Last Friday I had the pleasure to visit with Katherine Bradford in her Williamsburg studio. In a world of artwork that often looks the same, funneled through MFA programs that create certain types of outcomes, Katherine is an American original who embodies everything I love about art and artists. Her road has been much like…

Every year between Christmas and New Years Eve, my son Jason and I spend a couple of days in NYC. We pack in two days of seeing as much as we can and this year we hit the Rubin Museum.Besides really enjoying their unique presentation on Asian Art and culture, we were really enamored with…

  Most of the time when people think about digital art, they simply think about photography or perhaps video. But, there is a whole new world of digital art that is being created by some of the brightest people in the world. They are pushing the digital boundaries in ways that completely blow my mind….

  Music and art are linked…bound in my heart & soul.  When David Bowie died, it triggered some reflection for me as a fan, a consumer of art and as an educator. I wrote about David a few weeks ago but this weekend I had a chance to revisit some of these themes through the…

I remember when I was 8 years old, there were no living former US Presidents. When LBJ left office in 73 and died shortly thereafter, we returned to this state and I think it contributed greatly to my pure reverence for the role of President of the United States of America. As a kid, the…

Every Monday I start my work-week with a series of new goals and tasks as if I am playing a new game each week. Lets face it, no matter how much we want to change our lives, creating better outcomes requires creating new strategies to deal with the matters at hand.   Back in 1991,…

I love when this happens. Saturday morning I opened the NY Times and there it was, another article about how important it is for us to raise creative kids.  For someone who has spent the last ten years in creative education this is music to my ears. As we hurl through another political cycle and…

Yesterday Peyton Manning became the oldest starting quarterback to lead his team to the Super Bowl. He will be 40 in March…wouldn’t it be amazing if Peyton Manning wins it! Lets face it, we love to see our matinee stars ride off into the sunset and there could be no greater ending than watching Peyton…

David Bowie was an artist. It is that simple. Like most amazing artists, he was ahead of his time and not always well understood. He pushed the boundaries in all aspects: musically, visually, socially and of course through performance.  When I was growing up, I remember Rebel Rebel and Suffragette City hitting the radio and…

Talk to any songwriter and they can’t always tell you why one of their songs is better than the others. The same thing goes for painting or visual arts. You make a lot of objects and once in awhile you have a breakthrough.  Andrea Williams has been taking our adult art classes since we opened here…