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Summary of Creative Arts Camp 2018 in Photos and Notes
By Polly Castor on August 30, 2018Read moreCreative Arts Camp was a wonderful week with fabulous people in a beautiful place. Everyone was busting past limits,...
21Artist in Residence Summary 2018
By Polly Castor on August 29, 2018Read moreWell, I have just completed my first time ever being an Artist in Residence, which is something I hope...
Favorite Photos Taken by my Students in my Art of Seeing Class
By Polly Castor on August 28, 2018Read moreWe worked to exchanging things into thoughts, seeing the ideas of Soul, instead of objects of sense.
I Gave my PowerPoint on Abstraction in Maine
By Polly Castor on August 27, 2018Read moreI gave my PowerPoint talk on abstraction last Saturday evening. The talk is titled Abstraction: From Impressionism to Non-Objective...
Thoughts from Karen Montanaro
By Polly Castor on August 26, 2018Read moreI can't help myself, I've featured Karen Montanaro the last two years at Creative Arts Camp and now I'm...
I Love My Life (Poem by Alex Cook)
By Polly Castor on August 25, 2018Read moreI love my life More than I ever thought I could Because I’ve learned I can’t die.
Black and White Paintings Done at Camp 2018
By Polly Castor on August 24, 2018Read moreMy first day as Artist in Residence at camp was rained out, so since plein air pastel painting was...
Creative Arts Camp 2018 Photos of Day 1
By Polly Castor on August 23, 2018Read moreThis is the first year I have had the honor of both teaching here as well as being an...
Photos of Summer Flowers
By Polly Castor on August 22, 2018Read moreI rejoice in all these gorgeous summer blooms!
Feel Free (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on August 21, 2018Read moreShe talks about the dialectic between form and content, concluding that form is the more crucial of the two,...
Recent Food Around Here
By Polly Castor on August 20, 2018Read moreIn this post you can see a bit of what we've been eating this summer.
Grace Notes #14 (with Photos)
By Polly Castor on August 19, 2018Read moreSo now I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good. I’ve...