Crisis Management: Advice from our LOCAL ARTISTS
Film Producer/Director Richard Sven Shelgren, Sculptor Lynn Creighton, and Theater Actor/Director Susan Kelejian join the show remotely to talk about the ARTS IN A TIME OF CRISIS.
An Appraiser Speaks to the Frustrated Artist Part 1
Elizabeth Stewart, PhD speaks to artists at La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts about selling art in today’s market. For more information check out Elizabeth’s post “Appraiser Talks About Selling …
Santi Visalli’s Latest Biographer
World famous Photographer Santi Visalli joins his latest biographer, 14 year old Cooper Lender, along with Copper’s 8th grader History teacher at Crane School, Louis Caron. In the spirit of …
WHY Dining Services are Worthless
The most under-appreciated segment of the market for fine antiques is often found in dining rooms; specifically, objects related to the ritual of DINING. FE sends me a BIG question: …
Ringing Up a Buckeye Bell
TP has a larger bronze bell, which, with its handle, measures 3 ft. The bell bears the mark for The Buckeye Bell Foundry, Cincinnati. I suspect this bell, at 12-inch …
NatureTrack
Sue Eisaguirre and KC Thompson talk about the NatureTrack Foundation, which encourages school-aged students to embrace our natural world with respect and wonder, and the NatureTrack Film Festival now postponed …
Market for DINING objects DOWN
This month I experienced the honor of an interview for NerdWallet (really!) with Liz Weston, Associated Press and LA Times columnist. She welcomed my opinions on downsizing, especially for folks …
The Story Behind this Picasso
BP from Montecito sent me a Picasso print he picked up at a local estate sale. He knows the image is a print, but felt so enchanted by it that …
La Cumbre Creative Arts Collective and Gaviota Coast Conservancy’s SCAPE Show
First artists Daniel Landman, Judi Weisbart, and Marlyn Daggett discuss the 12″ Squared Show at the La Cumbre Creative Arts Collective. Then Doug Kern, Executive Director of the Gaviota Coast …
Signed Celebrity Photos Fraught with Pitfalls
MC’s friend BD, a dancer still at 88, owns a collection of celebrity autographs from when she danced the “floor shows” in old Las Vegas (1952-56). BD performed at the …