These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
It’s hard to believe summer–that Edmonton ‘Unobtanium'–is half over. Or for the optimists among us, half begun.
Of course, our summers are longer than we give credit for. It could hit plus 27 many days in September. It may not snow until after Halloween. But still. If we cannot wallow here in the frozen north, what have we got?
I’m here to save you from aimless wallowing. To take my big blogging hand and point you in five wonderful directions–towards art, faith, hope and love–this Friday.
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The Kaleido 12 FOOT 12 challenge is back, and looking for submissions. Your mission: dream up an engaging, innovative creation to fill a 12 by 12 foot space, then, during Kaleido this fall, build it on site in 24 hours
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Maybe you’re like me. You know what eCommerce is, but you don’t understand enough about how it works. You do know enough to know what can go wrong. Credit card data and privacy concerns. Complicated systems trying to play nice together. Expensive fees. You see why I worry?
Worried. Past tense. Squarespace has made it possible for me to embrace eCommerce and sleep at night. That’s remarkable.
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One more ArtLuck before we hit the summer months for rest. It turns out to be a doozy.
Pam shows up early to help. We bring out enough chairs, we think. Then people begin to arrive and we find out we were wrong. In the best way. We've underestimated.
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I tell her about a walk I remember where she and her husband confided in me and my wife about their doubts. Their open wounds. Their very human selves. I tell her it was the first time I had heard this vulnerability from older people I respected. People I viewed as impenetrable. A viel was lifted that day. If I remember right, we were literally crossing a bridge at the time. Stopped in the middle, watching water trickle over rocks below.
It is just then, as we share little stories we’ve both heard before, that the real loss hits me.
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Five fingers pointing you in five directions for art, faith, hope and love ‘round these here parts in the week ahead.
We'll send you to Taste of Edmonton, The Carrot for a Von Bieker concert, and some places that have nothing to do with food.
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Five Fingers pointing you in five directions for art, faith, hope and love in the days ahead!
Each finger has a role to play. Here is your guide.
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Two kids in tow, I started with a promise. For every artist I stopped to talk to, I would give the kids $1 in treats at the end of our trek. At the start this applied only to artists I already knew. We modded the rules quickly to include conversations of 5 mintues or longer with new connections.
By 5 PM, I was buying the kids supper. It was well worth it. I collected many conversations, and formiddable stack of business cards too.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
Next week I will resume Website Wednesdays - offering step by step tutorials to fix this problem. I want every artist I know to have a great website that shows off the best of who they are. I want that for you and I believe it’s possible.
In the meantime, I want to know what is getting in your way.
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Welcome to the new format for weekly arts updates. It’s as simple as the hand on your wrist.
Each week, The Bleeding Heart Art Space will help you grab a handfull of art, faith, hope and love in and around Edmonton. Categorized by finger, of course.
Five suggestions, five fingers, five themes.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
