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Arts KC Inspiration Award
Winner 2009
Charlotte Street Foundation
Exhibiting Artist 2009, 2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Alumnus |
I was riding along one day doing my normal fall Saturday routine picking up apples at City Market. I was headed toward my friends to meet for the 3:00 bike ride and this dude asked me, “Do you know where the Heart of America Bridge is?” I said, “Yes, I’ll show you.” I thought he . . . → Read More: How I met my fiance Art is essential to build a social change movement. How do we grow and expand? Those of us who are artists, athletes, mental health civil rights activists, and people working for change need to use our strengths. We have our numbers, our honest information, our creativity, and our passionate art and stories. Here is a . . . → Read More: We need artists to build a social change movement My testimony and public spiritual declaration. I found this video and thought I would go ahead and make this claim publicly. Yes, I’m a Christian poet. No, I don’t believe your spiritual tradition is wrong. This statement has the potential to irk both my Christian friends and my non-Christian friends, but I’ll claim it. I . . . → Read More: Does anyone even know that I’m a Christian poet? Mixing advocacy approaches give me fresh insight. “I am young, involved and in control of my destiny. I am free, powerful, hopeful, and people like me…. there are many. Sixty pushups, a six mile run, or sixty miles to Lees Summit. I can get there with no gas – I’ll watch OPEC plummet. Setbacks I . . . → Read More: I like to fight – evolution of an advocate  2 comments  Artist's Life  art advocacy, bicycle touring, bicycle-pedestrian advocacy, Bike-Walk KC, combined advocacy work, mental health advocacy, mental health recovery, Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation, mixing advocacy approaches, Pat Deegan, personal medicine, Poetry for Persona Power, schizophrenia without medication, spoken word poetry Moving beyond the subconscious: Key Life Decisions I made very early in life There are significant moments in each person’s life, not neccessarily the high and low points, but the factors that led up to those moments. These can become unconscious or automatic once the thinking is ingrained. This is an accounting of the key . . . → Read More: Key Life Decisions Stories and examples of my first exposures to digital storyellting. How I made the Olympic Combat KC video. . . . → Read More: Digital Storytelling – I made my first edit! One of my first presentations, at Air Capital Judo Club in Wichita. Photo by Kevin Dean When I was between jobs about four years ago after my two year dog grooming career, I thought I might want to go into mental health. I had been facilitating a support group one day a week and . . . → Read More: How I Became A Performance Artist Kansas City Based Business Uses Arts and Advocacy to Address Massive Mental Health Budget Cuts in Missouri and Kansas U.S. Olympic Team Member Corinna West is founding an advocacy business to tackle the rapidly diminishing funding in the mental health system. Wellness Wordworks offers motivational speaking, spoken word poetry, and innovative programs that enable people to . . . → Read More: Wellness Wordworks Launch Party Press Release One day on First Friday I was riding around through the art galleries and saw clay figures of homeless youth out on the streets. I started riding around to see how many of the sculptures there were. I found quite a few of them, just sitting in street corners and doorwells. It was a moving . . . → Read More: The Exit Project for Homeless Youth |
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