HELEN FRANKENTHALER AND A CRITIC, A PAINTER AND JOHN TRAVOLTA

“The only rule is that there are no rules. Anything is possible…It’s all about risks, deliberate risks.”

This is how Helen Frankenthaler refers to the art she practiced for over 60 years, making history before she was 30 years old. This is my sixth installment of my Weekly Women in Art series.

How did she make history so young? By taking the technique accredited to Jackson Pollock of pouring paint directly onto the canvas, she adapted it to her own needs. Pollack used enamel paint that sat on top of the canvas. Frankenthaler used oil that was thinned with turpentine which soaked into the canvas, seemingly staining the canvas.

“It was all there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there, and master the language.”

That is what she said after seeing the Pollock show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1950 or 1951.

Mountains and Sea

She painted this before her 24th birthday. Measuring 9 feet wide by 7 feet high Mountains and Sea directly affected both Kenneth Nolan and Morris Louis. Louis later said it was a

“Bridge betwen Pollack and what was possible.”

Helen was grew up on the New York’s Upper East Side. Her father was a New York State Supreme Judge, her mother a German emigre’. It is safe to say she had a privileged background!

After graduating from Bennington College, she inherited money from her father (who had died in 1940) and was able to get a New York apartment AND have a separate studio! And, she began painting full-time.

When she organized an exhibition in 1950 at Bennington College she met Clement Greenberg, considered one of the foremost art critics of the day, and began a five year relationship with him. Through him she met Pollock, David Smith, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner and other members of the New York artworld at the time.

When she separated from Greenberg, she met Robert Motherwell and married him in 1958. He was also from a well-to-do family, and they were suddenly the “golden couple” of the artworld. They spent months honeymooning in Spain and France.

When they returned, they left the downtown art scene and moved uptown and began entertaining. British sculptor Anthony Caro recalled a dinner party on his first trip to New York which was attended by over 100 people. He sat between David Smith and Hedy Lamarr.

Helen loved entertaining, and she loved to dance. She attended a function at the White House in 1985 honoring the Prince and Princess of Wales. After dancing with a partner that twirled her around, she said:

“I’ve waited a lifetime for a dance like this. He was Great!!!”

When she returned to New York, she showed her assistant his card – “John Travolta”.

The awards she received are numerous. among them:

First Prize for Painting, Premiere Biennale de Paris, 1959
National Medal of Arts 2001
served on the National Council for the Arts of the National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture 1986
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association 1994

Honorary degrees received include:

Smith College 1973
Radcliffe College 1978
Amherst College 1979
New York Univerisity 1979
Harvard University 1980
Philadelphia College of Art 1980
Yale University 1981
Brandeis University 1982

Her exhibitions are just as impressive

two New York retrospectives before the end of the 1960s, at the Jewish Museum and at the Whitney Museum
Guggenheim Museum 1985 – works on paper retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, 1989

“Being the person I was and am, exposed to the things I have been exposed to, I could only make my painting with the methods – and with the wrist i have.”

“I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.”

“My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates. They’re not nature per se, but a feeling.”

“Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what’s expected of you. That’s a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.”

“There are three subjects I don’t like discussing. My former marriage, women artists, and what I think of my contemporaries.”

Helen Frankenthaler – December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011

Adirondacks 1992

Painted on 21st Street 1951

THINK LIKE THE MINIMALISTS

Minimalism refers to the art movement that thrived on simpllicity. Less is more. This is the 4th installment in my 21 Weeks To Your Most Creative Self.

I’m not advocating changing the way you do your art to be more creative. Just apply the minimalist approach to art to your life. It will lighten your load, it will free your spirit.

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.” Richard Holloway

Live your life like a blank canvas. Clean out, declutter. Make the time and make the space to create. Clutter can make your mind live in the land of old ideas, habits and possessions.

Now, clutter doesn’t happen overnight. It is like a silent stalker, growing stronger and stronger the longer it is ignored. People often keep “THINGS” that were once useful or meaningful. But, as time marches on, your things often don’t.

