by Danny | Dec 15, 2012 | books, contemporary photography, Creative Process, Inspiration
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams Written by one of my favorite authors, this is a book about voice, silence, motherhood, family, loss and creativity. One of the highlights of my year was seeing Terry read from it at...
by Danny | Mar 31, 2011 | art moms, art on exhibit, books, Evocations, gardening
I am so excited this spring to be having another Muir Beach Open Studio and Garden event with my neighbors Wendy Johnson & Peter Rudnick over the weekend of April 9 & 10. I really love opening my studio this way and having a chance to talk with people,...
by Danny | Sep 7, 2010 | art on exhibit, books, Mapping the Body
Last week, I had a nice visit to Modern Book Gallery at their new location at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco. Previously on University Ave in Palo Alto, they are now on the fourth floor of this building known for housing top-notch galleries like Fraenkel, Koch, and...
by Danny | Mar 15, 2010 | books, Inspiration, quotes
“As artists, we must learn to try. We must learn to act affirmatively. We must learn to act as though spring is at hand – because it is. We are the spring that we are waiting for. Wherever creativity is afoot, so is a blossoming. All creative acts are acts of...
by Danny | May 25, 2009 | books, Mapping the Body, Milagros, quote
I just got a delightful surprise in the mail – a preview copy of The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon. I am a big fan of her earlier book, You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (which...
by Danny | May 5, 2009 | art and healing, books, business of art, quote
I am so inspired by Lisa Sonora Beam’s book, The Creative Entrepreneur. It feels so good in your hands and the lush color illustrations make you want to dive right into it. Lisa’s book offers a terrific synthesis of right-brain creative processes and...
