WOFA's Work

Marilyn Demos Fravel has been WOFA to Bill Fravel for nearly 40 years now. She has always wanted meaningful initials after her name - hence, W.O.F.A.

WOFA signifies the importance of the role of those special people (and Marilyn dares to call herself "special"!) who live with and support the work of the world's creative people. 

WOFA has helped Bill Fravel The Fine Artist by making gallery contacts, vacuuming his studio and gallery, schlepping his work to and from, washing windows, digitalizing images of his work, tracking his inventory, managing his web site and baking cookies for Open Studios.

WOFA has also bugged and badgered The Fine Artist to PAINT! PAINT! PAINT! Get out there in front of people! Work on larger paper! Paint abstracts! Paint Plein Aire! She finds herself dangerously close, at times, to the edge: The Fine Artist hollers "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO PAINT!"

Fravel's greatest patron in many senses of the word, WOFA asks "Is WOFA The Fine Artist's muse?"  WOFA will be reading the new book "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired", by Francine Prose and give you her answer soon!

WOFA'S QUOTES FOR THE TIME BEING

On GENIUS:

"Bill has always been my anchor, my home base. And Bill is a genius."

-Elaine de Kooning on her husband, Bill de Kooning

"Elaine helped put Bill on the map. But, then, Elaine herself would have had no place on a map, no career, without Bill. He was the genius. She was the manager of the genius. But she was a genius at that job."

-Grace Hartigan, painter, and friend of the de Koonings