Because creation, both capital C and small c, is continuous, there is no such category as non-creativity not even amidst a waste land. The all of life, included death, bleeds… Read More
Old Box #2: Candid “I” Exams
Archives: Articles
Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Igniting New Life
As we strolled through the soft white sand towards the calm water at Treasure Island beach, the clear skies above seemed to promise the perfect backdrop for a sunset –… Read More
A New Home for Lens-Based Art
By Beth Reynolds. Large, bright rooms, all on one floor, a parking garage one block away that is only $1 an hour – what’s not to love about the new Florida Museum of Photographic Arts location in Ybor City?… Read More
“I’ve got forests growing inside me”
By Sara Ries Dziekonski. These are poems from the workshop I facilitated at the Gulfport Senior Center, by a wonderful group of four women. Every week we read poems, wrote poems on our own and community poems, and shared our creations…. Read More
Favorite Arts Experiences in Pinellas County
We’re celebrating the vibrant artists and arts organizations in our county by sharing favorite Pinellas arts experiences. … Read More
Accelerate: who me?
I search for time. Not the gap of fifteen minutes between boiling pasta and serving dinner, but time like a safari, two or three hours tracing my steps in the… Read More
Old Box #1: A Difficult Love
A friend of mine, a local photographer, and I were brainstorming a name for a new photography magazine. Back and forth, in a cafe, the math of verbal volley. No… Read More
Opportunity, Inspiration, Discipline, and Anxiety Ahead
I’m not sure which feeling came first: honored or startled. A few weeks ago, I sat through a rather intense online experience with many invisible peers, as we watched a… Read More
Continuing the Painting Process
The Next Step In my last blog/story, “Beginning the Painting Process”, I outlined the first steps to creating a finished still life oil painting. There I took the process from… Read More
An Ode to Our Library System
Being an avid user of our library system, I often find myself led to unexpected literary treasures. In a quest for William Morris’s ‘How We Live and How We Might… Read More