I began reading about the minimalist approach to living a few months back. I started cleaning out. I got rid of a set of glasses and a set of dishes my husband didn’t even know we had. I took seven bags of clothes to a thrift shop that raises money for animal rescue. I packed up five boxes of books (I really didn’t need a film encyclopedia dated 1996).

I adopted the one in – two out – philosophy. Every time I buy something new, I get rid of two things. (I had 7 pairs of boots – and I live in Atlanta – why????)

I went through picture albums. Gone were photographs from vacations over 15 years ago with someone that is no longer in my life, pictures of people I don’t know. I kept only the photographs that really meant something to me.

Slowly, things started finding a home.

Has this helped my creativity? You bet! There is less stuff to sort through, less stuff to pick up.

People often think that in order to create there needs to be chaos. But, often the opposite can be true. Try it! Get rid of things that are hovering in the back of your closets.

If you are feeling creatively stifled, now might be a good time to tackle an area in your home.

How can you declutter?

Start with things you honestly didn’t know you had (like the set of dishes we had)

Clothes – clean out your closet and get it in order. Put the hangers in backwards. Check in six months – you will know immediately what you haven’t been wearing.

Computer – clean out your emails. Clean off your desktop.

Kitchen – do you have glasses you haven’t used in ages (I did). Do you have multiple cleaning products?

Just remember, physical clutter gathers dust. Simplify! And, if you have things you don’t use but can’t give up – box them up and put them away!

Find a place and a use for everything. I believe it empties your mind, it opens it up to be more receptive to creative ideas.

Get rid of the visual noise around you!

“Three rules of work: out of clutter find simplicity, from discord find harmony, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” Albert Einstein

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak” Hans Hoffman

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci

“The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are.” Mother Theresa

What could you live without? Do you believe it will open up your mind to accept more “things” of a different nature?

CHAOS: Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome

I AM DECLARING A QUEST!

After reading the book The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau I have decided to start a quest. Chris’s quest was visiting every country in the world, which took over 10 years and alot of planning. What is a quest? It basically is to search for something or to achieve a goal. Famous quests include the search for the Holy Grail by King Arthur, Odysseus’s quest in The Odyssey, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Siddhartha’s quest for enlightenment in Herman Hesse’s novel, and Don Quixote’s quest for adventure.

After reading this book, I realized you don’t have to travel the world to have a quest, you don’t have to quit your day job. But, you need a challenge and a goal and it has to resonate with you.

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” Helen Keller

So, what am I going to do? I am going to alphabetically read my way across the United States, finding an author in each state to read. Also I’m going to read a little about each state. I plan on reading a minimum of one book a month as part of my quest. One of the rules of MY quest, I will not re-read anything I have read in the past ten years.

I have another idea for a quest to pursue beginning in 2015. It involves walking where I live – and I’ll share it later.

So, I’m starting with Alabama. Because of the rules I’ve set, the first book will NOT be To Kill a Mockingbird. (I named a dog Scout and adopted one named Atticus). However, I did find an essay written by Mark Childress (who is from Monroeville Al. also Harper Lee’s hometown). Because the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird is based on Harper Lee’s childhood friend Truman Capote, I’m leaning in this direction. (It won’t be In Cold Blood – I’ve read it in the past 10 years!)

Truman Capote

So, expect a post in the near future about Sweet Home Alabama!

Have you done a quest or do you plan a quest in the future? Share it!

“Not all those who wander are lost.” JRR Tolkien

“Everyhing you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?” Rumi

“Say it, reader. Say the word ‘ quest’ out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn’t it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.” Kate DiCamillo

“Funny how ‘question’ contains the word ‘quest’ inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.” Catherynne M. Valente

“Without a quest, there is no epiphany.” Constantine E. Scaros

WHAT’S IN TRACEY EMIN’S BED?

