Is it safe to be real when you are in the public eye?

I am participating in the itty bitty adventure club and my adventure this week was to confront my twitter fears.  Okay, I know that seems…a bit tame, but it is ITTY BITTY!  Okay?! I’m scared of twitter. It seems fast.  And you have to be concise.  And some people twitter A LOT.  But I am not even at the actual tweet stage.  My […]

The sacred adventure of intuitive painting

Author, painter and activist Aviva Gold describes her approach to painting as “painting from the source.” She explains how the “source” goes by many different names depending on viewpoint and culture and she likes to think of the source as a combination of all of them: Great Spirit, the divine, Prana, the unconscious, psyche, consciousness, soul, God, Goddess.   Michele Cassou […]

Why you should make art with other people

When I was in college, I got used to making art around other people. I was lucky to be in an environment that was not competitive, so if someone liked your art, they told you so.  We gave each other feedback, as well as getting feedback from our professors, all the time. When I was out of school on my […]

Burning out and recommiting

Falling down… One area I am particularly interested in researching is how the arts can help people deal with burn out. I have a personal interest in this because I frequently feel totally burned out. After weeks of feeling good, somewhat on top of things, the bottom suddenly fell away and I was devoid of energy, irritable, and uninterested in […]