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There's No Place Like OM: New Original Art
"No Place Like OM" is a recent acrylic painting that I created to celebrate OM as a representation of all that is - of our interconnectedness with each other.Hindus believe that as creation began, the...
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Solstice: Trust That the Sun Always Rises - New Original Art
This is one of the first mandalas I ever created where I used a ruler and a compass - and minimally at that. I've created thousands of mandalas over the years without the use of such tools because I...
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Resonate: From Concept to Creation Part 1
The Banana Factory resident artist group exhibit takes place each fall. The theme for 2012 was "Contextualize" and we were asked to submit a piece that was in some way inspired by a piece of text in...
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Resonate: From Concept to Creation Part 2
I come back from vacation feeling better than I had in a really long time. I'm open, I'm happy, I'm revived. I have 5 days to complete this painting and for the 1st two days... Nothing. I got nothing....
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Live Painting on First Friday at The Banana Factory
11 times a year, The Banana Factory Arts and Education Center holds a First Friday event in conjunction in with the South Side Business Association. At the BF, it's an opportunity for the community to...
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So Hum: I Am That
On a busy First Friday event in my art studio at The Banana Factory, I was in the middle of selling two pieces of my art to two different people when I noticed two little boys come into my studio, who...
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My Evolution Through Rhythmic Abstraction
My art continues to evolve. It is being informed by the world of art around me both past and present.This piece is a work in progress which was started at the beginning of December 2013. It came into...
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Seeing the Modern Masters in Person at MoMA
Earlier this year was the first time I'd ever visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and what I experienced there was life changing. No images in any book, or online can do justice to any...
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Upcoming events: Featured Artist Exhibition 10/03, Artist Talk 10/08 and...
I wanted to share with you several events and exhibitions that I have going on during the month of October: On First Friday October 3rd I will be a featured artist at The Banana Factory with an...
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Answering Your Questions About My Art
In preparation for a recent artist talk that I offered at The Banana Factory, I asked my Facebook friends what they would most like to know about my art. Their questions and my answers follow below....
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"Orbit" on Display in NYC for the N.A.W.A. 125th Members Exhibition
Visit my art in New York City! From now through October 30th -October 3rd-30th is the 125th Annual N.A.W.A Members Exhibition held at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, 417 Lafayette St. in New York...
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Metamorphosis in Part 1 of the 2014 Banana Factory Resident Artist Annual...
Each year, the resident artists at the Banana Factory Arts and Education Center in Bethlehem, PA have the opportunity to display their work as a group for two months in the large main gallery on the...
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Painting with Watercolor or, How Control is an Illusion
If you ever needed evidence that control is an illusion, try working with watercolor paints. These are a few tonal studies that I was working on the other day.I began drawing mandalas and experimenting...
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PBS 39 WLVT Interview: The Spirit of Art w/ Stephanie Smith
A short while back, I was asked if I would be interested in being interviewed about my art by WLVT, my local PBS station, It would be a segment for their Emmy award winning show, FOCUS which showcases...
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FAQ: How do you decide what you are going to paint?
When someone recently asked me, "How do you decide what you are going to paint?" Â I realized that I hadn't really ever thought much about it. The simple answer, is intuition.When I make the decision to...
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Celebrating 5 Years as an Ex Smoker
Celebrating 5 years today as an ex-smoker.Looking to quit? Tell yourself it will be easy instead of hard because your mind believes what you tell it. I wholeheartedly believe this because for me it was...
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Light
"She is (I AM) Light" is about the acknowledgment and acceptance of our full radiant selves. It is about healing, self-love, and  having faith that we can become whole again. During this process, our...
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Cloud Eagle: A Historical Recording from the Seasonal Singers of the Jemez &...
In October of 2014, I received a request and the subsequent honor of having my original painting "Seek" chosen to be the artwork for the historical recording of "Cloud Eagle" by the Seasonal Singers...
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This Really Happened! I spoke at TEDxLehighRiver
Where do I begin?Circa 2011, I saw Tony Robbins TED Talk and it inspired me to one day have a TED Talk of my own. In 2013 when I went to the Visionary Painting Intensive at CoSM with Alex and Allyson...
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My TEDx Talk is now Online! Art as a Spiritual Practice: What I Learned from...
I'm not exactly sure what was more difficult, stepping onto the stage at Miller Symphony Hall to deliver my talk or waiting a month to see how the video turned out. (The day of the event was a blur.)If...
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River Jazz Exhibition at SteelStacks in South Bethlehem
I really don’t think too much about exhibiting my artwork outside my studio, but this was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. At the time, (2015) I was hard at work on my family tree and had just...
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Re-working Community: Updating Expressive Artwork
I drew my first mandala in January of 2007. Started painting them in acrylic in late 2010. Until I moved into my studio at The Banana Factory in November of 2011, I'd been painting in a 5x5' space in...
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Geometric Mandala Painting: Jewel in the Lotus
"Jewel in the Lotus" started as a First Friday demo painting in December of 2014 and was finished sometime in 2015. It is acrylic on an 18x18" stretched canvas. It was created at a time when I was...
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Creating Ancient History: Recycled Paper Mandala Art
As the story goes, I was first inspired to begin a journaling practice after seeing a 5 year gardening journal for sale on one of the home shopping channels. With the book spanning such a long time...
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