Along with continuing to read (just finished Annie Proulx’s Barkskins), I’ve just happened to start using my hands to do more than hold a book, write, and type on a keyboard. It started with short workshops held by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas to augment one’s experience of their various exhibitions. There, I made
Category: Open Arts
I crawled through the second book after Mr Mercedes. With the travel and the home buying and Peace & Justice, well, sorry Mr King. I did enjoy Finders Keepers now that I’ve had the chance to read it! Thank goodness no one else at the library was itching to read this, since I renewed it 3
When I go to the grocery store, I try to let the price of produce / seasonality drive my choices. I am not perfect– I like a winter basket of Chilean grown blueberries like any sane person, but I try. Cilantro was 4 bunches for 1$ – that is where the story begins. I can’t
Roughly 40 hours later and I am just getting into my spot for the next few days – a cozy, gutted bus in Montgomery. The trip was only supposed to take 20 hours, but lucky me I got nearly twice the amount of time traveling for the same price ! The bus driver left us
After the heavy reading of Winter, I decided on a whim to spend the $5.97 cover price for A Wrinkle in Time. I had not previously read this book. I was reminded of an Oprah interview in which she spoke about the movie project when I saw the trailer for it. Like other Oprah selections,
Last night I stayed on 39th between 8th and 9th before hopping a bus to Montgomery. I have to admit, though I grew up looking at Manhattan and then moved there — I have never slept with this close a view of the Empire State Building. I am on the bus as I write this
I confess, open arts intimidated me just a little. As a humanities professor I teach, among other things, appreciation of the arts. I lament that my students don’t always even bother to participate and really` seek out opportunities to experience in the art that surround us everyday. Yet, I too am guilty of preferring to
I have been so pleased with the choice for the the third Nasher Prize, awarded by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. I had first learned of his work in a documentary piece on PBS a few years ago, and was captured by the combination of sculpture, pottery, performance art and urban development in his
Hi friends, Now that the reading challenge has ended we will begin Spring Open Arts! This time before our Summer Reading Challenge can be used to post about anything you like– art you are working on, or art you are appreciating. Let’s think of Open Arts as a way to foster art literacy. Have fun,
It is ModPo season and we are in full swing studying the NY School this week. I have been exploring tons of poetry inside and outside the course and wanted to share a few findings. I got this book called The Poetry of Black America from the library in Woodland. Here are some of my
Seasonal Reading 