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Fed on dreams [poem by Tracy Danison]
place du Châtelet (c) Tracy Danison, 2015 For Stacey Harwood, there then and here now I saw you 25, Stace, at place du Châtelet,This same morning, on my way to work.Striding along in a…
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“Poem for D. L.” [by James Cummins]
POEM FOR D. L. ("Then Ingmar Bergman shows up …") The answer to every riddle lay inside our bodies: Life, the continuation of life … I wake at three a.m. with the guilt of…
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Nin Andrews in Conversation with Nicole Santalucia
Nicole Santalucia (L) and Deanna Dorangrichia (photo (c) Cheryl Pawlowski NA: Tell me about the title. When did it come to you? NS: At the last minute. First, the title was Looking for Lima…
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Unleash Creativity Part 5: Enter Windows Instead of Doors [by Tess Callahan]
As he explains in his TEDx talk, “Embrace the Shake,” when artist Phil Hansen could no longer do his pointillist drawings due to nerve damage in his hand, he learned countless other ways to…
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Unleash Creativity Part 4: Limit your Palette [by Tess Callahan]
When artist Xu Bing was asked by the Chinese government to create two phoenix sculptures for the atrium of the new World Financial Center in Beijing, he accepted, but when he visited the site…
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Unleash Creativity Part 3: Impose Time Constraints [by Tess Callahan]
My teacher Roy Kinzer routinely warmed us up for our life painting class with a series of timed gesture drawings beginning with lightning fast poses. He required us to use large paper and to…