Friday, March 02, 2012

ART SPARKS FLY

This will be short, but then the best things in life are often short! (and free)
Thursday, yesterday, Susan Josephson,--an instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design for twenty years--lectured at First Unitarian Universalist Church at 7 pm. --She had a full house in the Community Room, and she was marvelous. There will be seven more 7 pm Thursday talks by Josephson.--What a bright spot on a sometimes bland cultural horizon. Josephson talked about evolutions in art and art history.
There wasn't a question or comment she couldn't respond to.--And the questions were sometimes a little off-topic! One of her explications was of the concept of how religous images were thought to heal. I reminded everyone of how Our Lady of Consolation, a statue and shrine less than a hunded miles away in Carey, Ohio, is
yet visited by thousands and . . . some come running, and are healed.
I have hopes for the ArtScene, and I'm working on being able to write on it out of my home.--As my friend Jack Kerouac. would have said,the beat goes on.
Oh, yes, I have a marvelous and instructive time making paper-and-paint-art at The Whetstone Recreation Center. JoAnn Holtrey a veteran instructor for the City
of Columbus, is just great at teaching and making art.--She can do anything! (And she has the patience, well, of one of Picasso's wives, which is saying a lot.