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A way to spark some fun...and play and stretch...and maybe even a little growth
some girl friends are gathering to paint and play in the new year
we call it the Chamber of Art...where ideas fly and creativity spills
wishing you all a happy healthy and creative new year
She's tall, this Methuselah Goddess....6ft in her stocking feet...
only the first of many layers that will make up this Goddess, full of myth and lore...
a JOYous priestess
this Methuselah Goddess
she will share her tale
More Haiku my Heart and JOY to be found
Our artwork is for all seasons...Linda says it's OK, plus over the past couple of weeks I could look out and imagine Mr R and I dancing
he was on a fabulous trip to hear Cuban/Latin Jazz music and get dancing tips from the pros
I hope he took notes.
He took lots of great pics as music and art are highly celebrated here...I shall share more in the coming weeks. Can you guess where he traveled to?
in abundance...and light
a beautiful tradition...brings warmth in the night
and my sweet Tess...ushering in another year.
Sending you all warm holiday greetings!
I embrace the traditions of this holiday season...one of those for me has long been making clove oranges...the scent filling the house.
I was happy to see that Tess has a bowl of clove oranges in her home as well...
This year we light the Hanukkah candles as we welcome the winter solstice...and bend gently toward the light.
My postcards from paradise...a day in Denver with Tess. Exploring art museums, old and new. This post turned into a crazy long travelogue...you can just look at the pictures if you'd like :)
The MCA has some interesting exhibits...
Thinking About Flying is a project by artist Jon Rubin...
Museum visitors are invited to participate by taking home a pigeon in a carrying case and releasing the pigeon to fly back to its loft on the museum’s roof. As this training process progresses the pigeons will travel distances increasing from a few blocks to over 400 miles.
At once poetic and practical, the temporary placement of the pigeons in visitors’ homes expands not only the artwork, but also the space of the museum itself.
Several exhibits feature the counter culture movements in the 60's and 70's...we sat inside a geodesic dome as images of Drop City, a communal artist colony in southern Colorado moved before us. Photographs of San Francisco’s extravagant theatre groups the Cockettes and the Angels of Light as well as works of modern dancer Anna Halprin are among the works at the MCA.
The Clyfford Still museum...the newest addition to the Denver art scene, is a beautiful museum that houses thousands of Still's works.
I found many of his later...huge canvases to be reminiscent of African and Indian textiles.
We topped the day off with dinner on Larimer square...
and from the City and County building...Peace on Earth...and a Happy New Year.
Creative culture maven Richard Florida's list of The Most Artistic Cities in America, appearing in the online publication Atlantic Cities, uses an index called the location quotient to measure artist concentrations. The higher the number, the greater the density of artists in a community's population. For example, a score of 2 means the city has twice as many artists as the national average.
1. Santa Fe, N.M., 7.587
2. San Francisco, 3.825
3. New York City, 2.573
4. Los Angeles, 2.503
5. Santa Cruz, Calif., 2.496
6. Danbury, Conn., 2.46
7. New Bedford, Mass., 2.393
8. Boulder-Longmont, 2.278
9. Barnstable-Yarmouth, Mass., 2.276
10. Jersey City, N.J., 2.256
We knew this...
and so must the Pasadena Art Museum, the origin of the Street Cred show at the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center...
local artist Gamma Acosta, Denver and LA artists show us their work...off the street/building walls...
onto the gallery walls.
yep
Evening and one by one the lights go on...
a magical dance of little lights...bouncing off brass bells...
and across every reflective surface.
and...firefly...a chance to view and buy beautiful and creative handmade gifts.
another bright light...I sat in awe as the December full moon rose in the sky...
From the farmers almanac...One name for this moon, the Long Night Moon, is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.
Mr R...you are seeing this same Long Night Moon...over there.
