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Risky business: Self-supporting visual artists share survival skills

by | Nov 27, 2021 | Arleigh Wood, Art Business, Art Discourse, Art Marketing, Artist Talk, Bruce Mau, Eastside Culture Crawl, First Saturday Open Studios, Gill Benzion, Incomplete Manifesto For Growth, Jeff Wilson, Online Talk, Talking Art

​For the second year in a row, I’ve been leading artists’ talks as part of the Eastside Culture Crawl.One of the three Talking Art panels this year took on the wooly business of trying to live as a self-supporting artist, which in the city of Vancouver can...

You can’t keep a good maker down

by | Feb 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Creative Process, Design, Eastside Culture Crawl, Fabricating, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Maker, Process, Project

My mother might remember this: as a kid, I once declared that I could handle a stint in jail, because I would spend the time dressing up the place by making decorations out of any old bits and pieces. Not a huge leap, as making something out of nothing was already my...