Performing & Fine Arts
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HOPE.
Hope is the thing with feathers… Emily Dickinson is one of my all time favorite poets. I’ve been reading from her complete collection this week, finding myself nodding my head in affirmation of…
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Mosh Pit Philosophy
I have officially run out of excuses, so today I started a major clean-up of my home office and studio. But, because I’m still not feeling very motivated (I was sick most of…
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Tidying Up
My friend, who I used to be in a band with years ago, was looking through old manuscripts and sheet music, and she found some stuff I was writing. She gave it back…
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San Marcos Art Center Opens
I am thrilled to share the news with you that the San Marcos Art League (Texas) has recently fulfilled a decade-long goal of opening their own physical gallery and meeting space, right on…
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New Art Center Coming Soon
Good news for art lovers in Central Texas — the San Marcos Art League is opening a permanent gallery for our member artists to display and sell their work! The storefront on Guadalupe…
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Art Collecting Game
Laurence King Publishing has come out with a new board game, kind of like Monopoly, where you can play at collecting fine art. Artsy has an article all about it here: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-globetrotting-billionaire-art-collector-new-board-game
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Painting the Town
Aymaran architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre, a mostly self-taught Bolivian artist, has been gradually transforming the city of El Alto from a drab, boxy display of mid-century industrialism into a colorful, uplifting expression of his native…
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Sudanese Artists Lead Revolution
Earlier this year, the BBC reported on the way artists –painters and musicians, mostly– have taken over the city of Khartoum in the Sudan of Africa in support of the revolution taking place there.…
