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To write Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art, Ricë Freeman-Zachery worked all last year getting a ton of information and tips out of twelve artists (including me). She also got great photos of artwork, drawings, quilts, sculptures, collages, sketchbooks, and studio space from everyone.
For my contribution to the book, I think I wrote about 20 pages of answers to her many questions and submitted upteen photos of drawings, quilts, sketchbooks and my studio. The finished book is densely layered with the photos, tips, challenges, and personal stories from all of the artists and organized into ten chapters with intriguing titles such as:
- Exploring Time – What exactly does “Time” mean to you?
- Stuck in Time – When you need a tow truck to get out of a rut
- Mental Space – What goes on up there in your head?
- Soul Space – Where you receive permission to play
- Creative Habits – Music, candles and companionable cats
This fall Ricë is doing a series of podcasts with the twelve artists she wrote about in the book. In yesterday’s podcast with me, Rice asked more challenging questions. Then towards the end of the podcast, in her usual articulate fashion, she was able to sum up my rambling answers into a concise and helpful set of tips (read her post about the interview on her blog Voodoo Cafe: Notes on Art, Writing, & the Creative Life.) Here are some topics we discussed, but to tell you the truth, the 45 minutes flew by!
- Finding the best places to do creative work
- Using the whole brain
- Developing resource bank of ideas to avoid the “blank page” syndrome once you get back to studio
The other artists who contributed to the book:
Tracy Bautista, Theo Ellsworth, Lisa Lichtenfels, Chris Malone, Thomas Mann, Teesha Moore, Judy Coates Perez, Kelly Rae Roberts, Lori Marsh Sandstedt, Carter Seibels, Susan Sorrell, Roz Stendahl, and Judy Wise.
Did I say that? (less is more)
When I first got into some art shows and was asked for an artist statement, I often spent a lot of time at the...
She’s in the Wall Street Journal
Who? That woman I told you about, the one with a big nose and Eiffel-Tower hair. I first got wind of the article in this weekend's...
The Banana Pose is in American Style!
Hey, there's my quilt on page 58 of the January-February issue of American Style magazine. Yay, AmStyle did a big big section on "studio quilts"...
A visit from Spike and Warren on their book interview tour
Over the weekend author Spike Gillespie and her boyfriend "Warren" the photographer visited our studio to do an interview and photos for Spike's new book...
Studio Article in Cloth Paper Scissors
I can't believe April is already half over, and I haven't yet told you about this article. Last December Patricia Bolton asked me to...
