Arts & Craft Show Extravaganza

Colorado Artists’ Residencies

November 27th, 2009, No Comments

Artists in the following fields: Ceramics Digital Media/Photography Furniture Design/Wood/Sculpture Painting & Drawing Printmaking Sculpture …interested in improving their art through living, breathing, and creating their art at an artist in residency program should get more information at http://www.andersonranch.org/residencies/index.php?page=residency-overview Application deadline for the Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Artists’ Residency program is FEBRUARY 1, 2010. Notifications to [...]

Call to Artists -Seattle WA

November 24th, 2009, No Comments

Seattle seeks artist for Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop artwork Selected artist to create new media work for urban trail SEATTLE- Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), seeks an artist or artist team to create a new media artwork for the [...]

Interview with James Dillehay

November 13th, 2009, No Comments

James: I grew up in Houston Texas, sometimes working in my father’s retail clothing business in my early teens. In my twenties, my dad expanded to 4 stores and incorporated. I was expected to take over the business and it seemed like the logical choice. Meanwhile, I had a side interest — studying human potential – as in personal growth through consciousness raising practices.

I had come across a Sufi master from Baghdad who traveled around the world teaching ancient techniques for increasing one’s perceptions and intelligence. In a workshop with this man, who seemed straight out of the Arabian Nights, he told me I should quit my job – that it was holding me back from the work I would be doing later on.

Needless to say, this created quite a lot of stress. On the one hand, my father’s business was a golden opportunity. And on the other hand, I could spend some unknown amount of time walking a path that stretched back into antiquity with no clear promise of anything my Western mind could grasp. But it was the call of adventure into the unknown that finally won out.