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Art, it’s a Job Art doesn’t make itself. It takes planning, time and effort to create. For an artist working alone in the studio, nothing happens unless you make it… Read More

This week we head to Austin for Trio’s premiere at The Filigree Theatre. Early in the week, director Elizabeth V. Newman asks me to write the playwright’s notes for the… Read More

How I started as an artist. I am excited to be selected as one of the grant recipients and want to begin with an introduction.  Originally from Miami I have… Read More

Being a Creator When you are a creator you are constantly in the process of bringing art into being. From the thinking and planning stages to the actual production phase,… Read More

Inspiration #2: Reading It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: the best writers read. What is the impulse of the person who says she wants to write a… Read More

Gogo My late grandfather (Gogo) was the coolest person I’ve ever known – he was cool when I was sixteen, and to this day I’ve never met anyone who comes… Read More

Failure is the Best Teacher The skeleton photographed below was once a beautiful model. But after I set the bulky 4- x 5-inch camera on a tripod, calculated the exposure… Read More