Tracey Emin is never boring, considered shocking by some, This is the fifth installment in the Women in Art Wednesday series.

she’s smiling, not the usual sneer

Born in 1963, she was part of the hip group called YBA’s (Young British Artists).

She studied fashion at what is now called the University for the Creative Arts. Later shemoved to London and received an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art. Working in shop with artist Sarah Lucas, she made extra money writing letters asking for $20 pounds to invest in her life as an artist (don’t you love that?).

In November 1993 she had her first solo show at the White Cube Gallery in London – calling it My Major Restrospective.

“I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.”

The show consisted of personal photographs and photos of early paintings she had destroyed, as well as other personal momentos. (including a pack of cigarettes a favorite uncle was holding when he was decapitated in a car wreck – lovely huh?).

In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With created quite a sensation consisting of a tent with 102 names appliqued on the inside (this was destroyed in the famous Momart fire). Of course, the public thought it was 102 people she’d had sex with, but it was more inclusive than that.

“Some I’d had a shag with in bed or against a wall some I had just slept with, like my grandma. I used to lay in her bed and hold her hand. We used to listen to the radio together and nod off to sleep. You don’t do that with someone you don’t love and don’t care about.”

She gained more exposure later the same year when she swore a few times and stormed off a live television program, apparently drunk. Are you starting to get the picture?

In 1999, she was nominated for the Turner Prize and showed My Bed, which was ownher unmade bed complete with yellow stains, condoms, empty cigarette packs, and blood stained underwear. She had stayed in the bed for several days feeling low possibly after a breakup. Here is an article from the Guairdian about this piece returning to The Tate (it is featured on their landing page).

This isn’t even considered the most famous bed in art history. According to The Guardian, Titian’s Venus of Urbino is.

Other achievements are:

2007 – chosen to join the Royal Academy of Arts in London as a Royal Academician (I had to look it up – I wish we had something like that here in the US)

2007 – represented Britain in the Venice Biennale

from the Venice Bienalle

from the Venice Bienalle

She has lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the European Graduate School in Switzerland and the Tate Britain – usually about the link between creativity and autobiography.

2011 – appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy – one of the first two female professors since it was founded in 1768!

2013 – became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire -that makes her a Dame!

Elton John, George Michael, Jerry Hall and Orlando Bloom are collectors

David Bowie (who is a friend) once described her as: (I am a BIG Bowie fan!)

“William Blake as a woman, written by Mike Leigh”

When she was in a relationship with artist/poet Billy Childish, he started the Stuckism Movement, he said to her?

“Your paints are stuck, you are stuck – Stuck! Stuck!”

To which she has replied:

“I don’t like it at all….I don’t find it funny, I find it a bit sick and I find it very cruel and I just wish people would get on with their lives and let me get on with mine.”

Again, she has worked in many different forms of art, monoprints, painting, photography, neon, fabric, found objects, installations, films, books and sculpture.

“Being an artist isn’t just about making nice things, or people patting you on the back; it’s a kind of communication, a message.”

I googled alot while researching this.. I found you can buy t-shirts and dishes on her website. I also learned there is much more to Tracey Emin than an unmade bed!

Map she did for London’s transit system

from the London Olympics

21 WEEKS TO YOUR MOST CREATIVE SELF – WEEK #3

TAKE A HIKE

Take a walk, a jaunt, a stroll. Get out and strut, saunter, or promenade. I don’t care what you call it, just get up and MOVE!

A recent study at Stanford found creative thinking improves during and after a walk. While participants in the research were leisurely walking on a treadmill, they were instructed to come up with different uses for an object (like a button – which could be a doorknob in a dollhouse, you get the picture). Most of them were able to come up with 60% more uses for the object than participants sitting down. And, the results were similar whether walking indoors or outside (yes, this surprised me too).

So, that explains why Steve Jobs often had walking meetings. So do Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Other walkers?

