Rockey is a retired art teacher. Thirty-five years. There is a lightness to the 85-year-old’s face and voice when he talks about teaching art to junior-high students. He taught in Colorado Springs. The second in this “Words with Rockey” series starts with asking Rockey about his teaching years. It moves Read more…
Chickens wander in the garden behind Nikos Pulos and Melanie Audet’s art studio … once a horse barn. Once a mother-in-law cottage. Now a creative haven he and she share. Nikos shoos the chickens out of the garden. They move to wandering the yard and driveway between the studio and Read more…
Alain Navaratne leans back on the family couch. Relaxed. His paintings hang on the wall behind him, and throughout the room. Alain’s most recently completed work, a bit larger than those on the walls, rests on a sizeable easel. It reflects light from the large, sliding door that is open Read more…
When I was a young kid I had access to a small, counter-top printing press. I’d place each metal character in order, right to left. I’d use a rubber roller to coat the backward letters in black ink, readying them to be mirrored onto light-blue poster board. Only one word I Read more…
I wake up and I’m excited to write morning pages. I can’t explain why. There’s something positive and meditative about scrawling racing thoughts, happenings, nuisances, poetic, lyrical flourishes on the page. Free association. Illegible writing I couldn’t read afterward, if I wanted to. A couple weeks ago I wasn’t doing Read more…