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
Becoming a Rapper (Pt.1)
Genre: Grantee Story
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
Torched & Stapled
Sometimes you start a piece and just don’t know how to end it. But it all Comes together in the end! I created a partial body piece that showed a… Read More
Water = Life
I’m in the middle of creating a few pieces for next year’s Emerging Artist show. They reflect the four elements and our relationship to its energy. My favorite element is… Read More
The Anarchy of Grief
2020 was a rough year for so many. Myself included. I lost my Dad in May of 2020. Then just four months later, in September, I lost my best friend…. Read More