Beethoven – carried a notepad and composed while walking

Gustav Mahler, who insisted his wife Alma walk with him daily, sometimes as long as five hours

Tchaikovsky walked every morning for 45 minutes and took another walk for 2 hours in the afternoon

Charles Darwin took three walks a day

Woody Allen stopped walking around New York because people recognized him, now he often paces on his terrace

Composer Erik Satie walked from his suburban Parisian home to Montmarte daily, a 6 mile walk. He often missed the train home and walked back at night

“I have walked myself into my best thoughts.” Kierkegaard

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau

“Walking is the best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” Thomas Jefferson

“Now, shall I walk or shall I ride? ‘Ride’ said Pleasure. ‘Walk’ said Joy.” W.H. Davies

“If you seek creative ideas go walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” Raymond I. Myers

“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I would just explode and perish.” Charles Dickens

“I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking.” Ernest Hemingway

So, get up – take a walk!!!!

Do you have a favorite walk or hike? Do you have any walking rituals? Can you tell a difference in the way your mind works after or during a walk?

21 WEEKS TO YOUR MOST CREATIVE SELF – WEEK #2

This is week #2 of the series 21 WEEKS TO YOUR MOST CREATIVE SELF

SHOUT, SHOUT, LET IT ALL OUT!

If you really want to live as a creative, you have to declare it! What matters most is that you think of yourself as an artist! (are you singing the title?)

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.” Steve Pressfield, The War of Art

Does this sound familiar? We all feel like frauds or fakes at some time or another. The fear of being exposed is real. Listen – STOP IT RIGHT NOW!

If you need to create, you are an artist. You don’t have to paint, you don’t have to write, but you have to create something that is uniquely your own. BE PROUD OF IT! SHOUT IT OUT! OWN IT! What you are creating is yours and yours alone!

Stop comparing yourself to others standards. What matters is HOW YOU THINK! Don’t just think of yourself as an artist, say it out loud! It is powerful. Of course the little demons come in and burrow in our thoughts. But if you say I AM AN ARTIST with confidence and power, the demons will recede.

So, claim yourself as a creative. Believe in your creativity – it is a universal trait of humans after all.

So, repeat after me

I AM A CREATIVE PERSON. I BELIEVE IN MYSELF AND MY TALENT. I AM CREATING A CREATIVE LIFE.

If you have to – stand in front of a mirror and say it. Better yet – go back to week #1, FIND YOUR TRIBE and tell them, they will understand.

What will you do this week to shout out to the world you are creative? How will you make the commitment?

WEEK ONE – 21 STEPS TO YOUR MOST CREATIVE SELF

FIND YOUR TRIBE

Call it whatever you like: your clan, network, posse, gang, pack, your family. But take the time to find them!!!! These are the people that accept you as you are and want the very best for you!

The right group will help you:

STAY MOTIVATED

GIVE YOU THE COURAGE TO TAKE RISKS

INSPIRE YOU

ENCOURAGE YOU

GIVE SUPPORT WHEN NEEDED

Finding a community will empower you and give meaning to your work. Your creative work is more than a hobby and they know it!

Your tribe will add momentum to what you are doing. Think of geese that travel in packs. It is said the geese travel 75% faster in a group than when they are alone. So, doesn’t it make sense your creative goals and dreams will come to fruition faster if you find your tribe?

Your tribe should be people you trust, people that genuinely care about you and your work, that will cheer you on. But, remember, reciprocity is key. You also have to encourage, inspire and cheer too, And you must do it honestly (just keep your ego in check and don’t be judgemental).

Being around others opens up the floodgate of more possibilities, ideas and opportunities.

Find a mentor. Pavarotti had mentors throughout his career. Jonathan Williams mentored Robin Williams. Nicholas Cage mentored Johnny Depp. Thomas Edison mentored Henry Ford. Thomas Jefferson mentored Lewis & Clark. Paul Robeson mentored Obama.

Where are you going to find them? First of all, get out of your house, go out into the world.

Case in point – recently the Women’s Caucus For Art in Georgia hosted DrawFourDays. A group of almost 20 women got together for four days and drew . I was unable to take part, but I did visit. What did I find? I saw friendships being forged, respect among the participants and creativity beyond anything I imagined.

