Growing

April 2, 2021 at 11:48 am

“As a writer, I look to expand my range. Poetry has always been challenging and I was excited to start the Spoken Word class through PWA. The teaching artist, Samuel, had a way to aid your writing that I haven’t experienced before. This was the result.” — Michelle M. In […]

Paulette paints Jimi Hendrix

March 30, 2021 at 11:59 am

“This is a painting I made in a painting-from-a-photograph class with Pamm Hanson. I am a fan of Jimi Hendrix since I was a teenager. I have been trying to draw and paint his likeness for close to 50 years with no success. I learned a lot in this class […]

Little Felt Bunny

March 29, 2021 at 11:26 pm

Path with Art participant Jessica Peterson shared a felted bunny she created with supplies from an art kit. She also wrote a poem inspired by this project. Little Felt Bunny How you make me smile With your long droopy ears And tiny bunny style You sit upon my shelf Keeping […]

How to draw drops of water

March 26, 2021 at 5:28 pm

I discovered this fun tutorial on social media, by someone named Randall Rudd.

Becky and Baby

March 26, 2021 at 3:57 pm

This is Baby. I came to meet him in a very unusual way. His owner’s sister called me for help. It seems the owner, a fifties-ish woman, was fleeing a domestic violence abuser. They had been sharing an inoperable RV on an urban farm. She’d had enough, so she had […]

A poem and a song

March 24, 2021 at 5:52 pm

Simply Believe (short version) by Lynette Douglass Chorus This is the day that the Lord has created Simply believe and be glad for NOW! The spirit of love divine Lives in us all Amid the coronavirus It sheds a bright light! A light that can brighten The darkest of days […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

March 17, 2021 at 2:01 pm

This Google Doodle is by artist Arron Croasdell, based in Dublin, and honors that beloved Irish holiday celebrated worldwide: St. Patrick’s Day. “Being an Irish designer, it’s so nice to represent our national holiday on a global scale.” The artwork features symbols that represent Ireland’s geography, architecture, and history. The […]

Access Art: Seattle Opera’s Don Giovanni

March 15, 2021 at 12:50 pm

For Path with Art’s first Access Art event of 2021, Seattle Opera’s new production of Don Giovanni will be available to stream through from March 12 through 28. Fate catches up with the legendary libertine and brings his joyride to a shocking conclusion in this dark masterpiece, which is filled […]

‘A collective longing’

March 14, 2021 at 2:33 pm

More than 400 people called or wrote in to The Seattle Times to answer what they look forward to doing once the world gets back to a more pre-pandemic normal life, including me. Responses hit the streets today in the Sunday edition. What are you most looking forward to?

Do you have ‘Zoom fatigue’?

March 9, 2021 at 2:06 pm

So what is actually happening to your brain when you get ‘Zoom fatigue’? “You’ve heard the complaints, and you may have even experienced it yourself: the exhaustion that comes from too much videoconferencing. But, if traditional face-to-face meetings also make us yawn, then what is about the digital version that […]