Art vs. Life

Mon Dieu, did you take a "Holiday In Cambodia?"

I made Play-Do for my daughters once. I got a phone call, and when I came back, the dog was reluctantly wearing a new unicorn antler.

Nice article in this week's Cape Codder, Katy. I tried to find it online to link to it, but I think they post a week after the print edition.

Art is problem-solving, and is vitally important to a complete education. It integrates math, communication, cultural perspective. It may not be structured with the content that standardized tests use (except at Harvard, where you can major in art and never set foot in a studio), so it has dropped out of favor by those who define education by superficial test scores.

Thansk for the thoughtful article. I often wonder why art isn't considered as important as math, science and history in the public schools. I propose that art and music be included in the MCAS, and be given equal time in the public schools.

Neddy! I had a wonderful time! Robert.Logan agreed your work needs to get out to the city in that college coffee shop, young working professionals & laptops hang while sipping on the java. It will be groovy man and I will help you. Davis sq. is a desired spot and artists are welcomed. I plan to write a Blog and will post photos of last night at the studio, so stay tuned....not today but soon.
Kathleen,

You are a delight and perfect hostess. Displaying both artists together was genious. I will be looking forward to other shows. The people I met are so much fun and we shared lots of laughs. Thanks to you both for a memorable evening that will always make me smile. You need to start an art colony of your own.

Yipes- I'm really not THAT hung over, considering. Nice meeting those of you that made it. The stuff'll be on the walls for a month, so make an appointment w/Laurel and Katy.

Thanks for the lovely show, Kate and Ned. It was nice meeting local glitterati and a couple of CCToday bloggers :-). The music was fabulous, too. Good luck with your art.

Go Ned!

Neddie, did you invite Mav? I believe I will be able to make it, though I have 1,000 previous commitments on the list for Saturday. Will you extend the show at all?

The Rock Hopper was there? Dang, I missed him/her! But thanks for a lovely time, and it was fun to chat with Ned and the gang.
-BiPR (Trail Hound)

http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/artist_pages/Bates/articles/tp_june_06.html
David Bates! Oh yeah I'm going to be imageGoogling him for days... so great.

Okay, Clyde Connell
http://www.amazon.com/Clyde-Connell-Life-Louisiana-Woman/dp/0292711417 that was easy... still working on the classmate...

Katy thanks to you & Steve for the gracious gathering and the chance to meet the Rock Hopper! Because of my flu I already forgot the names of your favorite Texas Swamp Boogie artists- your classmate the palletteknife painter and the sculptress, first name Clyde... I'm gonna try to google them anyway- great voodoo folks... what was the Penal Colony she had a studio in? So amazing...

Good use of the local high school jazz band.

Hi Kathleen,
Twinkle Toes has a dance commitment off Cape that afternoon, but hopefully we'll make the tail end of the social. It was nice meeting you, family and friends last year. The herring are running between Walkers and Slough Ponds. Spring IS finally here!
- Your neighbor around the corner,
BiPR

I'll be there... maybe I'll meet a Plus-Size Bohemian Socialite. I'm giving it one more summer and then I'm going straight to the source and relocating to Bohemia.

Hi, Kathleen. Just ran across your blog about Mucha and Cape Cod. When I was in Prague in 1999, I visited the Mucha Museum where I saw a photo of Mucha visiting a family in Brewster, MA. Ever since I have been searching for another reference to his stay on Cape Cod, without success. I was beginning to wonder if I had made it up. I was just googling around today and came across your message. Do You have any more information about his connection with Brewster? I even asked a Librarian at Brewster and someone from the Historical Society but they knew nothing about this. I would appreciate any info you might have. Thank you for your attention. aajay

I would like to meet Roy Simmons. I might even go "over the mountain" from Harwich to attend. Hope you and yours had a great Thanksgiving.

Thanks for the hospitality Katy and for a cutting-edge demo of art-meets-science from Ben... and for the chance to properly meet your glamorous webmistress Laurel Labdon. Yours becomes a most important salon in the esthetic life of the Silicon Sandbar!

