“If I can think it, I can draw it and I love coming to the Path with Art [Open Studio] Zoom meetings. It’s so nice to be able to be supportive of not only myself but of other people’s art and their different art making textures.” —Tim Bridge, Path with […]

INSPIRATION FROM WILDLIFE What I miss from being homeless is sleeping outside among the trees and the wildlife, and having the warmth of the sun greet you in the morning as you wake up. There is nothing like it. I witnessed a lot of great things, from a snow owl […]

A childhood story from Lynette Jenjen Douglass THE MUFFIN LADY The years between four and seven were some of my favorite years of growing up! We lived in a neighborhood of middle-aged and elderly people. I had another pair of grandparents, Grandma and Grandpa Hoppie, and there was another aunt, […]

I converted a section of the poem into a Photoshop brush and created amandala. I then layered the mandala with a pattern and clipped out a section. A conversation with my psychiatrist inspired me to write the poem. He asked me why my feelings of hopelessness led to thoughts of […]

Misophonia by Pam Winter Sound Sufferer, Sanity Sucker, Serenity Slapper, Soundless Sobbing. Small sounds – Huge problemsBreathing, chewing, chomping, slurping, bowl bangingpen clicking, keyboard tapping, whistling, walking… Eyes engorged with sound,synapses tied in a jumble of knotsimplode with another breath. Trapped in a crater of insanitynoise echoes, brain howls.emotions eruptfragments […]

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 […]

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

The following poem captures a moment in my life when I felt a great deal of confusion. This confusion spilled over into my artwork. I created collages and doodles that lacked focus. I had trouble finishing my projects. Unfinished Objectsby Tara Royal blue scraps of felt, periwinkle blue Strips of […]

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 […]

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.