In November we are thankful, right? Free Writing Free writing is an exercise I learned in one of my writing classes in college. Just start. Write. You will get somewhere if you do and nowhere if you don’t. Just do … Read More
It’s All in Your Head. It’s All in Your Head. But it starts in your heart, out of a desire. Or at least, that is where it should start if you want to maintain the creative movement to keep your … Read More
Encountering the Art My art History professor ended the class with, “you now know more about fresco than you will ever care to know.” But not me, I have been thinking about frescoes for days. While watching the PBS special … Read More
Do You Have Blank Walls? Introducing Jenny De La Fuente Jenny is a creative who I find very helpful because she is in her own right an emerging artist. She is very familiar with the creative process, accepting the ebb … Read More
Defining Abstraction Some people require that in order for art to be art it has to be realistic, or beautiful or both. Over a hundred years ago groups of artists began to challenge the traditional requirements for art. Before then, … Read More
What a wonderful surprise to find myself in my hometown while the exhibit, Changing Times: Art of the 1960’s was at the Dayton Art Institute. The Museum has been refurbished since I moved away many years ago, so it wasn’t … Read More
The Trail I Followed to Discover the Meaning of the Underground Railroad Quilts I found Phyllis Stephens a wonderful contemporary quilter whose work is like a painting. Following links, I happened upon a video of a lecture she had done. … Read More
Can creativity contribute to aging well? According to a program I recently tuned into on Zoom called Curated Conversations, it can. Curated Conversations is produced by the University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. They aired a three-panel … Read More
When the Lord put something in you it’s hard to ignore because it will keep surfacing again and again. For me that something is being an artist. A Change In my early 20s I quit my nursing job, one I … Read More
