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FINE ARTS

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           Abstract Expressions of Empathy Series (2025 - )

                    I  begin work on this series of paintings with intent and hope of sharing, understanding, and sympathy                       with all who suffer cruelty, heartlessness, and uncertainty living on this magnificent planet. I make                               these art works with hope the paintings might be a means of extending self to others with kindness and                     love instead of harboring multitudes of heavy sorrows alone, which can only build to an ineffective                             leaden and meaningless DEAD-END.   

 

 

Series of Interludes (2017 - )

In the midst of the long Trolly Trail series, I take time to paint without focus on theme. I call these paintings interludes as each is spontaneous, playful, and experimental as each piece, on its own terms, interacts with other Interludes and with me. In other words, the medium seems to rule, which is a pleasure, quite lovely and relaxing. Though there are both old and new themes and ideas nagging at me, I may dwell with these Interludes for some time . . .​

         

 

         Trolley Trail Series (2016 - )

In being with and in celebration of the Trolley Trail in Kansas City beginning in 2016 and continuing into the present, I walk a segment most days of the trail. Inspired by these walks, I create collages, collagraphs, paintings, photographs, in medium best for capturing a particular moment. The walks—as I open and smile at being in the middle of an open green space with others—take me from myself and my questions to a margin where I might interact and participate in a meaningful and perhaps beautiful manner one with other. The works, simple notations of all this, vary from small to large as I incorporate found objects, trail fragments, thoughts, surprises, impressions, hopes, experiemnts, worries, elations, glimpses, and meditations, each unique unto itself yet common with the life of the Trolley Trail in all its dimensions.

 

 

Writing projects I work on:         

A novel titled, "BellaVee Traveling with Others"

An illustrated and written work of inner-child therapy titled, "The Ella's Journals"

A play titled, "The Therapist"

         The In-Tandum illustrated journals of the new late-in-life joy of the 70-year-old-man and the 80-                                year-old woman, titled, "Peter and Alice Ever Having Fun" 

          The illustrated and written journals of early onset sobriety titled, "The Journals of the life-long Eighty-                      Year-Old Alcoholic Woman"

A series of prose dialogues with art works titled, “M. Laur and Aude Cosette”

An historical anthology of women traveling, titled, “Women on Trains”

A collection of poetry titled, “Absolute Horse Head”

A book titled, "The Practice Writing Creatively"

A book titled, "Writing with the Philosophers"

A series of short stores titled, "White Wings"

A novel titled, "Have a Good Murder" 

Education   

Ph.D. Literature and Creative Writing, Florida State University        

M.F.A. Fine Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts
B.A. Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

B.A. Business, University of Northern Colorado

 

Additional Art Study

Kansas City Art Institute

The Art Students League of NYC

 

Teaching

Professor (Retired), Literature and Creative Writing, 

Department of English and Modern Languages,

West Texas A & M University

 

Freelance Writing and Book Reviews

Book Reviewer for BlueInk Reviews

Book Reviewer for Kirkus Reviews

Book Reviewer for Prick of the Spindle

Writing Workshops at writers.com

 

Selected Publications and presentations

Books:

Killing Daddy, Panther Creek Press, 2002.
Woman of the Plains. Texas A&M University Press, 2000 and 2015.
Slow Mud. Pecan Grove Press, 1998.

Drama:

Mockernut Street. Production, Intimate Theatre, Canyon Texas,  2002.
Corinne Goodnight. Readers’ Theatre, Canyon, Texas, 2001.
Blue Rubies. Readers’ Theatre, Canyon, Texas,  2001.
Not Laughing. Readers’ Theatre, Canyon, Texas, 2000.
Not Laughing. Staged Reading, New York  City, 2000.
Time Was. Production, Amery, Wisconsin, 1994.

Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Articles, Creative Nonfiction, Translations;

Numerous publications in literary journals and anthologies including Painted Bride Quarterly, Woven in the Wind, Short Story, Writers' Forum, The Lowell Review, Rockhurst Review, Cimarron Review, Puerto del Sol, The Hollins Critic, Mad River, Pantheist Vision, Airplane Reading, Under the Sun, Burner Magazine, as well as readings, conference presentations, and performances.

Art Exhibits/ Publications

Gallery exhibitions, including Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City; Kansas City Art Institute; Symphony in the Flint Hills Art Exhibit; Kansas City Club; ARTichokes Art Space, 

Leawood, KS; Overland Park Art at the Center; Kansas City Artists Coalition River Market Regional; Utopian Studies Conference, Colorado Springs, CO; Establishment Gallery, Amarillo, TX; Dean’s Gallery, University of  Southwestern LA; Branding Iron Theatre, Canyon, TX; Mary Moody Formal Gallery, Canyon, TX; Centrix SPACE, Tallahassee, FL; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO; Nicolaysen Art Museum, WY; Central Wyoming College Fine Art Center; Big Red Barn in Ucross, WY; Pikes Peak Symphony Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO; Common Wheel Art Gallery, Manitou, Springs, CO.and publication or art works in literary journals, including Tampa Review; Calyx, Journal of Art and Literature by Women; Prick of the Spindle; Weave Literary Magazine; Blood Lotus Literary Journal; Present Magazine; nimble: Journal of Flash Art; Sirena: Poesia, Arte y Critica, The John Hopkins University Press.    

 

Grants and Fellowships

Killgore Research Enhancement Grants, WTAMU for 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002
Summer Faculty Development Grant, WTAMU for 2000
National Endowment of the Arts Program, Arts Corps, 1994

 

Awards and Honors

2001 Research Creative Excellence Award, West Texas A&M University

 

Memberships /Associations

Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Arbor Day Foundation 

Audubon

Buena Vista Life Drawing Group, Kansas City

Buena Vista Portrait Group, Kansas City

Clinton Lake Museum

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Dramatists Guild of America

Friends of the KAW

Hand Print Press, Kansas City, UMKC

International Centre for Women Playwrights
Jackson County, MO Historical Society

Kansas City Artists Collation
Kansas Land Trust

Kansas Public Radio 

KCPT

KCUR

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Lawrence Public Library
Nature Conservancy 

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
NINE DOT ARTS

Pen America
Protect the Flint Hills

Saatchi Art

Salmundgundi Art Club, NYC 
State Historical Society of Missouri

Women Eco Artists Directory

The Playwrights' Center

The Writers Place, Kansas City

Universal Pantheist Society 

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