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2024
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April
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Making a
Reading Connection
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March
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Stop, Look,
and Think #18
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February
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Judith Ferrara,
Marketing Associate
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January
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A Day at the
Met – Fantasy to Reality
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2023
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Nov/Dec
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Faith
Ringgold at the Worcester Art Museum
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October
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Stop,
Look, and Think #17
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September
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When
in Doubt…
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July/August
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A Book
Launch to Remember
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June
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Mother
as Legend: Stanley Kunitz and Yetta Dine |
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May
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If Joseph Cornell…
- a Series
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April
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The Heart
Is a Lonely Hunter (or Not)
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March
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Missing Peter
Schjeldahl
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February
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A Peek into
My Favorite Poem Notebook
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January
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Who Are Your
Influences?
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2022
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December
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“The Beatles:
Get Back” and the Creative Process
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November
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A modicum of
equipoise
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October
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Stop, Look
and Think #16
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September
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Reflections
on Nature
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July/August
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Stop,
Look and Think #15
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June
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Milton Avery,
American Artist, 1885-1965
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May
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #14
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April
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“By
the Book”
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March
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My Imaginary
Writing Group
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February
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“Anxiety
Strips”
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January
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Feeling “Cool”
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2021
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December
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Keeping in
Touch with the Garden
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November
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When a Rock
Is Not Just a Rock.
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October
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #13
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September
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STOP,
LOOK AND THINK #12
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July/August
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Redbud
on the Move
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June
|
STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #11
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May
|
STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #10
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April
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #9
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March
|
STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #8
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February
|
STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #7
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January
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #6
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2020
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December
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #5
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November
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #4
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October
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STOP, LOOK
AND THINK #3
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September
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STOP,
LOOK AND THINK #2
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July/August
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STOP,
LOOK AND THINK #1
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June
|
Time Passes
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May
|
2020 May: Why
Art?
|
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April
|
Scribbling
in Air
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March
|
Crisscrossing
the Arts
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February
|
The Genesis
of a Book
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January
|
The Plan
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2019
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December
|
Limbo
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November
|
Artists’
Studios
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October
|
Accepting Myself
as Numerous
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September
|
Experimenting
with Art Tissue
|
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July/August
|
Looking
Back at 15 Years as a Blogger
|
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June
|
Separation
|
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May
|
Hilma af Klint
Retrospective at the Guggenheim
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April
|
Graciela
Iturbide, Genius
|
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March
|
When a Tree
Is Not Just a Tree
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February
|
From the Bookshelf
|
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January
|
Joyce Carol
Oates and Happiness
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| |
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2018
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December
|
December 2018
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November
|
Thank you again,
Donald M. Murray
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October
|
Bibelots: Small
Objects of Curiosity
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September
|
Notebooks
I Have Known
|
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July/August
|
The
Royal Treatment
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June
|
Finally, Spring
|
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May
|
Too Many Hats?
Painter, Writer, Poet
|
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April
|
Art and Grief
|
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March
|
A New Decade
Begins: Poetry
|
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February
|
A New Decade
Begins: Writing
|
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January
|
A New Decade
Begins: Art
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2017
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December
|
Reality and
Imagination in Painting
|
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November
|
“Donald
Murray’s Legacy”
|
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October
|
GASP!
|
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September
|
“It
must be so relaxing.”
|
|
July/August
|
Seidman
Cancer Center and Art
|
|
June
|
Ice and Wind:
Mother Nature Speaks (Again)
|
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May
|
Creating an
Environment for Living
|
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April
|
Art as a
Shield
|
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March
|
Inspiration
|
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February
|
Alternative
Venues for Artists and Poets
|
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January
|
A Restaurant
with Something Extra
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| |
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2016
|
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December
|
2016 –
December Tribute to Josephine Ferrara Schifferle
(1916-1989)
|
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November
|
What’s
so great about “Night Watch”?
|
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October
|
Massasoit,
Metacom and Stanley Kunitz
|
|
September
|
Josephine
Baker Makes an Appearance
|
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August
|
Traveling
On
|
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July
|
Tourist or
Traveler?
|
|
June
|
The Peabody
Essex Museum and Amsterdam
|
|
May
|
Interior
|
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April
|
Feeling Sympathetic
Vibrations While Reading a Book
|
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March
|
Crawling
Under the Barbed Wire
|
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February
|
Tchaikovsky
and His Boundless Bliss
|
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January
|
Words to Create
By - A Monthly Series
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2015
|
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December
|
The Red Binder:
A Look at Obsession
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November
|
Giving Yourself
Assignments
|
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October
|
Daily Rituals
|
|
September
|
“Where’s
Papa going with that ax?”