Jozef Tiso, and many others were like that back then. What amazed me is that there were no soviet propaganda, but plenty of Nazi relics.

Love Trnava;
Beautiful Slovakia,(only Country paid for removal of Jews) under the trash.
Brrahtislava, velmi pekne, too big for me. Josef Tiso, apoligist to Hitler. Czesky Secular, Slovenski Catholic, no gays allowed. I love puzzles!

Just went there for two weeks of fun. Money was easy, and loved the Architecture in Brno was great. Had old style Bohemian, Austrian, and Russian stytles. Lovely area.

http://imhz.com
http://imhz.livejournal.com/

WB

great fun. do you have a blog? yes
always the back to work after a trip
but what a fabulous trip you took
yes we should get wind power for the cape before we burn up all this fossil
fuel and end up with out power at all
why are we so slow on all this
have you read Mckibbens Deep Economy?
What is your work. Why did you go to
Vienna.

Don't know if I can make it to Brewster. Got too much work to catch up on. Basically we landed in Vienna and spent most of the time in BRNO. Food and drink was great. (beer .75 cents). Hired a translator and just went all over town and north to Pardubický kraj and tasted wine through the South Moravian Region. Even met a Russian Pub owner and I explained how I was told during the 70's and 80's I would never vaction there, just to fight. Great two weeks of our lives.

Here is a tacky video I made of some of the stuff we did.

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http://video.google.com/
videoplay?docid=1929503981950414708
&q=brno+june&total=7&start=0
&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

how amazing, I would love to know about
your trip. What took you there? Wasn't it just beautiful. Please come by our
studio some day for a cup of coffee
and tell us about your journey

Strange, I just got back from there too. Never saw an American the entire time we were there.

Went to BRNO Vienna and a ton of small villages in Czech and Slovakia.

http://imhz.livejournal.com/4944.html

you are great. I want to know more
about the Colonel, I will have to
wait until I return and that will be
hard. Take care, enjoy this time.
Kate

The Colonel is telling me that his time in eastern Europe was spent guarding a bridge in Bosnia, and that he didn't bomb anyone personally.

Bonjour madame,mais oui, mais non, amazing all the combinations
in this country. I had a great friend Stacy that lived in Brooklyn
your writing reminds me of her, though I know you are not her
as you would recognize my name. I have lost track of her and
miss the banter of words. Take care, have fun in the sun, will
let you know what I see in Croatia. ta ta for now

French dad, Boston mommy.

no, no not serbian, just interested
in that part of the world. I am an fullbred WASP, Yikes, ScotsIrish,Welsh
coalminers who came to leadville Colorado during the goldrush, and some
German Where are your ancestors?

You're not Serbian, are you?

I really like your writing, Would love to talk to you more
maybe someday this summer. I love that you love taking care
of your kids, Its really cool. oh Yikes that word is so old,
It is the job of all jobs, neverending, scary, tiring, undersold
and completely exhausting. It is wonderful that you can take time
and write about it all. I am off to be with my grandchildren before
I travel, for my 39th anniversary present. I have four grandkids,
two and half, four months, seven and ten. I just adore being with
them, and am half dead when I return. God bless you with your little
ones, perhaps someday we can meet and I can hear more about the war
and all your thoughts. Happy summertime. Kathleen

I could give you the details if he were home. He doesn't talk about his time in the service much, but I've gleaned enough to know that he was some sort of engineer. He was in that Bill Clinton war.

monponsett, tell me more would you
I am truly interested. When? what should
I know that I don't? write about it
it would be so interesing? Could you?

My husband helped bomb Serbia. Give them our best if you see any.

Its never too late, maybe it just go
lost in the mail. ha. life is a trip
huh?

That's a great story about the "essay".

I wrote a one word college entrance essay entitled "penis". It's been 30 years now and I'm still waiting to hear if I got accepted.