

City Hall beckons
It’s hard to believe that in seven or eight years of research at City Hall, the art deco masterpiece of Buffalo and beyond, I have never...


"Failing Well" with Fun-A-Day.
Failing well as an artist, with practice.


Art Jail, Day Three.
I got so involved in Art Jail, Day Four that I'm just now getting a chance to post about yesterday. I think that's a good sign. :)...


Art Jail, Day Two.
Yesterday was a chance to escape for a day, to a place I'd barely explored. I arrived in the Clinton-Bailey neighborhood- where I HAVE...


Art Jail.
I am a freelance artist, historian and event planner, focusing on emotional connection to place. And I have a problem. Most of my art...


They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To.
For a long time, I've been an advocate of reuse. Reclaimed architectural materials, old furniture- heck, even secondhand clothes! I get...
Paying Attention.
"You are what you notice, maybe." - Dana Spiotta I wake up to Churchill pawing a hole in my perfectly taut window plastic which I'd...


Of Montreal. Or Quebec. Or Somewhere.
Over the last few years, I've gotten to know my Italian relatives and even visited them in my ancestral hometown (pictured above). What...


Creativity is My Neighbor.
"Creativity is my neighbor; I live by it." - Edreys Wajed, Creative Mornings 2016. My friend and fellow artist Edreys had his first solo...


A Community is Made, Not Born.
Buffalo is a vortex of coincidence. A number of random meetings of fellow, or former, Buffalonians all weekend at the Women's March on...