We all know and love the stories, for they are buried deep within our DNA. They are about the beauty, wonder and inspiration that is everywhere in the world around us. They tell how we have overcome fear and learned how to navigate in this life. Whether your approach is as a scientist or a [...]
I just returned from spending almost a month in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands maintaining an illustrative journal of what I saw. You can read about my adventures and see preview drawings on my website. I’m very excited with this new direction in ecological art and I hope to use my art collection and my [...]
So how cool is that. A bunch of young artists in a poor neighborhood do an environmental art project – they send a letter and a picture of their artwork to the President of the United States (read my earlier blogs) – and the leader of the Free World writes them back! OK, so maybe [...]
I’m so excited to be facilitating this art & wellness program: 6 fun-filled workshops using PLAY to explore creativity, reduce stress and improve mental health. CLICK HERE to view full details and registration Ideal for all art levels because drawing skills are not needed to have great outcomes. DATE/TIME: Every Saturday, 10am -12:30pm, Oct. 9 [...]
Great article in today’s St. Petersburg Times by columnist Ernest Hooper. Click Here to read it. Ernest really captures the spirit of the wonderful young people I’ve been working with at Community Stepping Stones. Thank God we have uncommonly talented writers like Ernest to tell our story. By the way, Here’s the letter the kids [...]
Community Stepping Stones Kids Tell President Obama How They Feel About Gulf Disaster in Letters & Art Monday, July 12, 2010, Tampa Florida – The youth of Community Stepping Stones in Sulphur Springs have created an 8 foot x 8 foot piece of poignant public art illustrating their concerns about the Gulf Oil Spill. At [...]
Out of the mouths of babes. Kid’s are really depressed about the oil spill. Kathy Steele, in today’s Tampa Tribune/Carrollwood TBO.com, shared her observations. Click on the attached PDFs and read how creatively the kids from Community Stepping Stones (Sulphur Springs) are expressing themselves. Art Depicts Oil Spill A Art Depicts Oil Spill B
THEY SAY NO ONE LEARNS LIKE THE TEACHER. How True! I’ve been guiding a group of young people at Community Stepping Stones in Sulphur Springs, Tampa. They vary in age from ten years old to eighteen. Community Stepping Stones is a superb after-school program in a neighborhood that normally isn’t able to afford this kind [...]
The last few weeks I’ve been volunteering as a guest artist at COMMUNITY STEPPING STONES, an organization that provides arts-oriented after-school programs to encourage kids to stick with their education. The neighborhoods they serve have lots of challenges, but the kids are the best. They say no one learns like the teacher – and I’ve [...]
As any orthopedist will tell you, our feet were not designed to walk on artificial stuff like asphalt and concrete. They like the real thing. When we get away from the concrete, we find living things under our feet – some as big as beetles and earthworms, other incredibly small, like microbacteria – a mass [...]