Dan Allison Crime Novelist

Dan Allison Remembers Beaux Arts

Dan Allison is a professed crime novelist who draws heavily from his past lives. Beaux Arts, being one of the more colorful places around, finds its way into his stories. I found Dan on-line, though a google search which turned up one of his characters reminiscing about an evening spent there.

I was very interested in talking to fellow writer inspired by my muse so I arranged to meet Dan for brunch at the 36th Street cafe on 36th Street in downtown St. Pete for brunch and a chat. We ordered the breakfast special and coffee. A sip of java was all it took to take him back to where it all began. His story poured out in a steady stream that would have made Karaoke proud.

Dan was in high school in 1969. “It was right off Park Boulevard but it always seemed difficult to find, even when it was there, I’m sure I couldn’t find it now that it’s not there.”

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Leslie Lowinger at Graphic Arts Workshop

I’ve know Leslie Lowinger for years, and had a pretty good idea what goes on at the Graphic Arts Workshop, but I was unaware of the early GAW members’ involvement in radical politics and heavy influence on San Francisco’s socially conscious designs. To get an upclose picture of the graphic Arts Workshop today, I spoke to Leslie about how her involvement with GAW has shaped her career.

Mari: What has been your biggest inspiration as an artist?

Leslie: My art career has been strongly influenced by my travels and my love of adventure. My choice of medium, style and content changes with the environment. In New York I painted landscapes. In Hamburg I studied printmaking. My San Francisco prints have taken on an oriental flavor. As I travel, I establish relationships and work on collaborative projects, group shows and events. I like working at the (Graphic Arts) Workshop because I get to work with people, share successes and failures.

Mari: I know you are involved in several arts groups in San Francisco. Which of the groups have helped the most to further your career as a printmaker?

Leslie: The equipment and camaraderie at the Graphic Arts Center are essential for my work as a printmaker. Artspan, producers of Open Studios, has been very effective for selling my work in San Francisco.

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Cena Jane Fashion Artist in Sonoma

Cena was moving to her new Sonoma Salon, and we were her discussing career as a fashion designer and plans for adding a new line of dance wear to her bridal and evening wear collection.

Mari: Here we are once again and you are moving into a new studio in Sonoma. What is prompting this move?

Cena: I wanted to move the salon into my studio so I can be closer to my fabrics, because that is where my ideas come from. My ideas come from the fabrics in my studio.

Mari: Has your career turn out the way you planned?

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Janice Taylor

Interview with Janice Taylor, painter and performer who live at Project Artaud and performed in the “House of Usher “in Theater Artaud.

http://www.abazaar.com/Film/JT.html