Interviews
Artist Liana Bennett
For all those years I used my art to earn a living, it was never just for the joy of it. I worked for so many years doing what other people wanted me to do, it was like a slow death. So now, I don’t care if my work appeals to anyone. I …
Author Helen Landalf
I think having to face my mortality at an early age has made me appreciate my life more. When you’re young, you tend to think that you have all the time in the world, but I learned early that you don’t. When I have a dream, I go for it instead of postponing …
Artist David M. Price, Sr
There is something special involved with creating your own interpretation of a scene, object or person. In my case, each brush stroke takes me along the road toward what I visualized before starting. Sometime I succeed in portraying that vision –often I don’t. But occasionally something turns out even better than I had visualized. …
Artist Sean Michael Hurley
I always counsel people on the power of repetitive doing. It’s ironic, because this is always the source of profoundly deep and personal style. You can feel the electricity as surely as you’re watching a world-class athlete when someone is really flowing in whatever their media. That kind of power is only found …
Artist Stephanie Speight
“The act of creating is critical to my personal well being. It is the avenue through which I approach everything. I am simply not happy if not engaged in the act of manipulating materials toward some new end.” Stephanie Speight credits her upbringing on an Oregon farm for her love of nature, …
Music Therapist Wendy Zieve
As a child, singing at summer camp was such a powerful experience of joy and unity, it interested me in the power of music. Wendy Zieve grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and learned about music therapy at a career day in high school. She received her bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy …
Author Carole Estby Dagg
Instead of writing books, I became a librarian, surrounding myself with books other people had written. Clara and Helga’s story kept nagging me, though, so for their sake I decided to risk rejection. If they had repeatedly risked their very lives to prove women could walk across the country on their own, how could …
Writer Hayden Bixby
“So many of us are pulled in so many different directions, and I know that I have to compartmentalize the things on my plate in order to get everything done. Writing allows me to consider the various elements and find ways to unify them. That process is calming and reassuring.” Hayden …
Songwriter Laura Adams
“When the things I think and feel are connected to a beautiful melody, it comforts me. It both validates the emotions and releases them. After time has passed and the situation has changed, I still have that song, to remember that time, and have it be beautiful.” Laura Adams is a singer …
Artist Peter Goetzinger
“If we are still enough, we can experience healing through art every day; in the simple act of looking out the window, gazing upon the art of creation and taking a deep breath. Art is all around us and healing takes hold when our eyes and hearts are open.” If you have …