25 from 6-8pm. Sign up: forms.gle/wogZvps8HYLb... or email IdylwoodStudios@gmail.com. Class is 12 participants, materials are included.

Friday, April 25, 2025 from 6-8pm
Intro to Collage Techniques
Friday, May 9, 2025 from 6-8pm
Collage Techniques Continued
Friday, May 16, 2025 from 6-8pm
Unconventional Materials in Mixed Media
Monday, May 19, 2025 from 6-8pm
Artist Books
Friday, June 6, 2025 from 6-8pm
Paper Weaving
Friday, June 20, 2025 from 6-8pm
Artist Trading Cards

A table with 10 silver trays filled with colorful papers sorted into rainbow order. The two left trays contain scissors and glue. These art supplies are on a table at Idylwood Studios with gray carpet underneath.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

@stephanieburgis.bsky.social I was just looking through fantasy books on NYT and you popped up as new and notable!! Congrats!! Hope you are well. ☺️

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Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
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Our latest fantasy reviews.
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WOOING THE WITCH QUEEN
Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
Burgis delightfully upends the gender dynamics of romantasy while staying true to the core appeal: a
warmhearted innocent falling prey to someone hot and sinister.
Shannon Chakraborty's
Favorite Historical Fantasy
Novels
The author of "The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi" recommends fantastical tales grounded in real history.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Alexander the Great and the Fates, by Bernardino Mei, 1667, 📸 by Sarah Stier

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ll be at MoCA on the Move tomorrow, Sunday 4/6 from 10-1, doing a family friendly art project that is free and open to all. Come by and say hello!

A flier for the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s MoCA on the Move series with cherry blossoms along the right hand side and text stating:
FAMILY SERIES
Celebrating Spring
MoCA on the Move at Met Park
SUNDAYS / 10AM - 1PM
March 30 - June 15
Live music, food, and art making fun for the whole family. Free!
MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY ART ARLINGTON
Looking for more?
Check out the full line up, and discover other events & happenings! With a QR code.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Started a new little series of postcard sized collages on then back of daily prayers for lent.

At the top of a blank white wall space are 5 small (4.25x5.5”) collages by artist Molly McCracken. On the far left the first Collage contains a black and white door with an image of two white women, one in a blue dress, looking up to the corner and one with her back to the audience in a pink dress the second collage contains words from ads ripped out of an old national geographic Magazine, and a woman in a short sleeve shirt with short brown hair and her back to the audience. The third collage contains more words from ads from the National Geographic magazine and includes a woman in a green coat and orange cap, pushing an old-fashioned baby buggy with a young child in it. The fourth Collage contains some words near the top that say “now we have the authority“, part of a black-and-white photograph that shows a door in the background and someone’s arm with a cane in the foreground, an old edge of paper with tape on it into the right a woman wearing a plaid skirt and a white shirt with her arm around a young child. On the far right, the final Collage contains a black-and-white image at a 90 degree angle of the original orientation of a cow with a person standing next to it and a piece of white paper with the words important relation over the face and in the lower left-hand corner, a woman with brown hair, wearing a hat and a pink tank top stairs toward the image of the cow

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Took down the finished piece I was working on and started a new one in the body abstractions series. This group of images go from the blank wall on the right, to midway through my work today in the middle, to where I left it when I went home. Mixed media collage on paper. Size very large.

A large mixed media work in progress on paper tacked up on a wall at Idylwood Studios by artist Molly McCracken. This piece has a variety of shapes and colors, including greens, dark, purple, neon pink, orange and blue. There are circular shapes in lines and squiggles and pieces cut out of Collage paper.

An earlier iteration of the work in progress by Molly McCracken, tacked up on the wall in her studio at Idylwood Studios. This one has many of the drawn in elements with watercolor pencil and Stabilo pencil in a variety of colors plus one vertical collage piece in the left third.

