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    Category: Blog

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    What’s Your Story?

    Though we’d never met before, I was just as excited as if I were meeting an old friend. She’d read my blog post about the…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
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    Don’t Wait Until You Say Goodbye

    I’ve just returned from the funeral of my dear friend Evan. Saying good-bye has got to be one of the most difficult challenges we face…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
    Portrait of Artist Donna Skaropoulou

    Meet Working Artist Donna Skaropoulou

    Donna Skaropoulou is a painter.  Originally from the U.K., she traveled to Greece in her early twenties, and there fell in love with the sounds,…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
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    My Landlady is an Angel

    I’d moved to England three years earlier, living in a small town in the country. It was pretty, but also pretty lonely. Facebook was my…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017

    The Wise 11-Year Old Artist

    My nephew Phoenix turned 11-years old yesterday, though I’ve always secretly suspected him of being 41. I’m visiting to help him celebrate his 11 years…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
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    Men Like Him

    He thought his career was over. Bill Jay had been a professor of the History of Photography. He’d published dozens of books and hundreds of…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
    Portrait of Artist Leslie Jean-Bart

    Meet Working Artist Leslie Jean-Bart

    “Becoming a working artist has literally saved my life.” So admits Haitian-born photographer Leslie Jean-Bart. Now an avowed New Yorker, Leslie has spent the past…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
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    Watch This Space!

    It’s been exactly seven years since I stepped on that airplane to France. I was so frazzled that when I arrived, I slept for 24…

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    crista-cloutier May 24, 2017
    Portrait of Artist Summer Lydick

    Meet Working Artist Summer Lydick

    Summer Lydick is a Working Artist. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and a Master of Arts in painting, Summer continued…

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    crista-cloutier May 19, 2017
    Portrait of Artist Adam Cook

    Meet Working Artist Adam Cook

    Adam Cook is an emerging artist in Beaumont, TX. He drew constantly as a child, but at age ten picked up a guitar and for…

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    crista-cloutier May 19, 2017
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