AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

I've been trying to upload an image for three days now - can't get anything but a little red x. I've changed the size to weblog size, changed to .gif from .jpg and now I can't even get a preview of it. Argh...

I'm supposed to be upstairs doing "stuff" - - - all I want to do is work on some art. Summers are tough - kids around all the time, breaks concentration. I admire artists who can get work done while their children are home. Those who will peacefully sit with Mom or Dad, creating their own art. Is this a myth? Mine always have questions, want to go somewhere, etc.

Of course, that's family life. I LOVE family life, but sometimes I get in my art "zone" and I want to build walls around me. So I don't even start art because I don't want to wall off my family that way...

Check it oot: http://www.nedpr.org/2008/write-on

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• A conversation with Enrique Kalil about producing his NedPR episode Enrikaydio (Check it out at http://www.nedpr.org/2008/enrikaydio)
• Nedcaster talks about the work of writing and shares his writings at www.mypencilpours.com
• Writings from Nedcaster, Lacy Telles, Jaime Becktel and Molly Benson
• Morning Becomes Epileptic w/Ned Hardcore and music from Ben Floren and Friends (Check out more at www.myspace.com/guestroomsessions)
• Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• Artwork created by Jaime Becktel

LISTEN AND SHARE YOUR OWN WORK!!!

Create on...

Nedcaster

Hi all; I'm new here and looking forward to connecting. I'm pretty isolated, which is good for getting work done, but sometimes it just sucks the life out of me. This should prove a good antidote. I'm on a low right now after a complete manic spring, which was excellent for creativity but awful for sleep. The fam. suffered.

I'm getting us ready for a trip to Seattle/Bellingham/Lummi Island to visit former Peace Corps (dh's) friends. I'll be taking along the sketchbook; maybe there'll be something worth posting. Friends have been traveling around the world this summer and have brought me all sorts of wonderful ephemera, too, for my collages and assemblages. Now I'll have "stuff" from the NW, too.

I ponder bout life and bein somber wit no options
Of exonerating me, from this haunted state of livin in
The discipline of discontent, my vision starts but never ends
Freedom's not a regiment...I follow in life.
So my negligence to speak my voice leaves me deaf wit every noise
I'm reachin for the stars while the stars reach for other boys.
It's not my time, It's not my time,

Part 2 coming up...

Beata Szechy
Costume Textile Project
exhibition at
Ferencvarosi Gallery
IX. Mester u. 5. Budapest, Hungary
Opening remarks by Wehner Tibor

THREADS: Beata Szechy's Exhibition, Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest

The videos, installation pieces and traditional technique prints compose this exhibition. The installation is a continuation of Beata Szechy's earlier works and subject matter. Szechy started her artistic career almost thirty years ago. The early period of her works included concepts of legacy, symbolism and avant-garde combinations of visual elements. Traditions and subject matter, the unusual, and realism float together while simultaneously breaking apart from each other. In this way, Szechy has created a special style and meaning in her work.

AIR, International Artists Residencies - Exhibit, Hungary
(works in a variety of media)

Vizivarosi Gallery, 1027 Budapest II. Kapas utca 55

June 26- July 19, 2008
Opening remarks: Dr. Katalin Geller - art historian
and
Mark Tauber, Cultural Attashe - US Embassy, Budapest
Curator: Beata Szechy - HMC

NEW: Call for artists - A.I.R. International Artists Residencies- BUDAPEST, Hungary

We are proud to announce that our residency/seminar program due to it's success has been expanded.

The Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC) is currently accepting applications for the Budapest -International Artist/Writer Residencies. The HMC invites interested visual artists, musicians, film makers and writers to submit application for its residencies program.

1. Deadline (must be received) August 1, 2008
for September - October AIR
2. Deadline (must be received) September 15, 2008
for November AIR
3. Deadline (must be received) October 15, 2008
for December - January AIR

Residencies Dates
1. Wednesday, September 24 - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Seminarium on September 26th

Wow it has been a busy busy schedule for me as of late.
So here is a little post to update you on my Belly Dance happs...just check the flyers for details.
Happy shimmies, Shahravar

Hi All,

I am in the process of creating a support network for highly creative creatures who often endure the ups & downs of having such high levels of creative juice. The basic idea is that those riding the highs can support those wallowing in the lows. I am also setting up a physical presence in Amsterdam Holland, interested? check out the web site or drop me an email!

this is a none biz venture.

regard
Martyn

MAHISHASURAMARDINI – nritya natika

Inaugral day of the 31st Natya Mahotsav of Natya Shastra Vibhaag, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathawada University, Aurangabad on 2nd June 2008 at Tapadiya Natya Mandir, Aurangabad
The story and idea depicted is as follows in the poem given below.

“Mahishasuramardini is an age old drama depicting the victory of the good over the evil.
The evil is no less powerful, in fact it is powerful than the Mightier, the gods.
He is intelligent, brave and strong.
All the gods come together and create a power “Shakti” which has the combination of all powers from all the gods together. This is manifested in the form Durga.

In the myth, with her charm and valour, she lures Mahisha and finally overpowers him.