Judith Ferrara Visual Artist and Writer

Judy's Journal Index

2009
January	Ethics and the Purchasing of Art

2008
December	A New Tool for Reflecting on Artmaking
November	Circling Back to a Persistent Concern: Report from the Field
October	Four Years and Counting
September	One Long Satisfying Reading Adventure
August	Construction/Deconstruction: Landscape Mosaics
July	Finding the Right Pattern: Organizing a Poetry Manuscript
June	Afterglow: Barcelona and Madrid
May	Afterglow: Madrid and Barcelona
April	Choosing a Format - What Does It Mean?
March	New Work, Productivity and the Creative Process
February	Leaps, Flights, Tumbles in 2007
January	Foreign Policy: An Unintended Portrait.

2007
December	Painting a Poem
November	Reciprocity: An Artist's Book
October	Sound or Silence?
September	Thresholds I Have Crossed
August	Happiness Is a Finished Piece
July	Do You Work Alone or with Others? Discuss.
June	Planning Ahead in Writing and Art Making
May	An Artist and Poet's Identity: What's Alike, What's Different?
April	Making Both Art and Poetry: What's Alike, What's Different?
March	Selling Artwork on the Internet: A Cautionary Tale
February	A Tribute to Donald M. Murray
January	Is It Possible to Be "Arted-Out"?

2006
December	Four Origins: Poem/Painting Pairs
November	Getting Started on a Painting: Some Suggestions
October	Subjects and Themes in Poetry: Some Suggestions
September	Commitment to a Life of Making Art
August	When a Painting Initiates a Series
July	Writing and Ethics
June	Vindication
May	The Stories Behind Paintings
April	National Poetry Month in the U.S.
March	Jumping into the Poetry Pool
February	"What's It For? - A Look at the Difficulties Inherent in a Creative Life"
January	Influences, Inspiration and Role Models

2005
December	Three Weeks of Inspiration
November	Searching for a Subject Until It Finds You
October	One Hundred Years and Counting: Stanley Kunitz
September	Reflection: One Year of Judy's Journal
August	Group Exhibitions: Some Advice
July	Fourteen Tips on Selecting Artwork or Poetry for Submission
June	A Kinship with Rocks
May	Amsterdam Acrostic
April	Acceptance
March	Rejection and the Creative Process
February	Reciprocity Between Paintings and Poems: An Explanation
January	Museum Shoes

2004
December	Getting Rid of Elvis: Revision in Writing and Painting
November	Tribute to the Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York
October	Why Keep a Journal?
September	Introduction