|
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August
|
Coloring Books
for Grown-ups
|
|
July
|
A Kernel Waiting:
The Creative Process
|
|
June
|
About Gallery
Chapter 9
|
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May
|
The little
O, the earth: Travel Journals, Art & Poems
|
|
April
|
Destinations |
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March
|
“Taking
Pärt in Music”
|
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February
|
ANNIVERSARY
|
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January
|
What I Love
about Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)
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2014
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December
|
Poems
by Judith Ferrara; Lessons from Stanley Kunitz
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November
|
How to
“Own” an Artwork
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October
|
The Urge
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September
|
A Woman’s
Notebook
|
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August
|
120th Blog
= 10 Years
|
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July
|
Side
by Side
|
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June
|
Collage =
Balance
|
|
May
|
The Blink of
an Eye
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April
|
My
Favorite Paintings |
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March
|
Fever
Dream |
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February
|
A
Tribute to Yusef Lateef |
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January
|
Hope
for the Future |
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2013
|
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December
|
The
Mahler Series
|
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November
|
What's
Next?
|
|
October
|
Embracing
Stanley Kunitz |
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September
|
George
Gershwin, Robert Schulz and Me
|
|
August
|
Decades
of Relationships
|
|
July
|
Writing
a Monthly Blog
|
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June
|
The Impermanence
of Art
|
|
May
|
Surrendering
to Cézanne
|
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April
|
Preparing
for a Poetry Reading
|
|
March
|
Where to
Sign
|
|
February
|
Ray Bradbury’s
Inner Child
|
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January
|
Publishing
a Second Collection of Poems
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2012
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December
|
From
Genesis to Publication: A Poem’s Long
Road
|
|
November
|
A Museum of
Memory and Friendship
|
|
October
|
Artist Statement
- A Revision
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September
|
The Art Collector
|
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August
|
The
Burchfield Penney and Me
|
|
July
|
Artmaking
Is Everywhere
|
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June
|
Art
Is Everywhere
|
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May
|
No Grandmother
Poems!
|
|
April
|
Images
for My Travel Manuscript
|
|
March
|
Progress
Report: The 3-Genre Travel Manuscript
|
|
February
|
Putting the
Happy in Happy Birthday
|
|
January
|
The Road Not
Taken
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| |
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|
2011
|
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December
|
The Perfect
Venue
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November
|
Standing at
the Edge
|
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October
|
Beginning a
Manuscript
|
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September
|
Autobiography:
Paintings by Judith Ferrara
|
|
August
|
Elizabeth
Bishop’s “Paris, 7 A.M."
|
|
July
|
The Fig Tree
|
|
June
|
Finishing
a Series
|
|
May
|
Hello, It’s
Me
|
|
April
|
What Makes
a Great Docent?
|
|
March
|
Inspiration
Is a Daily Freewrite
|
|
February
|
Reflections
on the Autobiography Series
|
|
January
|
Why Blog?
|
| |
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|
2010
|
|
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December
|
Monreale, Sicily
|
|
November
|
A Writer’s
Identity
|
|
October
|
The Experiment
Continues
|
|
September
|
In the Shadow
of Giants
|
|
August
|
Experimentation
|
|
July
|
Zentangle
Spells Relief
|
|
June
|
Communication
= Zero
|
|
May
|
The Wall
|
|
April
|
Let’s
Go to the Movies
|
|
March
|
Dreams: 2D/3D
- An Upcoming Exhibition
|
|
February
|
A Bit of a Challenge
|
|
January
|
Beginning at
the Beginning
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| |
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2009
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December
|
The Right Conditions
|
|
November
|
Alphabet Soup
|
|
October
|
Report from the
Field
|
|
September
|
Five Years and
Counting
|
|
August
|
Translating Experience
into Artwork
|
|
July
|
Mt. Everest
- Beginning the Climb
|
|
June
|
Response to
the Ice Storm: A Collaboration
|
|
May
|
Exploring a New
Medium: Ceramics
|
|
April
|
Another April,
Another National Poetry Month
|
|
March
|
The Artist
Perceived As Salesperson
|
|
February
|
What Art Can
Do for You
|
|
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
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