Health Care
“I lived in a time in which there was liberty in America…” This is what I’ll be telling my grand kids. I normally don’t offer political commentary in my blog. There is a time and a place and with the recent Obama health care bill passage, now is the time. If there is one issue that I have felt strongly about (as so many others do), this is it. I can see the writing on the wall of what is to come. Actually, this post has an art mention. This is the email that I sent out recently to those who care about this health care issue. If you don’t…
Pamela Anderson
No, not that one, but I bet Pamela Anderson, the talented abstract artist in Milwaukee, WI, gets that reference all the time. Funny though, I never brought it up when I spoke with her recently. We had a nice conversation and realized that we both had a New Orleans connection. She had lived there a few years back and we both confessed that we missed the food. What struck me most about Pamela’s artwork was her vibrant use of color. Some examples below and more can be seen on her website, Paint My Sky. Pamela also does sculpture as well as figurative work. She participates in an event called Open…
Valorie Schleicher
Another Milwaukee artist who I met through my searches is Valorie Schleicher. I was taken with her unusual sculptural form, particularly her Strong Woman series. When I spoke with Valorie, she explained that she had been inspired recently by the death of Alexander Maqueen, who took his life as a result of his mother’s death. It was interesting to us both in that conversation, how this talented fashion designer’s ideas for his designs may have been inspired by his mother and then with her death it was too much for him to bear. Here are just a few of her wonderful sculptures that can also be found on Valorie’s website.…
