Fall Open Studio Tour: Sunday October 23
“Our fifth Open Studio tour.
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The Artist Journey #9
West of the Moon…East of the Sun The artist journey is beautifully illuminated by the light within people. Friends have a strong influence in my life, they provide inspiration and clarity. As a result, leaving the safe spaces of my life has enlarged my territory. I feel like I am called to explore, abandon the…
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“Soiree #7 + Open Studio Sunday” Art in the Slope
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“Illuminate” Art Show Opening
“Without light, darkness projects an infinite wilderness void of life.”
“Side Hustle” Part of the artist life
“There is nothing more economically valuable than teaching people how to articulate and communicate.” Jordan Peterson
Draw Your Soul
…it brought peer recognition but more importantly, it set in motion that insatiable desire to draw my soul.
Visual Artists: Recession 2022
Local Art Galleries Then: And Now Traditional art galleries, a 19th century invention, continue to operate. Dying retail footprints first shrink the brick and mortar platform. And second; join the Meta universe, the 24/7 digital marketplace reaching an ever larger audience. The Pandemic accelerated the learning curve on mastering the type of technology needed to…
Soiree # 7 Update
Art-Centric and Poetic One of the first people I spoke to about my idea and vision of hosting “art-centric” events was poet Shawnte Orion. We posed in a “make-shift” shadowbox for this photo. I think it is a photo by Jia Oak Baker. Now a couple of years later, we are working on the spoken-word…
“Illuminate”
“There is a sense of sacredness and security seeing the light illuminating the dark.”
Spirituality in Art
The ethos of the desert is present in my work.