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Artists Promos
Artists Promos
Promotional Packages for Artists. I create photos, promotional text, and multimedia videos to help you sell your work. Sometimes as artists we become so busy creating we lack time to promote ourselves. Yet, self-promotion is vital to thriving in good times and surviving in bad. Working collaboratively with artists, I identify and articulate strengths and [...]
Quiet Mind of Star York
“Quiet Your Mind, Open Your Heart” is a multimedia video about internationally renowned sculptress Star York. Star York trains horses and practices Tai Qi to nurture her creativity. Internationally renowned sculptress Star York describes her creative process to create award-winning sculptures of wildlife, Native Americans, Cowboys. She quiets her mind and opens her heart by [...]
Bev Jenai in Her Own Words and Images
Bev Jenai, (www.bevjenaiart.com) a multi-talented African-American artist working in Sedona, Arizona asked me to produce a book about her and her work. I dutifully showed up, notebook in hand, and asked her, Who are you? A creative, complex woman, not slowed down by stereotypes or small boxes, she launched into her story. I quickly [...]
Drag Queen in Motion
Fine Art at High Speed. New Mexico artist Jeff Brock designs and races vintage race cars. When I heard that innovative New Mexico artist, Jeff Brock was customizing a classic car into a land speed race car, I knew there was a good story. The goal was to document his design process to promote what [...]
Social Change
Social Change
Social Change through Multimedia Documentaries. Multicultural diversity has formed me. From childhood within a United Nations community in New York City, to covering civil unrest in Central America and living and working in Thailand and Peru, I find it natural to relate to people of many cultures, socio-economic backgrounds, and beliefs. Although I began with [...]
DMZ Phoenix
Time to Serve Those Who Served The Justa Center in Phoenix Arizona helps homeless senior citizens get vital documents, a source of income—whether it is employment, social security, etc., and a safe place to live. About a year ago they asked me to do a video about homeless senior veterans. The result was this multimedia [...]
The Peace Maker
A Palestinian Peace Maker in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Palestinian Sami Jabber and his family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where they opened a café called Alfanoose, The Magic Lantern. It has become a popular gathering place for great Middle Eastern food, music, and international camaraderie. I created this story for a Santa Fe [...]
Hannibal Oral History Project
Students interview elders about racism in America’s Hometown… Hannibal Oral History Project I was asked by the Hannibal Community Partnership for Reconciliation (CPR) to teach middle school students how to interview their elders about racism in Hannibal, Missouri. They had a team of 18 racially diverse students interview both Caucasians and African-Americans about growing up [...]
Explorations
Alternatives
Over the years I have been exploring ways to manipulate images. Some of these are through photoshop alone. Some combine alternative mixed media, which include photographs that I have digitally created, paintings, gel emulsion transfer, or fresco. These are some ways I am exploring by manipulating images in photoshop. I created this explosion of lizards [...]
Explorations
Being around so many creative artists, I feel drawn to exploring with different media, not just photography. Sometimes exploring means a journey inward instead of to another continent. A dream, a vision, a painting, can become the passport stamp. Exploring can be traveling to Greece with Jungian therapist and dream tender JoHanna McNamee and going [...]