Artist Molly McCracken’s studio wall. A white wall with a board with paint drips below. The left there’s an apron hanging on a hook near the door and a table full of brushes, a bag of dog treats, gesso and other tools. There are two small pieces of artwork above the table. One is an abstract, colorful piece with swoops of bright colors approximately 8 x 8“ and to the right of that there is a vertical green piece that looks like film with little dark rectangles in it.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Something I’m working on. If you know a place that would like to show these huge pieces, let me know! ✂️

A wooden board tacked to a white wall in artist Molly McCracken‘s studio at Idylwood Studios. On the board is a large piece of paper approximately 72 x 48“ with an abstract mixed media collage of the internal workings of the artist’s body. Starting at the left are green shapes and white shapes with small neon, yellow and orange circles. There are also white and gray and purple curved lines near the top and running along the bottom horizontally is a red and pink line. in the center is a blue circular shape and to the right of that gray funnels, running horizontally and connecting in the middle. To the right of that are many vertical lines intersected by a curvy horizontal line about midway up the paper. Below the central line, the colors are primarily black, green and magenta. Above the central line, the colors are primarily purple, blue and black. To the far right there is an orange vertical line. It is hard to describe the many layers and levels of paper paint and drawing that create different shapes with color and texture.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I havent been able to edit my profile yet but I’m on flashes and hope to make it my new home for my art. My handle there is @artistmolly but hopefully I’ll be able to include my full name soon. www.flashes.blue/profile/arti...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Very productive day with my studio assistant Gelli plate printing papers for upcoming workshops.

A cream colored golden doodle lays sleeping in the hallway with gray carpeting, surrounded by dozens of colorful printed papers that artist Molly McCracken will use for Collage fodder in upcoming workshops.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Celebrated the opening of Idylwood Studios last night. It was amazing to have everyone there and enjoy the evening in community through art. @maureenminard.bsky.social @caseywaitart.bsky.social

Artists Casey Wait, Maureen Minard, Molly McCracken and Pamela Huffman stand together in the hallway gallery at Idylwood Studios on February 14, 2025 at the Petite Opening reception. On the walls in the background is colorful artwork.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I can’t stop thinking about this idea illustrated very well by @mluckovich and also the rule of law/felon in the White House contradiction - among many, many other things.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

With an appreciative nod to Louise Bourgeois, #februllage day 13 - heavy. #skamfersvingen

A 5 x 5“ Collage on white paper with a large paper bag filled with groceries in the background and along the right hand side of the paper bag a series of numbers including seven, 83, 26, 39, 10, 14, 1.18, 2.27, .63, 1.00, .49, .49, 2.40, .80 and then a line And below the number 11.05 presumably the amount that the groceries cost from the old National Geographic magazine. On top of the bag is Collage a woman who is slightly smaller than the bag wearing a bikini with her hands on her legs, hunching forward. Over her eyes and most of her nose is a small house that is white with a dark roof in the style of Louise Bourgeois. In the lower right hand corner is a date stamp that says FEB 13 2025 and in pencil below the word heavy.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#februllage day 10 - dots. Cut from an old Nat Geo photo of the 1953 Inaugural Parade.

A 5x5 collage showing irregularly shaped dots cut from a black and white photograph of the 1953 US Inaugural Parade in Washington DC. The 32 dots range in size from approximately 1/4 inch to one inch in size and are arranged to approximately mimic what the photo looked like before it was cut up, sort of as if you were looking through Swiss cheese at the parade. Some parts have been changed and arranged in a way to make things aligned that the artist felt looked better. In the lower right hand corner is a date stamp with FEB 10 2025 and below in pencil the word DOTS.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My beloved Guna Yala is suffering the effects of climate change. This is not the island I lived on but I did stay there one night when traveling with the Puturgandi to Colon. Thinking of all my Guna guenadcan. Nuedi.