Maggie Bethel at the artist talk along with other wonderful work done that week. photo by Ruth Schowalter

Maxine Hess talking about her work on her right

in front of Helen De Ramus and Kate Colpitts drawings

In front of drawings by Kate Colpitts, left, and Helen De Ramus, right

Be curious! Be Brave! Get out there and mingle! Who knows what could happen!

Next week Week TWO of 21 Weeks to your Most Creative Self: Believe

WOMEN IN ART WEDNESDAYS

“C” IS FOR INGRID CALAME

This is part of an on-going series Women in Art Wednesdays

When I first saw Ingrid Calame’s work, I was blown away. Learning about the process she uses changed the way I forever view the world!

What does she do? Along with assistants, she goes out into the world armed with mylar and spends days tracing the world. What do they trace? Sidewalks, graffiti on a river bed, tire marks on the street, an abandoned pool, the floor of the NYSE, or the Indianapolis raceway (yes, you read that right!) to name a few.

When the seemingly random marks are done, they are combined by overlaying all the drawings. This is what Calame uses for her paintings.

I think it is best in her own words:

Since the early 90s, I have been working with tracing. I go to specific locations to trace marks, stains and cracks on the ground on to architectural Mylar (polyester-based tracing film). From these tracings I make drawings and paintings. I clean the original tracings and layer them on top of each other. Once I’ve piled up the tracings, I place several rectangles of drafting Mylar on top of them. This determines the size of the drawings I will eventually make. I then start to trace the layers of rubbings that are beneath the rectangles, with a different colour pencil for each layer, peeling back the layers one by one until I reach the bottom of the pile. The final drawings are always a surprise.

Tracings from Buffalo

I was recently invited to do a resency at the Albright-Knox art gallery in Buffalo, NY. I traced for three weeks with nine assistants for five days a week. We took tracings from a storage hall at the Arcelor Mittal steel plant, from a wading pool, a parking lot. This working process is important – going out into the world.

My journey through tracing different sites, working with and meeting people and seeing their reactions to the work – all this has changed my understanding of representation and abstraction.

It has been said the Ingrid Calame finds beauty in the grime, starting with markings from places in the world that are in plain sight, but of things very few people stop and look at.

Here is a link to an article about the tracing of the Indianapolis Speedway.

Who wants to go exploring Atlanta with me with a couple of rolls of mylar?

AUGUST READING

Yes – I made a goal to read only ONE BOOK a week. I think what I really meant is I would only read one fiction book a week. I have been reading ALOT of blogs lately and a couple of ebooks. I decided I would include one book on tape I listened to – I’ve never included them. I listen primarily while in my studio – they keep me company, but I rarely pay very close attention to them.

INDIGO: In Search For The Color The Seduced The World by Katherine McKinley: I am in a book club that is comprised of female artists and this was our most recent selection. We had high hopes for this book. This is the story of the author’s trip to West Africa in search of indigo cloth. It is NOT the history of indigo, it is a personal story, which I found a little tedious. It did spark an interest in learning more about the color. I felt it was a little self-indulgent, unevenly written by the author who was in Africa on a Fullbright Grant. The book jumps around, and when it gets interesting, she jumps somewhere else.

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin: I felt this was another self-indulgent book. Her “aha” moments felt to me like – “really? you just figured that out?” Most of the things in this book have been rehashed over and over again. She is a lawyer who gave it up to pursue writing. She neglects to point out her husband is the son of the former Treasury Secretary under Clinton. While the premise is a good one, I felt the writer was a little spoiled and out of touch for the most part.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: Yep, you read that right! Lately I’ve started adopting the minimalist philosophy, which is decluttering and getting rid of what you don’t need. That included my books. Why am I keeping all these books to “read again”? Why, when they are available in the library. So I have made a vow to “reread” the books I keep for that reason. If I haven’t read it by the end of the year – they are out of here! So- that’s why I read this book. I have read this numerous times, but haven’t read it in probably 20 years! I think it was more enjoyable this time around. I relaxed and read it at leisure and really paid attention to it. It still only took an afternoon to read. If you haven’t read it – give yourself a lazy afternoon and sit back and read it! I will probably be reading Through the Looking Glass soon!

