I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world. – Amy Sherald
What She Said, September 5: Amy Sherald
Alice Fairfax
From her career as an improvisational Disney entertainer, Alice developed best practices for your organization to find and tell your best stories. Her keynotes and online workshops are fun, interactive, and give your team the tools they need to tell your brand stories. A publicist for touring Broadway shows, an actor and a published author, she hosts the StoryMaven Podcast. Find her at alicefairfax.com
What She Said, September 4: Faith Ringgold
You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it. – Faith Ringgold
What She Said, September 3: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
You don’t exist if you’re not represented… I felt a need to claim my own social existence by making the representation happen. – Njideka Akunyili Crosby
What She Said, September 2: Patti Smith
Nobody says “Picasso, the male artist.” – Patti Smith
What She Said, September 1: Beatrix Potter
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. -Beatrix Potter
What She Said, August 31: Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. – Martha Graham
500 Lifetimes and Trying to Find My Own
I was looking for comfort of some kind when I read a friend and fellow writer’s post. He wrote that this is something that I am “500 lifetimes away from understanding.” He was saying it to the world, to white people, but I took it personally. I hope that was his intention because it is changing me. Maybe trying to understand isn’t the best goal. Maybe taking it personally is a better one.
Creativity During Crisis or Five Reasons I Need Tim Gunn More Than Ever
I’m having a creative crisis along with the stress of the global pandemic outside my door and the uncertainty of life when we emerge. I’m trying to take the ‘extra’ time I […]
How to Leave A Legacy Without Knowing It
In 1981 my dad pulled our sky blue K car wagon into the Corrine gate at the naval base in Orlando, Florida. This would be our home. He served his final post […]
A Very Incarnational Christmas
When Henry was ten, he was invited to do a reading in the children’s choir Christmas concert. The reading from the book of Luke also happens to be what Linus says during […]
