Art, Teaching and Meditation
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mindfulness practice and creative strategies for the connected worlds of art and life.
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| art weekthun at atlanta shambhala center 2009 |
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| Fungi @ Atlanta Shambhala Center |
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Vesna Jovanovic and Renee Prisble Una present new work
investigating the changing world between states of being.
Feburary 27- March 20, 2009
Closing Reception: March 20, 5:30-7:30
Crown Center Gallery • 1001 West Loyola Avenue • Chicago, IL 60626 • 773-508-7510
Gallery Hours: 10am-7pm M-F, 12-4pm Sat & Sun and by appointment
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artXposium 2008
On its second edition this year, artXposium is a 3-day multimedia art experience with more than 80 participating artists. Local, national and international talent will come together from September 19th to the 21st to display a variety of art work ranging from traditional painting, sculpture, and photography to interactive, multimedia, and sound installations. This years event also include the inaugural month long international artist-in-residence program featuring Danish artist Gudrun Hasle at the West Chicago City Museum.


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One of the great things about teaching this class is not only the added experience I'll be gaining, the great students, and the money, but I will be making some ceramic art for the first time in a while.Labels: art, art practice, art studio, ceramics, planning, practice, sculpture, selling, teaching
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Shipping Label Piece #1
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After I worked to this point, I quit and walked home through the cool and rainy evening.Labels: art, art studio, discipline, effort, inspiration, sculpture

Today was a fun day in the studio. Above is the new configuration of Sentient for the exhibit at Northeastern. Anna Poplawska will be writing about the work in Yoga Chicago. She writes about spirituality and art and has a monthly column in Yoga Chicago. She came to my studio today and I am pretty excited.Labels: art, art practice, art studio, chicago, conversation, criticism, exhibit
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Why we like art less when its price goes down
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I was in a juried encaustic show at Conrad Wilde Gallery, which is a really nice contemporary gallery, which mainly features encaustic work.
The opening was really well attended, there was about 200 people.
My mom, had an opening the same night. She makes encaustic work too!
Her triptych sold!Labels: art, art practice, encaustic, exhibit, tucson
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I find his work incredibly American, and it is not secret, that I am an idealist American, and I love being an American. His work captures American scenes and psychological space. After seeing his body of work, I felt like I knew him. I really feel like he was always right there with his subjects. That he wasn't an estranged visitor to the scenes and characters, but that he too dined with locals late at night,
or sat lonely in a hotel room,
or chatted with bathers on the east coast. I felt that he was right there with capturing what was current, because he was doing it. In the 50's towards the end of his career, he began painting western-route 60-esque travel and motel scenes. Just as America was embracing the car and newly paved and connecting roads.
He seems redundantly American- being as he appears in photos,
"Joe American", he seems to live the American life of the time, and then he cinematicly captures it in paint.
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