It's no secret that the internet is revolutionizing the art world, much like it did to the music industry, but it's also difficult for the artist to figure out where to start. There are a lot of art web sites that exist and more starting up every day th…

  Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By and for artists, book recommendations based on experience. This list is comprised of books that have hel…

  You need at least these five traits to be successful as an artist: tenacity, intelligence, talent, desire and resilience. I’m not talking about the level of resilience you need in order to recover from a traumatic experience like losing a li…

The Risk by Anne Sexton When a daughter tries suicide and the chimney falls down like a drunkand the dog chews her tail offand the kitchen blows up its shiny kettleand the vacuum cleaner swallows its bagand the toilet washes itself in tearsand the bat…

In March I gave a formal presentation on the Non-ordinary Reality painting series, or as many people refer to them, the water paintings. A Non-ordinary Reality: Listening to what you can see — the neuroscience behind the paintings. That was the titl…

For Immediate Press Release                   Kill Date: April 24, 2013 Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation Presents: Holly Ballard Martz’ grief knot (grieve not) 2012, 12” x 12”, encaustic and mixed media on panel. Art & Social Change C…

The Sustainable Arts Foundations supports writers and artists with families. "The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit foundation supporting artists and writers with families. Our mission is to provide financial awards to parents pursuing creati…

This month for First Thursday Art Walk I've activated my space with my social art Twisted Twister. We laughed and enjoyed playing with the installation. Twisted Twister This is not the Milton Bradley variety of Twister. In Twisted Twister visitors are…

Another First Thursday Art Walk is fast approaching. I’ve been thinking about the years of First Thursday art studio conversations I’ve had and I’ve come to the conclusion that most people just have no idea what to ask an artist. It can be uncomfortable a…

There are quite a number of blogs and web feeds I follow on a regular basis, some of them are indespensible tools for an artists toolkit. Here they are. What websites do you think are valuable and important for an artist and why? Tell me in the comments s…