Firefly Beach by Meira Pentermann: This was a free download on Amazon. I read it over a weekend. The story was pretty good, a woman moves to Maine after a divorce and takes up painting again. She finds a diary of a girl who disappeared over 20 decades ago. This part of the story is pretty good. However, the main character is aided by a ball of light that she originally assumes is a firefly. I’m all for fantasy and magical realism, but this felt as though it was utilized because she (the author) couldn’t figure out how to move the story along logically. I am shocked to discover there are almost 1000 5-star reviews on Amazon. I thought it was okay, a good weekend read, but nothing more.

The Accidental Creative: How To Be Brilliant In A Moment’s Notice by Todd Henry: This is a book you can read in under an hour. Nothing earth-shattering about creativity, but he does make his points concisely. I’ve been reading alot about creativity lately, so I will refer back to this book from time to time, as it puts alot of concepts together in one place about how to be more creative.

Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich: It would be difficult not to enjoy a Stephanie Plum novel. This is the book I listened to and I really like the voices of the characters, and yes, they are characters! Yes, this series is a little silly, but they are enjoyable. I think if this was the first one you read – you’d have to find some of the back story with Stephanie, Ranger and Morelli.

Louisianna Longshot by Jana DeLeon: another free download for Kindle and it is another silly book. CIA assassin Fortune Redding is sent to Sinful, Louisianna when a price is placed on her head by an international arms/drug dealer. She pretends to be an ex-beauty queen who has come to town to inventory her recently deceased aunt’s belongings. Of course, she finds herself in the middle of a mystery when the dog finds a human bone in the bayou out back. It was an afternoon read, and even though Fortune works with a silver-haired group of women that have secrets of their own, it is full of typos!

So – that’s it for August reading! I am going to read at least one classic in September!!!!

What do you recommend?

21 WEEKS TO YOUR MOST CREATIVE SELF

What is creativity? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is “the ability to make new things or think new things.”

Every human is born creative. However, as we get older society teaches us to suppress creativity (remember, you must color within the lines!). Interestingly, when you ask people who they consider creative, RARELY will they refer to themselves. Most think instead of Mozart, Shakespeare, Gershwin, Ansel Adams, the list goes on and on. Right?

There is also the romantic notion of what a creative person is like. Most people think of them as being sensitive, temperamental, mysterious, often misunderstood.

Okay – I admit, I think of Heathcliff wandering the Scottish Moors.

Or a despondent soul.

But, this isn’t true. First of all, creativity is not based on intelligence. Being creative does not mean you have to make art.

Living creatively means looking at the world around you differently. Your imagination leads to thoughts, thoughts become words and words become action. Creativity is not worth anything if you don’t do anything with your ideas.

Let me repeat that

Creativity is not worth anything if you don’t do anything with your ideas.

A study in 2012 found 8 in 10 people feel that creativity is critical to economic growth, and over 60% of those surveyed feel creativity is valuable to society. BUT, 1 in 4 people believe they are NOT living up to their creative potential.

Do you believe some people are born more creative than others? I believe not. Creative people usually do six key things throughout their life (called The Innovators DNA).

Make connections between different things

question everything

observe

network

experiment

and most importantly, practice

Living a creative life is being fully alive. When was the last time you felt fully alive? Think about this for awhile.

Believe you can change the world!!!

Spend some time this week thinking about what inspires you to create? It doesn’t have to be a work of art, it can be baking a cake, writing a joke, putting your clothes together differently, taking a different path to the grocery store. It can be anything! Find you passion!

Share what you think creativity is.

For the next 21 weeks I will share an action I believe will make that creative muscle grow stronger. Next week, Find your Tribe!

Vickie Martin

Mixed Media Art