Thoughts about art and community.
In that spirit, I’m beginning For the Common Good, a new series of community artist interviews. Each month, you’ll learn how and why these artists work in communities, how their creative practice informs their lives, and tips for communities to better collaborate with artists.
Read MoreToday is a brief checklist on how to prepare for a potential disaster situation. This is a very general overview aimed to touch on topics that young, emerging, and/or procrastinating artists may not have considered or gotten around to. Next week, we’ll dive into what to do when you find yourself in catastrophe.
Read MoreI wanted to write a quick post about ways you can support artists experiencing catastrophic situations. Since COVID began, there have been many, many emergency grant opportunities for artists and creatives. Natural disasters require different navigation, and natural disasters + pandemic is overwhelming.
Read MoreIn prepping this final installment, I cast the net far and wide to all my artist friends, seeking their personal stories of all the ways we can better support artists. I opened a Pandora’s box of insight, hilarity, and cautionary tales, both from the perspective of collectors AND artists.
Read MoreArt in your home or office should reflect your values, not necessarily your sofa fabric. Knowing who you are and what you’re about can be an easy way to begin, and define, your collection.
Read MoreAbove all, your art collection should reflect your values. Only you know what’s important to you - social justice, sustainability, your hometown, your faith, your family.
Read MoreAccording to David L. Cohn, the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg, MS. The geographically isolated “Delta”, as called by locals, is an alluvial plain used historically for cotton plantations in northwestern Mississippi along the Mississippi River.
Read MoreAs an artist, I love artist-in-residence (AIR) programs because they combine two favorite pastimes: making art and travel….As a community arts nerd, I believe AIRs can benefit communities even more than they artists they serve.
Read MoreGuest post by is Naomi Friend, a professional artist in central Iowa. Naomi explores the prairies of the Midwest through art-making. She is inspired by the ecosystems, plants, and animals that make up the texture of our landscape. She seeks to investigate the role of humans as caretakers of creation.
Read MoreBelow are some helpful categories to consider when planning a creative community engagement event, project, or program. Take what works, leave the rest. Add more.
Read MoreI’m late to the party in reading the Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown. (Pro tip: get thyself a copy of this and read immediately. I don’t care your backstory. It applies to you too.)
Read MoreIn 2010, I started hanging around with some theatre-makers. Outside of performing in elementary school plays, seeing the occasional production as a grown person, and watching Waiting for Guffman, my theatre knowledge was scant, at best.
Read MoreI don’t often like to speak in generalities, but I would venture to guess that we all have that pull to some place, and that those emotional ties give us inklings about what we value.
Read MoreI am an artist/teacher turned artist/teacher/community art investigator who grew up in Mississippi and has found herself in Iowa for the last 12 years. (I thought I’d be in Iowa for a year. So it goes.)
Read MoreWelcome to the What’s Good Project. This has a been lifetime in the making, so for real, welcome. I’m glad you’re here.
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