What's creativity got to do with it in 2019?
The only antidote to destruction is creation. Stephen Nachmanovitch The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a...
ARTLIFE NEWS #5: What have I left out?!
THE ART+LIFE CHART This chart is a perpetually ongoing work in progress that hangs on the door in my teaching studio in north Boulder....
ARTLIFE NEWS #4 The Price of Admission
This mask was painted by a man at a mini Burning Man festival in the wilds of New Mexico. He made this mask of himself to wear during a...
Artlife News #1: A tale of $2
We’re currently creating pass-along journals in the Crossing into Creativity program. Participants exchange journals at each meeting, add...
THE ARTLIFE BLOGS: a journey of 1,000 miles that's gonna end in 2018
I read an article at the New York Times yesterday* about how ineffective willpower and effort are, for implementing New Year’s...
THE ARTLIFE BLOGS: Mind Map, Squared
I love accidentally discovering new ways to do things. I made a mind map* recently. It took three versions to get to a completed,...
Talking, yes Turkey, on Thanksgiving
I’ve grappled with writing about the election for the last sixteen days, since You Know What befell us here in the land of the now...
Great Blue Heron: Only in Dying, Life
Many years ago, I went into what looked like an antique store, off the plaza in Santa Fe. Inside, a museum-like world of ancient...
two interfacing worlds
Recently a friend and I went for a lazy Saturday afternoon drive through Rocky Mountain National Park, near where we live. It was a...
What does artlife have to do with the refugee crisis?
The real task of art is to create a new, a meta-reality, combining the world as received with the life of the mind…How can we loose the...
