artists
September 21, 2009
- Two women into the gallery last week on consecutive days who are artists who also teach art. Both lost everything in California wildfires last year, one in California's Big Sur, the other several hundred miles north. Homes, studios, paintings, art libraries, sketch books. All lost. ``Thirty years of sketch books,'' said one, who has moved into a nearby town with her family. Sketches, to ...
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September 20, 2009
- There have been many claims that there is a connection between creativity and madness; famous artists, writers, and others with their gift for beyond the mundane appear to the outsider to be touched with a spark of insanity; where else could some of our creative accomplishments come from? For those of us on the inside, however, it is a complexly different experience; a world in which only the few ...
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August 22, 2009
- Eileen “I think one of the reasons for practicing arts is to extend oneself beyond oneself (not that I have been successful at doing so).” Absolutely. Since art is creation, and artists are the creators, it’s a little like playing God, except on a tiny and very humble scale, and only in their imaginations (and ours) of course. They make scenes that live. They make people. Everything ...
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July 16, 2009
- "The Burden of Happiness" by Orna Ben-Shoshan Ekleksographia #2 Diana Adams Cynthia Arrieu-King with Hillary Gravendyk Anny Ballardini Jeanne Marie Beaumont Dan Boehl Alexander Dickow Linh Dinh Tomas Ekström Erica Miriam Fabri Farrah Field Adam Fieled Annie Finch Ossian Foley Jennifer H. Fortin Maya Funaro Heather Green Niels Hav, trans. by P. K. Brask & Patrick ...
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June 11, 2009
- Last month I sold my first photograph. I've been taking pictures for about two years now, but just recently began showing them publicly. This was my first show.This morning I was telling a friend about the sale and she said, "Congratulations! You're a photographer!"Well, no, not really. I take photographs, and one of them is interesting enough that someone bought it and hung it in his ...
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June 1, 2009
- Sunday's New York Times had an article on the cover about artists from around the world painting likenesses of our president. The few examples accompanying the article were impressive, some better than others, but who am I to judge since I have trouble drawing anything more than a stick figure. I am so impressed by what an artist is able to do with watercolors and wonder ...
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May 11, 2009
- Sunday I went to Tribal Cafe for the wake for John Leech, co-founder of the Onyx Café, which was the best artists café in Los Angeles for the past forty years. John, beloved by hundreds of hundreds of artists, died March 17. The Onyx itself lasted from 1982-1998—it transformed both the Los Angeles artists’ scene and the Los Feliz neighborhood.The first time I wandered into the original ...
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April 19, 2009
- Two more video clips have been produced to advocate putting artists to work as part of national recovery. One features movie star Peter Coyote, and the other features...well, as you can see right here on my Red Room page--me. You can access both videos, plus one starring actor Bill Irwin, at my YouTube channel. I'll be writing more soon about how others can spread their own first-person ...
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March 30, 2009
- Please Join Us at the Symposium "Art has to do with the sustaining and invigorating of the Personality. To be strong is to be happy. Art by expressing our feelings makes us strong and therefore happy." --John Butler Yeats in letter to Edward Dowden, 31 Dec, 1869 Among the world's creative thinkers and cultural workers, some achieve notable "success" that allows ...
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March 3, 2009
- A few days ago, at a huge writers conference in Chicago, I met a charming and articulate man -- dressed in lizard cowboy boots and a very interesting sort of felt cowboy hat -- who happens to be a lobbyist for the arts. He was very excited to have just been a part of the effort to ensure the 50 million dollar funding of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the hope of continued funding ...
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