Determine the Value of Your Art
JR sent me a photo of a cabinet filled with objects. How does she determine the value of that art? She asked, “since I have time at home, how do …
CoVid Crisis Management: Advice from our LOCAL ARTISTS Part 4
Photographers Jeffrey Lipshitz and Joyce Wilson talk about how CoVid impacts their days.
American Revolutionary Provenance: A Medical Kit
RMC asked a great question. How does someone establish provenance? It seems RMC owns a valuable mahogany Revolutionary Medical Kit containing forceps, probes, a hooked metal key, a group of …
Simplex Time Clock Tells Story of Its Time
Nothing feels quite as weighty as time these days. I purloined my kitchen clock from a garage going out of business. It bears that 1970’s Bendix logo with the Bendix …
CoVid Crisis Management: Advice from our LOCAL ARTISTS Part 3
Central Coast creatives Laura Denny, Margaret Matson, and Brad Nack talk about how CoVid impacts their days.
Thirteen Poems for Luck
I reflect on the acronym CoVid: “co” in Latin means “partnership” (as in co-habitate, or co-invent)…. “vid” in Latin (derived from videre) means “to see.” Words are powerful! We now …
Hand Fan Used in the Language of Seduction
Gone are the days when a beautiful woman kissed the air and waved that kiss to a handsome man. Timely, then, that FG sent me a lovely, 200 years old, …
Crisis Management: Advice from our LOCAL ARTISTS Part 2
Career artists in Santa Barbara, Sol Hill and Nathan Huff, talk about how a creative maker gets through tough Coronavirus times.
An Appraiser Speaks to the Frustrated Artist Part 2
Elizabeth Stewart, PhD speaks to artists at La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts about selling art in today’s market. In this second part she responds to questions from the artists …
Celebrated Impossible Drinking Challenge
JH sent me something rather extraordinary, if she likes a drinking challenge. In Northern Europe, especially in the 19th century, mature men took this little lady figure, inverted her, and …