Art as healing

Art as healing

Art can be an incredible and powerful tool for healing. You can look at art, create art, or teach an art expressive class to help yourself heal. My mother and brother both passed away from stomach cancer after a few weeks of each diagnosis. My brother passed away in 2018 at the age of 48 and my mother in 2023 at the age of 82.

Respect, Collaboration and Representation

Respect, Collaboration and Representation

Respect and collaboration can be surprisingly complicated and time-consuming.  A case in point is the Jones Family mural in Marcellus, MI. A year ago I accepted a commission to redo the mural that depicted a family story, including “Chief Pokamon” wearing buckskin and holding a spear.

The Fight For Respectability and Freedom:  American Life During The Second Great Awakening, Activism, and Women Run Tea Rooms in the 1830s.

The Fight For Respectability and Freedom: American Life During The Second Great Awakening, Activism, and Women Run Tea Rooms in the 1830s.

I draw the curtain. I could show you other pictures more pathetic in their hopelessness, but refrain. Lessons in making home neat and attractive; lessons in making family life stronger, sweeter, and purer by personal efforts of the woman; lessons in tidiness of appearance among women; lessons of clean and pure habits of everyday life in the home, and thus bringing to the women self-respect and getting for them the respect of others; how to keep the girls near the mother, and many other kindred subjects, need to be given to this class of women to-day.”

Normalizing Dis-Ability This National Autism Acceptance Week

Normalizing Dis-Ability This National Autism Acceptance Week

This Autism Acceptance Month is a great opportunity to explore the concepts of nature, spirituality, color, and even how to think about dis-ability in our society. The latter is a personal quest of mine. I have been giving great consideration to what it means to be “normal” or even to be “marginalized,” and what will the womb-men of the world do to raise their voices in humanity’s defense. How will visual culture, art, and text, shape the rhetoric of tomorrow?

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