YouTube Interview: Teach Me Something New with Clara Benali
Many thanks to Clara Benali of Your Intimate Freedom for inviting me as a guest on your YouTube channel! So much fun chatting all things creativity and inner passion with you.
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A Note on the Blog Archive and Content
A Note on the Blog Archive and Content A note on the blog archive and content: Many of the blog posts you see below were written in 2018, at a time when I was just beginning to shift into dedicated time for "my own" creative impulses. After many years as a shadow...
on with the lights
On Tuesday, I was talking with a dear friend about all the good things: lighting up, and zooming in, and playing in the deep and in the shallow, and surrender. About cyclical nature and creativity and commitment and devotion. About how in the artist's life, sometimes...
to lose a decade…
Last night, I dreamt that someone asked me my age. In the dream, I couldn't remember how old I was... I calculated and ran the numbers, hesitated, and ran them again. "I'm 36." I woke up thinking I was 36. I walked downstairs, thinking I was 36. I made my coffee,...
You’re Invited: Artist Talk 11/23/24 for RE•CLAIM Exhibit at New Dawn Arts Center
You're Invited: Artist Talk with Alana Garrigues for RE•CLAIM Exhibit at New Dawn Arts CenterSaturday, November 23 at 4 pm 84 Main Street in Ashburnham, MA All are invited to an Artist Talk about the RE•CLAIM solo show currently on view in the Grassroots Gallery at...
Prints for Your Home: Bring Nature Inside with Tree Ring Prints
Prints for Your Home: Bring Nature Inside with Tree Ring Prints by Alana Garrigues Looking for a way to make sanctuary in your home? Seeking out ways to support living artists, small presses, and nature in the midst of all the chaos outside? Earlier this year, I...
Renacimiento through November 10 at Jean McDonough Arts Center
Renacimiento through November 10 at Jean McDonough Arts Center So, so, so grateful to El Salón and Casita Cultura Latina for putting out an open call for Renacimiento (Rebirth), an art exhibit in downtown Worcester as part of Día de los Muertos events, and including...
Flora and Fauna through December 14 at Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery
Flora & Fauna thru December 14 at Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery Colors and birds and trees and creatures and flowers... oh my! This group exhibit is a true beauty, just in time for a burst of color as the last of the autumn leaves fall from the trees and we...
{news and the muse}: october 18, 2024
This is an archived copy of the {news and the muse} letter that went out to subscribers on October 18, 2024.Hello dear one, Did you know? I'm having a show!! One Friday in late September, I loaded my car with 28 pieces of art (mostly painting, but also assemblage),...
{news and the muse}: july 25, 2024
This is an archived copy of the {news and the muse} letter that went out to subscribers on July 24, 2024.Hello beloved one, I promised brief-ish, and I promised newsy over muse-y this time around, so let's get right into it... I *FINALLY* have a way for you to shop...
{news and the muse}: june 1, 2024
This is an archived copy of the {news and the muse} letter that went out to subscribers on June 1, 2024. Fair warning... this is a longer-form email, and it's more muse than news. It might best be considered in a member of the essay family, in quasi-list form. Inside,...
Sitting with Discomfort when the Art isn’t “Me”
Sitting (or Rather Not Sitting) with Discomfort when the Art isn't "Me" I recently created some artwork that has been released into the public sphere that I'm thinking about taking down...Some of the circles in the WCA Massachusetts "The Mother Cycle" 6000 Circle...