From the Gallery Director

I find it tragic that individual creative expression is so undervalued in our world. We look to the masters and the experts for guidance in our aesthetic tastes and are convinced that our own opinions are not schooled enough to "get" the purpose or meaning of art.

Parents are proud of their children's creative efforts in crayon and poster paint, yet do not think for a moment that it is art of any consequence they are creating. It's not is it?

There's that question again! Is it Art? Or is it not?

Well, I think it is art and of consequence. I also think a new understanding of creativity is called for in this new millennium. A new understanding of what the essence of our humanity is. And this is simply that we are, by first nature, creative artistic beings...and that only when misinformed or misguided by parents, educators or our communities, do we forget our native abilities and roots as creators.

Art results when an individual expresses their creative nature. Despite what educators and the art establishment would have you believe, creative expression is not a learned skill. It is an innate force, residing in the deepest depths of who we are.

We are born creators. We have no other choice but to be creators. But we can also be blind to our power as creators and unconscious of our responsibilities as creators, of our art, our life and of our reality. And through this lack of knowledge we can unwittingly create cruel and bitter lives for our selves and others.

Artists have a responsibility to help members of their community to wake-up to their own creative genius. We can do this by acting as mediums for the expression of the creative forces of our universe. True art is like a force of nature, it speaks regardless of the mundane interpretations that the intellect might attempt to define it by. It affects despite the many attempts to relegate it to niche markets. It empowers all who experience it even if they are unaware of the awakening that has occurred. 

Artists that breathe their universal creative nature into the body of their art, will create artworks and processes with embedded transformational properties. Art thus enabled will find its expression as humanity’s highest reflection of truth. That's it, really...art is about truth. The truth of who we are, the truth of what we have been and the truth of what we as a people will become.

Sound the trumpets! The artists are coming!

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