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Travel Down Under

9/13/2017 9:19:41 PM

My first trip to Oz (Australia) last month was heaps of fun and an awesome learning opportunity with a few doses of culture shock.  I started my adventure in Sydney, met up with my artist friend who organized my first 2 workshops in Newcastle and Mittagong, spent a mini holiday with her in the spectacular and very windy Blue Mountains, taught another workshop in Brisbane, met up with other friends in the balmy Noosa, taught in Adelaide, took a little trip to Hahndorf, and taught in Fremantle a.k.a. Freo.  At the beginning of my 5-week trip it felt like winter there [...]

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An Open Letter to "JoAnn"

9/5/2017 11:28:06 PM

Dear JoAnn,   Thank you for taking the time to email me again.  I said "again" although I never received anything from you before but something tells me that you wrote me a year ago as Mr. M. Garrahan, one of your many aliases, I believe.  In your last email as Mr. Garrahan and in this one as JoAnn, your purpose of contacting me was the same: to criticize me harshly as a national-level watercolor exhibition juror for not giving awards to certain artists who you think deserve accolades.  Interestingly, in each email the list of artists who you thought should have won [...]

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