twitterYou can still see The 2nd Annual Doctors Without Borders Silent Art Auction at MCoffee in Half Moon Bay until December 29 at noon. At that point the bids will close. We are at around $1,500 so far, up $500 from last years event. Even if you are not in the market for art, please [...]
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I found this great artist through a craft magazine tweet.
Sherri Wood embroiders tattoos on fabric dolls drawn by female tattoo artists from around the USA. She writes:
I find cloth bodied baby dolls at thrift shops and send them to tattoo artists who then draw original tattoos directly on the dolls. They send the dolls [...]
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I went into Coastside Books today. I don’t know why. I was hoping I would come upon something quickly that I just had to have. I was supposed to be working on a powerpoint presentation – weird I had not been doing those is a long while and now I find myself doing two presentations [...]
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A fellow JFKU arts and consciousness alumni Lisa Rasmussen has a terrific blog called Art is Moving, A place to dialog about art. She poses some provocative discussion and features many different kinds of artists. Recently she interviewed me on being a green artist. Check it out here:
http://artismoving.blogspot.com/2008/07/green-artist-interview-judy-shintani.html
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I think people have different skills, but if they do not fit into what society deems normal – they get labeled as handicapped. Check out what this “autistic man” does because he is amazing.
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“In 2005 I had been practicing guerilla art techniques on a small scale, while living in a small town. The impetus was threefold. I needed to have a creative outlet that had nothing to do with making a living or attachment to the outcome. I wanted to do something to shake the town up a [...]
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YBCA is having another spectacular party as to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Anna Halprin: At the Origin of Performance. Halprin will present an excerpt of her piece, Awaken, with dancers Iu-Hui (Ue) Chua, Christian Nagler, Terre Parker, Joy Cosculluela and Soto Hoffman in YBCA’s Bamboo Courtyard.
Pioneer of postmodern dance and performance, Halprin is [...]
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