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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · 21d

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 · Sep 21

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 · Jul 2

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

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

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Jun 30

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · May 19

If you want to know what I do when I’m not making art, it is supporting my kids in all of their adventures. This was my weekend:
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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · May 16

Lots of people out yesterday protesting while the arguments were happening, including a handful of congresspeople.

Protest crowd in front of the Supreme Court with a cloudy sky and scaffolding covering the front of the building

Protest crowd in front of the Supreme Court with a hand holding a small American flag and a sign that says “EL DERECHO A LA CUIDADANIA POR EL NACIMIENTO ES UN DERECHO CONSTITUCIONAL” and scaffolding covering the front of the building.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · May 3

Love it! 🤩

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · May 1

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 · Apr 9

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 [email protected]. 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 · Apr 8

I’ve been reading exclusively fantasy lately so was super for this list and even more excited to see your name there!

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Apr 8

@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. ☺️

Screenshot of the New York Times page about Fantasy Novels.
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Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
New and Noteworthy
Our latest fantasy reviews.
STEPHANIE BURGIS
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 · Apr 6

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

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Apr 5

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 · Mar 29

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Molly F McCracken @artistmolly.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ready for classes at Idylwood Studios. For more information on classes and how to sign up, visit this blog post: https://www.artistmolly.com/post/workshops-at-idylwood-studios

First class will be Gelli Plate Printmaking on April 4 from 6-8pm.

A table filled with silver trays containing colorful pieces of painted paper for Collage in rainbow order and two trays with some scissors and adhesive on the left-hand side. This is Artist Molly McCracken’s set up for art classes at Idylwood Studios.

Idylwood Studios showing on the right hand side a glimpsed into artist, Molly McCracken and Pamela Huffman’s studio. In the center is a table filled with Collage papers, scissors and glue in little silver trays and on the left-hand side of the table white paper and markers. On the wall behind the table are several pieces of Molly McCracken’s artwork including an abstract piece in yellow and magenta and Paynes gray entitled Pandemic, an ombre vertical work made with painted cardboard held together with paper clips and on the door all of Molly‘s Februllage collages that are 4 x 4. In the back corner is Molly‘s chair dealing with mental health and wellness called Panic.

A table on gray carpet shot from above with Artist Molly McCracken‘s set up for a Gelli plate print making class. On the right of the table are some prints in black blue and pink next to that is a jelly plate and some bubble wrap and other printmaking supplies in the middle is a prayer and some paint rolled out onto a surface and at the top is some paper and golden open acrylics.

A series of five tables in the hallway at Idylwood Studios. On the first table is the printmaking set up described in the last image. On each subsequent table there is a similar set up ready for students to learn. There is art on the left and the right on the walls is colorful.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Mar 16

A constant struggle.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thanks so much! I’m enjoying working small alongside working big. A true luxury to have space to do both, which I am incredibly grateful for.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Mar 8

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 · Mar 8

Yes Casey! 🤩

Casey Wait @caseywaitart.bsky.social · Mar 7

I painted intuitively. Joyful. Felt like an act of resistance.

Large abstract oil painting with sketches of lanterns

Large abstract oil painting with sketches of lanterns in situ

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Mar 7

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 · Mar 4

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 · Mar 4

Thanks so much for including me. I’m a huge believer that the arts are for everyone. I’ve been working on my descriptions of pieces for alt.text - I find it to be very difficult but hope that I am improving!

Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Feb 25

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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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Feb 24

I don’t know but I just took one myself on Friday even though it was hard to do from the very last row!

Photo by Molly McCracken out of an airplane window of the Pentagon and parking lots near the top, parking lot of the Long Bridge Aquatic Center in the foreground and 395 full of traffic outbound curving right through the middle.

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Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social · Feb 21

😂 face meat. We call it bitey face.