Arts Edu and Milton Glaser
September. Education. Travel. During my teaching trip to Seattle, I connected with many artists who shared ideas and enthusiasms. I’ve been working with my local arts council on two grants to integrate...
View ArticleAdvice for Writing About Your Art: Quick and Easy
I’m repeating myself here, but this advice is worthy of repetition because it works! I introduce an exercise called Word Coffee in one chapter of my book. This is also the first exercise in my...
View ArticleArt-Writing Links
“The color of truth is gray,” said André Gide. It’s extremely truthful outside today. Since I’m having a hard time firing up the Blog machine on this foggy, hourless day in January, I’ll share some...
View ArticleRemarkable Messages in Ceramic by Tip Tolan
There really should be a word for the moments when art affects us physically. I’ve heard “artgasm” but that implies the effect is pleasurable. Sometimes it is, and sometimes art hits us in the solar...
View ArticleThe Only Rule Is Work
I came across Ten Rules for Students and Teachers on the Open Culture website, and it rings all my arts education bells. A list of “rules” favored by two innovative forces like John Cage and Merce...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Beauty Parlor and Digitizing Women’s Art
The Nuclear Beauty Parlor 1985(photo by Bobby Neal Adams) For the past month I’ve been on a mission to digitally document a woman’s performance/prankster art group I belonged to in San Francisco during...
View ArticleArtists Saving Ourselves and Each Other: Free book for artists
“The markers of achievement for artists are scattered, few, and sometimes contradictory. External markers of success are great, but they won’t save you. In the end, we artists need to save ourselves....
View ArticleComplacency is Fear-Based: Interview with Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich
About the artist: Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich exhibits her work regionally and nationally. Artist residences at the Graves’ Foundation (2014, 2009), Playa at Summer Lake (2011), the Jentel Foundation...
View ArticleThe Center for Mediocrity
The Center for Mediocrity is my invention as a homework assignment. I’m enrolled in “Art of the MOOC: Merging Public Art and Experimental Education”, a collaboration of Duke University and Creative...
View ArticleCan Creativity Be Taught?
The following article, “Can Creativity Be Taught?” first appeared in Professional Artist Magazine, Aug/Sept 2015. I’m particularly fond of this one because I get to mention ArtCore, an integrated arts...
View ArticleARTiculate: Full article here
Artists, I hope you’ll enjoy my article ARTiculate: Write and speak your way to confidence. Originally published by Professional Artist Magazine, it features artwork and quotes from artists Gabe...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Art
If you’re in the Eugene area, please come to an event I’m facilitating over the next 3 Tuesday nights. The description below provides details, but the shorthand is this: Let’s Talk About Art. FREE!...
View ArticleCreativity and the Business of Art: Free Video Series
Artist Alexis Castillo decided to put together a free educational video series for artists, Creativity and the Business of Art. (Update: Alexis rebranded as Art Business Essentials) She found a range...
View ArticleWrite About Visual Art – Community Based Workshop
If local writers turned their attention to local contemporary art, what might happen? What new conversations and connections could emerge? This is the subject of an experimental writing workshop I’ll...
View ArticleThe Fine Artist Summit, Online in November
Dear friends, artists and art educators, I’m pleased to share the launch of an online educational event for visual artists – The Fine Artist Summit. My book, Art-Write, brought me to the attention of...
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