Monthly Archives: July 2010

Samuel May in Pate de Verre

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

Samuel Joseph May was a Unitarian abolitionist minister in the 1800’s.  Over the years I’ve been collecting stories of friendship throughout history and was very moved by May’s friendship with the revolutionary abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; a friendship marked with … Continue reading →

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Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Work of Art?”

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

The Bravo channel has decided to put out there a television show of competing artists in the spirit of many so called “reality” TV shows.  “Let’s have selected artists compete and the winner gets $100,000 and a solo show at … Continue reading →

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Manhattan vs. Manhattan

Posted on July 27, 2010 by

So over the past months I’ve had the opportunity to be in two different “Manhattans” in our fair country.  I found myself asking several questions like, “What is a sense of place to an artist?” and “What is the artists … Continue reading →

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? – Well, I liked it…

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

At the exhibition “Both, And” that I had in the month of June at the Newport Visual Art Center there was a small visitor registry.  You could write the date, your name, the city you were from and a comment.  … Continue reading →

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This Time It’s Personal

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

I look at things as analogies: landscapes, objects, and stories I read as symbols of the human experience and who we are as people.  I was recently struck at the landscape found on my families farm in Kansas and what … Continue reading →

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Kienholz’s Wear and Tear

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

While in New York I was pleasantly surprised to run into an artist, Ed Kienholz that had a profound affect on me in undergraduate, and even more so in graduate school at Washington State University.  I had an instructor Bob … Continue reading →

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Drawing as Prayer

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

I often find in my little black book I carry around it is easier to draw a prayer than write one.  Here is one such example.

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