Transforming scars into art

May 27, 2021 at 2:10 am

I came across this news story from the BBC. It documents how everyday people are turning something sad and negative into the precise opposite. There is a trigger warning at the beginning of the video.

A song from 1976

May 26, 2021 at 9:54 am

I am a big fan of Elton John, if you haven’t noticed. Music helps get me and keep me moving.

Lost Friends

May 25, 2021 at 3:53 pm

Being a part of Path with Art for so long People coming and going Some staying, like me Friends Many, many friends But what about those friends who drift away? Remember Eric? Where is Eric? Blind A nice guy Young A gentleman Where is Owen? A professional dumpster diver I […]

I love our teaching artists!

May 25, 2021 at 3:47 pm

FROM THE ARCHIVES While looking through the Path with Art YouTube channel, I discovered this throwback.

Some music for peeps

May 25, 2021 at 1:53 pm

Music + WritingI love this Simon and Garfunkel song. Music is often inspiring to me. The score to Alfred Hitchcock‘s film North by Northwest helped me write what was supposed to be a short story for a college writing class. It ended up on the path to being a novel. […]

Where Claude Monet found inspiration

May 19, 2021 at 12:32 am

In honor of Chris Cornell

May 18, 2021 at 10:28 pm

Sadly, Chris Cornell died four years ago. There is a bronze statue of him next to MoPOP, the Museum of Pop Culture, which I walk by frequently, usually on the way to a grocery store. I honestly knew nothing about him until I heard about the statue and how his […]

Mt. St. Helens’ Day

May 18, 2021 at 1:23 pm

MAY 18ᵗʰ in 1980 Known as Lawetlat’la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat, the mountain erupted in spectacular fashion on this day forty-one years ago. Any memories you want to share? Hit us up at blog@pathwithart.org or click the SUBMISSIONS link above.

Forgotten women artists

May 18, 2021 at 12:37 pm

The wonderful and hard-working Ghaddra sent me this. It is about forgotten women artists, a series by the Journal of Art in Society. In this case, the focus is on a woman named Marie-Gabrielle Capet. Marie-Gabrielle Capet, who painted the self-portrait to the left in 1783 or 1784, was a […]

What would life be without music?

May 18, 2021 at 7:09 am

Music is a big part of my well-being.