Category: arts
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McQueen for a Day
When I was in New York last week, I was happy to be able to make some time to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Savage Beauty exhibit, which explored the work of Alexander McQueen. The retrospective has been so popular that I was encouraged to arrive at the museum before opening in order to […]
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An Open Letter to My Literary Community
Dear Writers of America, Why aren’t you more actively engaged in supporting federal, state, and local funding for the arts? Many of us, myself included, have found personal benefit in this funding. Several years ago, I was one of 11 artists to receive a $5,000 grant for poetry from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. […]
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The Big Snapple
Some of you know my longstanding feeling about New York City. It wasn’t kind. That’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed visiting there. In fact, I’ve probably enjoyed it too much. My last significant visit for vacation, I was in my mid-twenties. It was me, a financial aid check, and every bar in Manhattan. Not […]
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Recipe
If you want a fun weekend, just put Collin and Reb and Gideon into it. (She sums it up better than me.)
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The Future of Arts Leadership Green Paper
This season, Americans for the Arts is hosting an online salon on arts-related topics surrounding our future. As part of our work of the Emerging Leader Council, I crafted this green paper in collaboration with the ELC’s ideas about where our leaders (and leadership) are heading. You can follow and participate in the discussion here. […]
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Audience & Experiment
This weekend Beau and I went to a theatre production–I’ll try to keep the details of it as vague as possible, unless otherwise relevant, because the point of my post today isn’t about the show’s quality, but my response to it. I was in the theatre less than 30 seconds when I realized what I […]
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