Experience the Healing Power of Divine Portals

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A quick look into my life and how Divine Images are brought forth Like many other lightworkers and healers who are working hard for the rise of benevolence in our time, I have also agreed to take on the role of helping all those who want to rise into a higher state of awareness. Hence, my work is intended to uplift all those who come in contact with it. As one person, I can only play my part in this great awakening. What you are about to read is my contribution. So many lightworkers depend … [Read more...]

Artist intuitives enlighten the Walker

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Watch your intuitive powers magically grow! Marvel as you instantly connect with human beings! Uncover the deepest mysteries of art! Krystal Krunch (aka Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, two Los Angeles-based artist intuitives) introduce you to You in a fun workshop-plus-gallery tour revealing the hidden energies of the body, art, and architecture. Krystal Krunch will appear at the Walker Art Center on Thursday, Jan. 5 (during the museum's Target Free Thursday Night) for a workshop in the … [Read more...]

I Am Worthy: Art Inspires Abuse Awareness

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I Am Worthy, a show of original artwork by Gretchen Dreisbach inspiring awareness of abuse in all forms, will run from Thursday, July 14, to Sunday, July 24, in Suite B of the Calhoun Building, 711 W. Lake St., Minneapolis. An opening reception will take place from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 14. The gallery is open to the public July 15-17 and July 22-24, from noon to 5 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free. The shows feature an extensive body of work, including approximately 20 large … [Read more...]

The Dream That Changed The Art World

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On September 22, 2003, artist Julia Watkins awoke as a different person. The world she now saw seemed so unusual. It looked different, smelled different and felt different. Moreover, as she looked out her bedroom window it seemed to pulse with a life and energy she had only vaguely sensed when she created her impressionist landscape paintings. Thinking back to her past night's dream, she remembered floating without a body over a landscape made of outrageously beautiful, translucent energy … [Read more...]

Luminous Light: The Paintings of Nancy Stephani

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As I gaze at the paintings of Nancy Stephani, I am transported to aboriginal dreamsongs, petroglyphs of extraterrestrials, and the primitive emergence of life under a microscope. There is a shifting of all these sensations at once, as the paint strokes vibrate on the large canvases like living matter that Nancy describes as, "...energy patterns of emotion...something fluid and malleable - a tangible artifact of a fleeting moment." There is a pulsing movement in the brushstrokes that ask the … [Read more...]

Compelling Minnesota artists to discuss their collaboration

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Two of Minnesota's most compelling artists -- Wing Young Huie and Monica Haller -- will hold a public conversation about the role of collaboration in their work at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 28, at the Target Performance Hall at Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis. Photographer Wing Young Huie has long combined interviews and photography in his artistic process. Installations of his photographs in unusual urban settings have involved quite literally hundreds of people in the … [Read more...]

Art for health

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The Midwest Arts in Healthcare Network (MAIHN) is hosting a month-long "Arts and Health Community Celebration" in April, and events will take place throughout the month in the Twin Cities that combine arts and healing towards the goal of lifting the human spirit and inspiring optimal health. More than 50 exhibits, workshops, concerts and experiences are scheduled throughout the Cities. Visit www.maihn.org/Events. In addition, the international conference of the Society for the Arts in … [Read more...]

What is Art, Master?

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I remember that you said something to me about my "progress in art" and I said there is no progress. "I don't have that narrative. There is no structure called 'progress.'" There is no "good, better, best" as I used to tell my creative writing students. Each time I make a mask I start fresh. It's all new to me or it's stale and if it's stale I quit for the day and go home. There have to be surprises in what I'm doing in whatever medium I'm working in. It isn't only clay. It's also behind my … [Read more...]

Watch and Be Cured

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As a visitor at the Tel Aviv art festival, I was standing in one of the pavilions among dozens of people, staring with wonder at their responses to the exhibit. Their integration with the marvelous paintings was almost instantaneous – something positive had flown forth from the artwork and improved their feelings. An atmosphere of joy, revival and encouragement was clearly visible in the audience which had already absorbed a lot that evening. It was obvious that these paintings of Orna … [Read more...]

Author readings in the Twin Cities

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Sunday, March 8 - 5 p.m. - Three bright talents on the national small press scene -  C.A. Conrad, Aaron Kunin, and Magdalena Zurawski - will read at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis [612.822.4611 - www.magersandquinn.com], co-sponsored by Rain Taxi Review of Books Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic and novelist. He is the author of a collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence, 2005); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase, 2006); and a … [Read more...]

Loving the Journey

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I love to paint, to feel the creamy goo under my brush. I spread it out like butter across canvas. I turn the music up loud and almost dance with my brush. I paint about simple things that make me happy, or simple things I find beautiful. Georgia O'Keefe is my hero for that reason - for taking the simple beauty of a flower and using paint to make it obvious to even the busiest and most distracted person, for using paint to help everyone see the beautiful colors of dirt. I love how paint allows … [Read more...]

The Power of Spiritual Integrity

In beauty is truth. In this simple statement is found all the power that you will ever need in life. Find what is beautiful for you and you will find your own truth. Find your own truth, and you will find your power.When I speak of finding your power in life, I am not talking of power over anyone else. I am talking about the power of the integrity of your own spirit, a power which is awakened by beauty. Then you can accomplish anything that you set your mind and your heart to accomplish.Many … [Read more...]

An interview with Michael Ventura

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“An Artist Without Obsession Isn’t Worth a Damn!” According to author John Updike: "The ditch digger, the dentist, and the artist go about their work in much the same way Any activity becomes creativity when the doer cares about doing it right or better. The artistic impulse is a mix, in varying proportions, of childhood fantasizing brought on by not necessarily unhappy periods of solitude; a certain hard wish to perpetuate and propagate the self; a craftsmanly affection for the materials … [Read more...]