Judy and I have known each other since the early 1990s when I became a student of Sogyal Rinpoche’s and started meeting her at the Rigpa Shrine Room in Berkeley, California. The shrine room moved to San Francisco, so the Berkeley Shrine Room is no more…except vividly in my memory. However, my friendship with the […]
“I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”
~Emily Carr~
(Canadian author and painter)
Visual Thoughts
Portfolio Gallery
3514 Delmar Blvd
Grand Center, Arts, Entertainment & Education District
St. Louis, Missouri 63103
Through October 31st
Monday through Friday 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM & by appointment
314-533-3323
Portfoliogallery@att.net
Robert Powell, Executive Director of Portfolio Gallery & Educational Center, alerted me today to a current group exhibit at the gallery titled “Visual Thoughts,” featuring many of Missouri’s finest […]
I dove face down into the potato salad and…
You finish the story.
Linda Della Donna has a cool blog named “Little Red Mailbox” filled with print interviews, and now I’ve joined the throng. You can check it out by clicking here.
Clocking in at around 2,800 words–quite long for an interview of this sort–it’s very in-depth–I’d say that Linda’s Little Red Mailbox is in danger of being […]
The phrase, “When words are too deep, try art therapy,” captures the spirit, work and person of Edna J. Patterson-Petty. A fiber artist, art therapist, and teacher, Patterson-Petty’s work truly heals, providing the comfort and warmth expected of the quilts she creates. Her graduate degrees in Studio Art and Art Therapy and the inspiration derived […]
Today and tomorrow on Riehlife, I’m honored to feature one of the fine artists (very fine) I’ve encountered here in St. Louis. Edna J. Patterson-Petty has a show opening this week, so we’ll start there. Tomorrow you’ll get a closer and broader look at a warm woman just filled with wisdom for the village of […]
Here’s the Audio-Link for my Septemeber 2nd sermon at the First Unitarian Church of Alton, Illinois. Click here for a link to listen to “Memento-Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment” (just the sermon) or the full service.
Neither my father nor I were amplified for our violin-playing, but you can hear it if you listen […]
“As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.”
~Julia Cameron~
From Chapter 1, “A Place to Come Home To,” by Marj Casswell (go here to buy the book)
For years every pack of cigarettes I opened took me back to our tobacco barn. As the red plastic encircling the pack tore away and the silver paper lifted, I would stand under two-foot long leaves drying on […]
