Category: Entertainment
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The Creative Center at University Settlement
Based in Bowery, NY, The Creative Center believes that medicine may heal the body but art heals the soul. They started out with free art classes to ladies with cancer and grew to include artist-in-residence programs in over 20 healthcare centers. The Creative Center also hosts galleries… …that sell the paintings of these cancer and illness…
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The Makehouse :: Rest for Weary Artists
If you’re creating art of any kind in the New Jersey, Eastern Penn, or New York areas, you might check into a Makehouse residency. The Makehouse brings together a diverse community of artists, fostering an environment of generosity and non-judgement. Emphasis on the word “environment.” They make house like this by hosting retreats out in this Thoreauvian-style…
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Your First 1000 Copies
Several of you have asked what I think about self-publishing and whether I would recommend any resources for selling your first 1000 copies. I have strong opinions concerning self-publishing that I’ll withhold for now and defer instead to some outside resources like Tim Grahl’s book. Your First 1000 Copies sounds like an audacious title. But…
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Royalty Exchange :: Are Artists Commodities?
Many of you already know this, but a new site opened up recently called Royalty Exchange which allows professional investors to bid on – and win – percentages of creative and commodity-generating estates. Think “Sinatra’s discography” for the former and “the mineral rights to Joplin” for the latter. Royalty Exchange is great news for investors,…
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A Christmas Carol Stave 2 : The First of the Three Spirits
Keeping with my pseudo-tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year I’m doing A Christmas Carol. The whole story’s kind of long, so I’m breaking it up into its component staves (It’s a carol, remember?) Here’s A Christmas Carol stave 2, The First of the Three Spirits. I always think of A Muppet Christmas Carol on the first of…
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Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest
Nick Ripatrazone, author of Good People (a book of stories) and the novella We Will Listen For You, wrote a piece for The Millions back in April entitled “Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest.” I bring it up because it fits right into our goal here of encouraging artists and there are a ton of you…
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A Christmas Carol Stave 1 : Marley’s Ghost
Keeping with my tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year I’m doing A Christmas Carol. Of course, even Dickens’ oral manuscript that he modified original is still pretty dang long, so I’m going to have to break this sucker up into its component staves. (It’s a carol, remember?) Here’s A Christmas Carol stave 1, Marley’s Ghost. Marley’s ghost always…
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Art History : it’s a method, not a subject
Today’s encouragement for all of you artists is a weird one, but a good one if you take a couple of moments to reflect with me on art history and change. We will compare two quotes—one is a poem and one comes from a philosophical work. Then in the comments, we’ll reflect on how these two are linked.…
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CASTING CALL :: Joplin, MO Film Shoot
:: CASTING CALL :: Production title: Untitled Heist / Adventure Union / Non-Union: Non-Union Posted: Friday, November 25th, 2014 Production location: JOPLIN, MO Company: …
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BOOK CLUB !!!!
For those of you who like reading novels, I host a book club group on Facebook. It’s super laid back with plenty of time to fit a novel into your busy schedule – a book club for people who DO NOT HAVE TIME for book club. As I post this, we’re having a discussion on “The Fault…
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New Free Stories from Conference Readings
For the convenience of my fellow conference attendees, I added the stories that I read during the Bedtime Stories reading series.