For those of you that saw "Vincent" at DCAC recently - more talk about artists and their drive for something more from Elizabeth Gilbert. Plus check out Ted.com where there is lots of other progressive stuff.
Currently composed of eight DC area artists and curators, DCAC's SPARKPLUG meets regularly to discuss their work, explore common concerns, grow their community and dream up creative engagements both in DC and around the world. Through its support of Sparkplug, DC Arts Center provides meeting space, legal and technical resources and exhibition opportunities to emerging artists, curators and arts writers without current gallery representation or institutional employ. Via a continuing dialogue encompassing the theoretical and the practical, the group’s members share experiences, perspectives, preoccupations, challenges, and topics informing their ongoing artistic practice.
The goal of DCAC's SPARKPLUG is to identify superior artists, curators and arts writers without current gallery representation or institutional employ, provide an environment to help foster their development, provide legal, technical and other resources, and provide opportunities for them to exhibit both in DC and around the country.
DCAC's SPARKPLUG will actively seek its membership from all communities in the Washington, DC region with the goal of bringing together emerging artists and curators with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, a diversity of professional preoccupations and creative visions.
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Olé, this is a truly inspiring video to watch. Any creative individual would benefit by tuning into this thought Elizabeth Gilbert is so artfully sharing with us. I have often railed against the constructed idea "artist as pariah" that is polluting contemporary thinking about the role of the artist in society. Decoupling the "creative genius" from the little self and acknowledging perhaps its proper place as coming from a source that we all share and that some have access to at certain moments, is a lot healthier in my view. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen. Be there when the muse shows up.
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