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Last update: January 26, 2012

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Thank you! It's overwhelming to keep track of 3,000+ independent artists - like herding cats!

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I exhibit in about 10 art shows each year and visit about 5 more. At each show I photograph as many artists as I can. If you are not on this website yet, please don't take it personally. If the crowd is buying I will stay in my booth! ;-) Also, I try to never interrupt an artist making a sale. If you are working in a new medium I will gladly shoot another image. Don't be afraid to visit my booth and ask me to come photograph you in yours. My show schedule is here.

Thanks, and Safe Travels.
- Sally

Kathy's Cancer

My dearest, longest friend, since we were 12, has cancer. Again. She is the mayor of her city, has taught Jazzercise for 30 years (and still does), is a "civilian" member of the National Cancer Institute - American Cancer Society research granting committee and is an artist.

About 10 years ago, she fought against her own breast cancer and won. This year, she had a completely clear mammogram on August 4. On August 18 - just 2 weeks later - she found a new lump that measured 2". It had already metastasized to her lymph glands. She is fighting again, and she will win.

The message here is do the self exam! Kathy is an insanely fit woman, she eats a very, very healthy diet and she knows much more about cancer than the average American. She gets regular check-ups including mammograms. With all of these advantages, cancer has hit her twice. She will succeed because by following medical advice for self-exam she found the new cancer herself and can recover from it. If she ignored the advice, she would too soon be gone.

There is too much to live for. Too much fun to have. Too much art to let outside of ourselves. If you are too afraid to check, and there is a cancer, it will beat you.

Do your self-exams. Guys, get your PSA levels checked. Everyone, get a colonoscopy.

You can't beat cancer, if you are too afraid to see if you have it.

Kathy will win because she is aware. Because she has educated herself about her condition. And because she follows the doctors' advice.

You can too.

Steve Jobs

Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam

The following is by John Maeda, president of RISD. (A link to the source of this text is below the article.)

"I'm one of many nerds who started programming with an Apple II. I bought the first Mac in 1984, right before I got on a plane to go to MIT. When I got there, I saw all the upperclassmen had PCs -- the "macho computer" -- and thought I was a sissy with the "pansy computer." But I loved it because it could draw circles so much faster than anything else, and it let me play with the images that were dancing in my head.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things, Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only "John is good at Math." They saw a life for me like the one most of my classmates had after graduating in the 1980s, developing software for Oracle or Microsoft (which worked out quite well for most of them, to be sure). My formative years were spent steeped in STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math). Were it not for Jobs' influence, I may not have come to believe -- as I do so fervently today - that you need the "A" for Art to turn STEM to STEAM.

Jobs fueled my career as a technologist, artist, designer, and now as a leader of the art and design school by which all others are measured in the world. All of my artistic work -- like the five works that went into MoMA's permanent collection -- was written on a Mac. I even had my own personal ode to Jobs two years ago in London, where I had a show at the Riflemaker Gallery where I made multimedia sculptures out of iPods.

Jobs foresaw that innovation now extends beyond smaller, faster and cheaper technology -- that technology didn't have to be a rational thing. The MP3 player wasn't a new thing when the iPod came out, nor was the iPhone the first smart phone. But they were the ones that made you give a damn. In his own words, the reason why the Macintosh was so successful was that it was created by artists, musicians, poets and zoologists. Jobs saw that artists and designers could make the technology emotional, desirable, human.

In his 2005 Stanford Commencement address, Jobs, then on the mend, adjured the graduates, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." By introducing me to design so many years before, he had already given me this wisdom. On a grander scale, I thank Jobs and Apple for proving that art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century, like science and technology did in the last century. It is this realization that will keep America competitive; the next Apple will be born if America invests in turning "STEM to STEAM" in its research and education."

Here is the link to original page in which the above appeared in the Huffington Press website:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-maeda/steve-jobs-innovation-_b_998120.html