by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Aug 1, 2022 | Art Career, smARTist resources
I’ve been hinting and hinting (or you could say “stalling and stalling”) as I worked and worked at something I had up my smARTist sleeve. Seems as if—even when you think it’s going to be simple—any project worth its grain of salt takes months to pull...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Jul 25, 2022 | Art Career, You and Your Art
A summer thunderstorm just blew in, and out, leaving my grey deck shiny-slick with rain. The air smells fresh with the charged ions that only a wild rain can summon. And I feel as if those invisible particles are beckoning me to take any small action...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Jul 19, 2022 | Artist Statements, You and Your Art
What on earth do I mean by “you are so much more than your art”? There’s a family story that my mother, a watercolor artist hanging with her Big Sur, bohemian crowd (think Man Ray, and the insolent Henry Miller), declared to the gaggle of male artists in...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Mar 14, 2022 | Artist Statements, Reflections
This week has been challenging for my why, so I got to thinking about your why. Why do we do what we do? Why do you? Why do I? I sat at my kitchen table playing solitaire (clears my mind!) and thought about how I used to think our why was baked into our personality,...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Mar 3, 2022 | Reflections
Today, while pinning up my hair after a warm shower, I was struck by the luxuriousness of this quiet, simple activity while Ukrainian women, children, and men sleep in the subways, in freezing cold underground garages, or in the cement bunkers ironically built by...