Artist Grantee Posts
The latest blog posts from the Creative Pinellas Grantees
Memorialized on Brick
This is a first for me! Mural Artist Terry Klaaren received a grant to create a mural celebrating women artists and musicians which ended up being a memorial for his wonderful wife who passed suddenly on the first day of this year. See prior blog: https://creativepinellas.org/magazine-items/old-friends-and-the-muses/?fbclid=IwAR0cYx39luM8ZaNoHMuGV45Vzrg1ffNKK6FThjNtDZiYkvvkgIQpcprZMao Terry decided to include [...]
New Sketch for Low Relief Sculpture/Paintings
Hello and Welcome back! Sketching out my ideas for my low relief sculptural paintings is a big part of my process. Once I sketch in my sketchbook I take ideas further by creating larger drawings to work out details:
Untied We Stand
United We Stand The Dunedin Concert Band's next performance for 2019 features a tune about "no matter what comes our way or what we have to face, united we stand." (Like 9/11. Like collapsing mines or floods or mass shootings.) The piece ties into a patriotic themed concert exploring some [...]
Two books by Mary Gabriel
Hello and Welcome Back! Reading is a huge part of of process, here are two books I highly recommend by Mary Gabriel:
“If music be the food of love…”
What was it Shakespeare is credited as writing? "If music be the food of love, play on." From Twelfth Night, right? Well, most musicians - amateur and professional - kind of think the two go together. Music + Food = Love. Again, I forgot to take a picture during rehearsal [...]
Limp Pricks and Plants Shelf in Rising Waters
Hello and welcome back. Here is a new piece I just finished for the upcoming show 'Rulers' at Coco Hunday, a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood: 'Limp Pricks and Plants Shelf in Rising Waters', 2019, shredded documents, canvas, acrylic, pastel, thread 21 x 11 x 3 inches
Pre-Concert Nerves
How do you prepare for a performance? Do you hype yourself up, are you nervous, do you have ‘butterflies’? How do you handle the anxiety, if you experience any?
Obsession and Art
Last week, I taught a workshop at the annual Sandhill Writers Retreat, held on campus at Saint Leo University. One of the most rewarding parts of these community-based workshops is working closely with people who are already doing what I consider to be the hardest thing in creative life: making [...]
Upcoming Exhibition | Knuckle Sandwich
Hi Guys! I'm quite excited to announce my upcoming exhibition titled "Knuckle Sandwich" along with artist Denis Gaston at Leslie Curran Gallery in St Petersburg FL. The exhibition is curated by Robin Perry Dana and it features works by Denis and I. Knuckle Sandwich will be on view from June [...]