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Climate change: The Panama community that fled its drowning island

Rising sea levels threaten homes in Panama, but not everyone wants to leave.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#februllage day 8 - cartoon. I covered up part of this collage for the photo because I didn’t want to post the whole thing.

A 5 x 5 Collage on white paper of a yellow haired, rosy cheeked white girl in a blue checkered dress and a bow in her hair, with knee socks, and black patent leather shoes. Under her feet are a piece of paper cut from a magazine ad that says your phone will help. You have more fun this summer. Next to her on the right is another piece of paper cut from a magazine that says… ask yourself this question: “am I completely satisfied where I am, or merely content?“ In the bottom right corner is a date stamp that says FEB 08 2025 and below it in pencil, the word cartoon, which was the prompt for this day of Februllage collage challenge.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Come see The Inspiro Trio this Sunday at 3pm at Rock Spring United Church of Christ in Arlington, VA.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is what I landed on for day 1 of #februllage - prompt is trees.

A 5x5 inch collage from a National Geographic magazine in which a decaying tree is cut from the green forest around it and repositioned vertically over the hole from which it was cut. On white paper with a date stamp in the lower right hand corner that says FEB 01 2025 and the word TREES written in pencil below.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Super spooky dog walk after/during the rain yesterday evening as the snow and ice melted and formed a foggy situation.

An icy pathway through the leafless woods on the left and a creek with leaf litter on the right. Fog throughout.

Cream colored golden doodle on a leash with a blue harness standing on a big fallen tree that has been sawed off so the circular part is facing the camera. Foggy, leaf littered winter woods in the background.

Tall straight tulip poplar tree in the center surrounded by other deciduous trees in the foggy woods. From the central tree several curvy branches reach out like octopus tentacles.

Several tall straight tulip poplars stand along a path. In the background a hill covered with green and brown shrubbery and small patches of snow lead up to a foggy plateau with more deciduous trees in the far distance.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread

Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Playing around with ideas for #februllage over on Instagram. This is why it will be so hard for me to give that platform up, I’ve developed a community that I love over there. If you are here and doing Februllage as well, please say hello! #skamfersvingen #februllage2025

A tree that had fallen over and was starting to decay in a magazine cut out and repositioned as part of a challenge called februllage. The cutting is on a 5x5 inch paper with a date stamp in the lower right that says Feb 01 2025 and the word trees written in pencil below. This collage is lying on a lined notebook page on a wooden table. Each of the images in this series are the same but with the tree cutout in a slightly different position to see where it looks best before gluing it down. In this picture the tree is somewhat vertical placed inside the hole it was cut from.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Taking some time this morning to set up for a private workshop tomorrow at Idylwood Studios. Also, doing a little work of my own on that big paper. Good thing it is strong watercolor paper because I’m scrubbing the heck out of it to alleviate anxiety.

Art tables set up for a workshop with scissors, glue, paper on a drawing board and cradled wood panel substrate in the gallery hallway at Idylwood Studios. The walls on either side have artwork.

Two folding tables stacked next to each other with supplies for an art workshop, including a drawing board with white paper, a cradle, wood board substrate, scissors in two sizes, glue, paintbrush, and an old phone book to use for gluing. There is a blue and a green stool poking out from the side of the table for seating. And a little corner of a brightly colored artwork up on the wall next to the table.

A table with rainbow colored trays of paper, colored pencils, watercolors, and cups for water in the foreground. In the background are several tables set up with materials for a Collage workshop. On the walls is art by Molly McCracken, Casey Thompson, Pamela Huffman and Casey Wait.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just pinned a huge piece of paper (78x42) for my next piece in the body abstractions series. (Thanks @maureenminard.bsky.social) What should I call this series? Body Weight? Body Work? These works reflect the inner workings of me both biologically (eg. nut allergy) and emotional (eg. anxiety).

Large piece of white paper pinned to a board on a wall in Molly McCracken’s art studio. The foreground has lots of papers, paints and other art supplies on a long table.

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