I am and have been mostly a nonfiction writer but the storytelling class has pushed me to write fiction. The teacher, Vincent Orduna, gave us an assignment to create a fantastical world.  I have never done anything like that but decided to stretch and do what I could. The next assignment […]

A farewell song from Bex Lipps, former PWA Community Manager. Do you let life flow over you? Quack, Quack!

Come celebrate our FLAG (Free Little Art Galleries) project that brought our participants’ artwork into public spaces around Seattle, allowing everyone to experience the power of creativity and self-expression. The FLAG micro-galleries were displayed in three outdoor locations and featured abstract paintings from the REST center, self-portraits from Entre Hermanos, and pinhole photography from Plymouth […]

Welcome to part one of our weekly Path with Art Audio Series. This series will explore music, poetry, and other recorded audio from the Path with Art archive. Our entry this week was sung by our Path with Art Singers, recorded at Jack Straw Studios in the Fall of 2022. […]

Tim Bridges drawing from Open Studio 1/24/23.

Many of the art teachers that I have met through the years — in grade school, at college, and beyond — are funnily rigid.

I present a challenge to most of them.

Abusive father and brother…Sister who threw me to the curb…I went to Tent City 4 and hated it there.Then I became an independent operator homeless man.Dealing with people was too much of a headache.Generally, I prefer being alone.Now that I have lymphoma — round two — everyone wants to be […]

Where is Eric? So many come and go. Fast friends lost. Where is Ruanda? I asked that a few years back. Has anyone heard from Ruanda? “Oh, honey, she died.” We were supposed to go to the aquarium together. She had invited me, with a big smile on her face. […]

I wrote a poem about fall. It was inspired by the theme of Falling Leaves and by Mary Oliver’s poem “Song for Autumn” and here it is: Autumn Longing It is time for bed,It is time for rest.Everything strives south, goes down, lets loose.We all have gone to seedPlanting our […]

The leaves are so beautifulin all their differentshades, shapes, and statesof growth, release, or decay.Today I am thinking of the treeThat held that life in its existence,nurtured it from before it was a small budcarried nutrients to it so that it could surviveas it developed and grewnow the tree sends […]