Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection
Measure the Music: “Wig in a Box”
By Jake Padilla “Wig in a Box” from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, measure 31 This months selection is a very special one to me. I just finished performing in this musical 101 times since December. The repetition came with a whole spectrum of purposes, surprises and emotions. […]
July 1, 2013 | Read Article
Sculptor Darcy J. Sears
My sculptures are always about the figure at rest or in motion. After 23 years of sculpting the figure you would think I would be bored. However, the human figure is never boring, never the same. Each body is unique. As an artist I look at people in a totally […]
June 24, 2013 | Read Article
Powered by Chocolate
By Liz Brent Powered by Chocolate was inspired by a true life event! One evening before I went into a dance class, a fellow dancer offered me a huge piece of chocolate cake. I couldn’t say no. However, I started regretting it immediately because I believed I was going to […]
June 10, 2013 | Read Article
Measure the Music: Neos Pervolianos
By Jake Padilla This traditional Greek folk song, Neos Pervolianos, is a curious one. In measure 26 you’ll find the bowed string instrument playing a slightly altered but very familiar riff from an American folk song. Can you recognize it?? As a hint I’ll give you the measure from the […]
June 3, 2013 | Read Article
Thrown
Poem by Madelyn Biven; Painting by Julia Cost Cross lines of a highway makes romance bleed, our feet become moonlight crimson echo of the eros between sand and heat (something fine like crushed sun as if the sun could become gold dust). I became a dove and dove into your […]
May 13, 2013 | Read Article