Brooklyn-born, award winning artist Michele Brody serves tea on Saturdays in The Bronx as an Artist-in-Residence at the Andrew Freedman Home, a community-based art center located in a landmark building on the Grand Concourse. Her exhibit, “Reflections in Tea” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an installation of Tea House quilts with over 800 tea […]
Samantha Bennett is a writer, creativity/productivity specialist, actor, and the author of the bestselling, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day (New World Library). She is creator of both www.TheOrganizedArtistCompany.com and www.TheOrganizedEntrepreneurCompany.com, organizations dedicated to helping creative people get unstuck by helping them focus and move forward on […]
Italian author, artist, mystical poet, and teacher Tiziana DellaRovere is the creator of The Canticle of the Black Madonna, an original two-hour opera depicting the effects of war on veterans, their families and the environment. Tiziana’s libretto—the story, the dialogue and poetry that is sung, draws on classical elements such as the Greek Chorus […]
Contemporary realist painter, Paul Baldassini captures the light, color and depth of a peony as if looking through the eyes of a honeybee weaving its way about the delicate petals in search of sweet nectar. Paul’s paintings evoke the intricate nuances of objects in the natural world with incredible detail and vibrancy, bringing forth […]
In The Creativity Cure: How to Build Happiness With Your Own Two Hands, husband-and-wife physicians Carrie and Alton Barron reveal that creative action is integral to fueling long-term happiness and wellbeing. Creativity as cure sounds the complete opposite from what we often read about great artists—and what so many people today experience: bouts of anxiety […]
