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    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
    Portrait of Crista Cloutier on a mountain

    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
    Photo of stamped poem

    She Looked Like Georgia O’Keeffe

    Every family has a story. They called her “Grandma Ach” because of her habit of beginning each sentence with a guttural sound of disapproval. “Ach! What…

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    crista-cloutier May 19, 2017
    Portrait of Artist Tsvetomir Iliev

    Meet Working Artist Tsvetomir lliev

    I learned to do the work without expecting anything in return, and to concentrate on the things that I can do now and in the…

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    crista-cloutier May 19, 2017
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    How To Live Like A Wild Artist

    My heart stopped when I saw it. How could I have lived in this house for the past five months and never known it was…

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    crista-cloutier May 19, 2017
    Portrait of Artist David Foster

    Meet Working Artist David Foster

    Artist David Foster has had a passion for nature photography for nearly fifty years. He focused heavily on photography during his twenties. Then life carried…

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    crista-cloutier May 19, 2017
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