By Teresa Mandala Finding New Traditions for the Holidays . . . It’s that time of year again. The Holidays are back! And if you are anything like me you… Read More
Finding New Traditions for the Holidays
Genre: Grantee Story
My Mentor-Candace Knapp
Having a mentor to work with throughout the grant period is a profound gift. It’s one of the most exciting aspects thus far of my experience as a grantee. I… Read More
My Space
I consider myself a Mixed Media Sculpture artist because I love to experiment and work with many mediums outside of what most people know me as using. I use clay,… Read More
Becoming a Rapper (Pt.1)
What’s up Blogiverse? My name is Jon “Ditty” Didier. I’m a Rapper, Songwriter, Artist, slowly becoming full-blown Musician, Nerd, Workaholic, obsessive-compulsive Human Being, or a hodgepodge of bones and tissues;… Read More
The Art of Juggling – Motherhood and Careers
It was the fall of 2017, my only child was 10 years old and I had no plans for more. I decided to make the plunge. I carefully outlined a… Read More
Connecting Through Art
I started teaching the year my daughter left for college. I needed something to focus all of my nurturing tendencies on and teaching others my passion for art seemed the… Read More
A brutal but honest origin story — to understand the art, you must understand the artist.
As a kid in the early 60s, there was a blue carbon-copy page that would travel with my mom and I as we bounced from apartment to apartment and school… Read More
Judging Other People’s Writing
By Yuly Restrepo . . . On a few occasions, I’ve had the opportunity to act as a judge for other people’s writing. One of them is for the Tampa… Read More
Some of my work. . .
By David Manson . . . This is an energetic orchestral fanfare that I composed on a flight to San Francisco. The thematic material came to me during a nap… Read More
On Writing and Failure
By Chelsea Catherine . . . I found out that a book I had been working on for two years was not going to be published. After a slew of… Read More
