Artist Grantee Posts
The latest blog posts from the Creative Pinellas Grantees
Without My Studio…
Without My Studio... Letting go to Grow: Sooo, yeah as I mentioned in my last post, at the end of June we unfortunately had to move out of our house and my amazing garage studio that we rented since August 2018. Even though I was quite disappointed to loose [...]
Start in the Mess – Using Writing to Figure it Out
Something to try this weekend: forget the neat lines of your life that look good from the outside. Forget the places where you think you have things figured out. What are the things you don’t know, the questions that pull at you? Is there a fictional place you can create for these questions to play out in some way? Where might that energy take you?
The Isolated Artist
Starving for Attention This type of isolation has nothing to do with the pandemic. Artists are isolated from their audience. Visual art has a broken feedback loop. Entertainers, singers, musicians, actors receive immediate reactions from their audience. They get to hear and see how their performance is resonating with the [...]
Back to Work
Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Back to work this week. I’ve had a nice break and made good progress on non-writing goals, but my list of things to do is filling fast and deadlines are calling. Usually I work on whatever interests me. I choose from a big [...]
A Colorful Summer
So far, this summer has been full of new challenges, new places to visit and three successful public art installations. Our journey began the first week of June, when we left St Pete to do a site visit for a future project in Chattanooga TN (more details in the next [...]
Looking Back
Halcyon Days I came across this old magazine interview from 2008. I thought it was interesting to see what I was thinking and doing back then. I was surprised at how humorous and brash my answers were, especially the, "iron is my ally", that part made me cringe. I think [...]
Mama Has No Favorites
My latest book, Broken Fevers, has 14 stories. I chose them and the collection’s order. Some stories didn’t make the cut, so other than that I have no favorites (as far as you’ll ever know). Why am I telling you this? Because reviews give me the opportunity to see which [...]
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or My Misadventures in Social Connecting And the Installation Blog #26
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon OR My Misadventures in Social Connecting AND The Installation Blog #26 July 11, 2021 By Emily Lee Stehle We were done with Blog #25, so I thought. But some things have happened since then that will complete Part 1 of my Emerging Artist journey. My [...]
2021 Lambda Literary Awards
July 9, 2021 by Sarah Gerard I felt shy about this when it happened so didn't post about it, but since the ceremony replay lives forever online — and celebrates dozens of other incredible authors, including Florida's own T Kira Madden — here it is... https://youtu.be/F6kuSKNaTPI I was very [...]