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Call me wolfman

By dave dorsey, 898 contributed posts
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About the author: A good friend of Ashland artist Sarah F. Burns, David Dorsey is an author and freelance writer who has been painting longer than he’s been writing. He decided, in 2006, to focus primarily on visual art and begin exploring the nature of painting, by both doing it and writing about it. He’s the author of The Force (Random House) and The Cost of Living (Viking), and numerous articles for national magazines. His award-winning paintings have been exhibited at museums, galleries and universities in the United States and Europe. We've syndicated David's excellent blog at Sarah's request so we can all enjoy his well written insights on the world of art.

  This is an interesting Boston Review article that not only buries the lede, but obscures its thesis a bit by talking in circles around it. The core of it is the notion that dogs can teach us to eliminate the boundary between physical and mental through a different order of attentiveness and “obedience” to what’s […]

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January 28th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Contributed Posts, Musings, represent, by Dave Dorsey | Comments are closed

Cool Art Therapy Intervention #2: Active Imagination

By Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, 33 contributed posts
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Call it active imagination, free association, image dialogue, or even a rant. It’s about helping the image to speak your truths, whether through words, visualization, or another art form-and it’s one of the major centerpieces in the practice of art the…

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September 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Art Benefiting Community, Art for Healing, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Music, Musings, to Artists, to Residents | Comments are closed

Cool Art Therapy Intervention #6: Mandala Drawing

By Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, 33 contributed posts
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A circular form in art is often referred to as a “mandala” and is also known as a “sacred circle.” Mandalas evoke the cycles of nature, personal and universal symbols, ritual, transcendence, and wholeness. It’s a magic circle that can both soothe and i…

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March 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Art Benefiting Community, Art for Healing, Art From the Heart, Art Matters..., Art Matters...to Everyone!, Musings, to Artists, to Residents | One comment - (Comments are closed)