Thanks for your patience with the blog silence. Kyle and I are in Texas for a few days on our way to Mexico. We are celebrating belated holidays and early birthdays with my family before the annual trip to Guanajuato. This time next week I plan on regaling you with so many stories and photos that you will long for the days of quiet.
Adios amigos, hasta próxima semana.
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mile Marker 166, 35x51
This piece is available now at the Perlow-Stevens Gallery in Columbia, MO. Please contact the gallery if you are interested in adding this piece to your collection.
Beth Bojarski & Mark Winter
Before the year is up I want to introduce you to just one more friend. I purposely didn’t do it before now because he was busy doing really important work and I was afraid you would bother him. Plus, I didn’t want to make you feel bad about what you weren’t doing with your holiday! Continue reading
Paul Tyler - Grants Director ArtsKC
In Kansas City? I can’t recommend ArtsKC, The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City highly enough. And that’s not because they are one of the partner organizations that make possible the Artist Inc program that I am so passionate about, or that Kyle and I have both been recipients of the Inspiration Grants they award. Continue reading
Andy Garrison
Heya – Kyle breaking in again. I want to introduce you to someone you really should know, and not just because he’s so tall and charming and handsome (that’s what you wanted me to say, right Andy?). Andy Garrison is someone I’ve been lucky enough to share a stage with, and luckier still to call a friend. He’s a multi-talented dude with not only a tremendous gift for acting, but with a love and ability for teaching it as well. It’s this teaching side that got me thinking about what to give someone that doesn’t want any more stuff, but would appreciate an experience that has the potential for challenge and growth. It’s a perfect gift for anyone who likes discovering new things about themselves.
Anywho, you’ve been following this series, you’ve been inspired by all these creative types, and you want to try on that hat too. So what is this magical place to do this, you ask?
Jennifer Owen and Brad Cox
What do your holiday traditions look like?
I was recently talking to a group of friends about holiday traditions and I shared that I didn’t think Kyle and I had very many. It seems we are always in a different city on Christmas day, we don’t have children who eagerly run to see what is under the tree, baking in our tiny vintage oven is difficult at best, we don’t exchange presents with one another, and he is often providing entertainment while others are celebrating. But during our conversation I realized that we do have holiday traditions, they are just not traditional.
Our traditions don’t look like a Norman Rockwell painting, but then again neither does the rest of our life. Our traditions are perfect for us! And here’s a good one –
Folly Theater, Kansas City, MO
One of our perfect traditions is presented by our friends Jennifer Owen and Brad Cox (Fun fact: Brad played piano at our wedding reception in 1993).The Owen/Cox Dance Group brings together a “who’s who” of Kansas City artists and musicians to breathe new life into an old classic. This isn’t your grandmother’s Nutcracker, instead it’s an adventurous exploration of the classic, complete with modern dance and free jazz. Fifteen musicians of the People’s Liberation Big Band, horn sculptor Mark Southerland, artist Peregrine Honig, and students from the Paseo Academy of the Performing Arts join to present a familiar story that turns out to be not so familiar after all.
Are your holiday traditions in line with your life and ideology? If not what can you do differently this year to create a new tradition? How can you include you local creative community in your holiday?
