Archive for February, 2008

An artist by any other name

Susan Lomuto of Polymer Clay Notes wrote recently about a topic that is, in my family’s parlance, one of my “hot buttons” - that is whether an artist who is not selling work is really an artist. I wrote a rather lengthy response, and yet I have more to say.
I have regularly heard working artists […]

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Connections

Like many other attendees, I’ve been thinking about Synergy a lot this week. One thing that struck me this morning was how important events like Synergy are for making and/or affirming connections. We are so very lucky to be part of such a warm, welcoming and sharing group. There wasn’t very much […]

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Synergy - Impressions

Judy Dunn is right. I don’t need to give you a detailed description of what went on at Synergy. There are many people doing an excellent job of it. Plus they’ve got photos, which I don’t. (left the camera in the bag most of the time) What I can do is […]

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Synergy Day One - Thoughts

I am going to break this up into a bunch of posts to keep them from being too long. So much was packed into the three days and each day was distinctive. Overall, I thought the conference was fabulous, well organized and rich in content. The quality of the presenters, panelists and speakers […]

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Poof!

4 months of blog posts gone.
Perhaps you noticed that the clock here on my blog has gone back in time to October 2007. Last week, my web host migrated my account (and umpteen others) to new server hardware. Our server (prophetically called “Lucky”) had been a bit unreliable. Several days of complete […]

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