Creativity Forum

July 31, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, through the magic of Twitter, I met business creativity consultant, James Allen, who has an interesting company called Brewhouse Group in London. On his blog, he’s created a forum on the subject of creativity and invited artists and writers to contribute. He’s also posted some great links to other sites [...]

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How To Start A Drawing Club Part Two

July 28, 2010

In Part One we looked at how to get a drawing club up and running— finding a space, setting a time, inviting a few folks over, committing to weekly meetings and getting the necessary supplies. Next, we need to consider what we’ll do each week. First, if you’re leading the group you need to decide. [...]

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How To Start a Drawing Club

July 17, 2010
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Mahatma Gandhi Art

May 25, 2010

Yes, this is Mahatma Gandhi! My friend, Maggie Stern, made him from clumps of felted wool. I don’t know how she did this except to say that I have seen her poke clumps of wool with a needle. Maggie is in our Saturday Morning Drawing Club in which we draw and make various experiments with [...]

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A Book, An Artist, A Trench

May 19, 2010

This book, Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) arrived this week. It’s the catalogue for Maira Kalman’s traveling exhibition now at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and coming next spring to New York.  I love her work—the acute observation, the sublime affect, the notice that the world is full of [...]

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Announcing! London Creativity Retreat September 25th + 26th!

April 27, 2010

Here comes the fun! We’re launching the first of The Confident Creative Retreats in London at Dragon Hall, in centrally located Covent Garden, September 25th and 26th! I’m so excited to be able to work with people hands-on as we explore drawing and how it can charge up our creativity. We’ll have two full days [...]

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Arsenal Center for the Arts / Open Studios

April 22, 2010

This weekend we’re having an Open Studios in Watertown/Belmont, MA for the first time. Watertown and Belmont are a stone’s throw from Cambridge and just 10 minutes from Boston, which may be why we who live in these towns have never bothered to do an art event of our own.  We’re small towns and very, [...]

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Sometimes Life Is Just a Diary

April 16, 2010

Sometimes I’m just running around, trying to catch up. I feel that way today. No one will shoot me if I don’t get things done but the next step is dependent on the last. I’m having a lot of interesting experiences at the moment. We all are but sometimes I don’t notice when I am [...]

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London News!

April 11, 2010

Today, the Sunday Express in London has extracted an article from The Confident Creative book. It’s called “Talking Pictures” and appears in S Magazine which accompanies the Sunday paper. I’m heading into Harvard Square this afternoon to see if the British papers have arrived at Out-of-Town News, the old international newsstand right across from Harvard [...]

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London Diary 4: Arshile Gorky and Agnes Magruder (aka Agnes Gorky Fielding)

March 25, 2010

This is the last of the London diary. I was there for a week to promote my book but now I’m back home in Boston and life here is taking over.  First,a couple of torrential rains left the basement flooded! Dear A took care of most of that but I did have to keep my [...]

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