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ARTiculate: Full article here

ARTiculate: Full article here

Published August 19, 2016

Artists, I hope you’ll enjoy my article ARTiculate: Write and speak your way to confidence. Originally published by Professional Artist Magazine, it features artwork and quotes from artists Gabe Fernandez, Tallmadge Doyle and Jabu Mzilikazi. Did you know that appearing to be confident could actually help you become more confident? As I say in the article: “Courage improvises. […]

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Can Creativity Be Taught?

Can Creativity Be Taught?

Published July 5, 2016

The following article, “Can Creativity Be Taught?” first appeared in Professional Artist Magazine, Aug/Sept 2015. I’m particularly fond of this one because I get to mention ArtCore, an integrated arts program for middle schools. I helped to write the initial grant for ArtCore. Maybe this should’ve been titled, “Art Teachers Will Save the World.” Next […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Costuming of Emancipatory Politics

RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Costuming of Emancipatory Politics

Published June 6, 2016

  After 8 Seasons on Logo TV, it’s high time RuPaul’s Drag Race received recognition as important contemporary art. Socially engaged art often uses the structures of society as the very medium of the work, and yet Drag Race is radical enough to have fooled many into regarding the work as mere campy entertainment. RuPaul […]

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Creativity and the Business of Art: Free Video Series

Creativity and the Business of Art: Free Video Series

Published April 12, 2016

Artist Alexis Castillo decided to put together a free educational video series for artists, Creativity and the Business of Art.  (Update: Alexis rebranded as Art Business Essentials) She found a range of experts to speak on this subject, and I’m happy to say that I am interviewed as a part of this group. Alexis and I had […]

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A Call for Ageist-Free Arts in the Silicon Shire

Published February 10, 2016

I’d like to share a story of an experience I had in the Minneapolis airport in 2015. In my memory, I even gave it a title: Outsourced to My Decorator. It wasn’t exactly traumatic, or all that different from the usual overheard-at-the-airport experience, but for me it was a moment of ringing cultural contrast and reverberating […]

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The Center for Mediocrity

The Center for Mediocrity

Published November 11, 2015

The Center for Mediocrity is my invention as a homework assignment. I’m enrolled in “Art of the MOOC: Merging Public Art and Experimental Education”, a collaboration of Duke University and Creative Time New York. This week’s module is Fictions, Alternative Structures and Mock-Institutions. We were asked to make up a country, church, or organization and […]

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The Virtual Cauldron

The Virtual Cauldron

Published October 20, 2015

Austin Kleon wrote Steal Like an Artist. I stole from him. I like Mr. Kleon’s newsletter format, so I’m trying it out here in this blog post. His book is in its 17th printing with over 400,000 copies in print. Dwell on that for a moment; people in huge numbers are reading and thinking about creativity […]

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How Artists Use Twitter (Reprint)

How Artists Use Twitter (Reprint)

Published August 31, 2015

My article on Twitter was originally published in Professional Artist Magazine, Oct/Nov 2014. It is directed toward artists and those interested in contemporary art, who don’t “get” Twitter. In 2015, the piece won an award for best feature design, so congratulations to Art Director Kristen Schaeffer-Santoni and featured artist Marie Kazalia. (I can’t share the […]

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The Collaboration of Artists Amanda Marie and X-O

The Collaboration of Artists Amanda Marie and X-O

Published May 26, 2015

On view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: “The Many Places We Are” is a two-artist exhibition that explores the concept of emotional travel and the bonds that are developed as you move through a physical space. Amanda Marie and X-O, artists who have traveled extensively together, explore the concept by combining their signature […]

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A Taste for the Real: Kenneth Baker on a degredation of engagement

A Taste for the Real: Kenneth Baker on a degredation of engagement

Published May 24, 2015

  Next week I’ll attend Superscript: Arts Journalism and Criticism in a Digital Age. This three-day international conference will be held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The event promises to raise questions about the role of the arts writer, and examine how the Web has changed the way artists tell their stories. […]

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