by Amanda on May 28, 2009

I interviewed guerilla artist Keri Smith for my column on the POV blog. Smith is the author of several bestselling books about creativity, including How to be an Explorer of the World — The Portable Life/Art Museum and Wreck This Journal. We talked (over email) about whether she blogs for the same reasons she creates art, finding …
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by Amanda on April 17, 2009

I’m in Chicago with JINX for the Chicago Improv Festival (we perform tonight at 10pm), and just had lunch with a friend, Marsha, who’s part of the New Leaf Theatre here. She’s curating a show of theirs that opens tonight, and mentioned that the question that’s …
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by Amanda on March 10, 2009

“I think art is wonderful because it’s everything you’ve ever known and everything you’ve ever done, somehow percolating up, working with ideas that you might want to explore. And then you can just wake up one morning and know …
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by Amanda on February 16, 2009
by Amanda on February 2, 2009