These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
It's Canada Day, it it just so happens to fall on an #ArtsTalkTuesday this year. How fitting, then, that the Art Gallery of Alberta is free to visit today, and it is chock-full of Canadian art. The question today is simple. Who is your favourite Canadian artist?
If you can, please link to her/his work.
And you are not allowed to say yourself. Oh what the heck, go ahead if you like.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
What summer arts event are you most looking forward to and why? It's ArtsTalk tuesday, so share below, and/or on social media, with the hashtag #artsTalkTuesday.
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Libraries are awesome. Borrowing is the bomb. But when you break out the wallet and actually pay cold, hard cash (or colder, harder debit) for a book, it says something. It means something. Usually, it means the book is pretty important to you.
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It's that time again - #ArtsTalkTuesday – the time we gather round the campfire and share what has been speaking to us from the world of the arts. This week we continue to focus on a single question. What do you find beautiful?
With two good friends I've been reflecting on beauty. What is it? Is it anything? It is subjective? How can it be defined?
We've wrestled with these questions, but through the wrestling, it's inarguable that we are each moved by beauty. Whatever it is, whether or not we can define its edges, it moves us. It calls out for our response.
So rather than define beauty, we decided to share what we feel is beautiful. Perhaps, this way, we can look for common threads. We can 'reverse engineer' this amorphous quality we call beauty. Or, just as valuable, we can forget the definitions and discover new ways to experience beauty.
Show us where to look. Be specific. List music, movies, books, dances, paintings, sculpture, installation – anything that leaps to mind at the mention of beauty.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
What one artist can you recommend we check out today? Give the name, a brief description of their work (perhaps why you like it?) and a link to check out some of their work.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
This week, rave about the artists you love in Edmonton. I look forward to making new discoveries with you.
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It's Tuesday - and that means it's time to talk art in community. This week the direction is simple - books. you've read. this year.
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You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
I'm curious to have you answer 2 questions today - 1) What is YOUR artist website (do you have one? What's the URL?) and 2) What are the best artist websites you've seen (again, please share the URL).
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
The art we engage makes in impact. Over time, we are formed. What are we engaging, and who are we becoming? Take a moment. Reflect. Take stock. Ask yourself, What art have I engaged this week? How has it formed me?
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
