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More than anything, it’s the songbirds that suggest wilderness here in Peoria, IL. At the studio downtown, I often each lunch outside under two trees, just a stone’s throw from a four [...]

*There’s a free offer for close readers of this blog post… This much time on the road has taught me that each residency has its purpose and impact. Two weeks into my time here at [...]

A filmmaker friend of mine has encouraged me to keep playing around with film, so I gave myself 45 minutes this morning to walk around the old Peoria Cordage Company building (where our studios [...]

It seemed so obvious once I realized it, but basically the thought is this: There are parts of my personality and patterns of behavior that I haven’t accessed for two and a half years. When [...]

It’s been one week of “commuting” to “work” on a “schedule” at Prairie Center of the Arts and, so far, it suits me. The commute is, of course, riding [...]

In my quest to find out what is “quintessentially Midwestern,” I gathered a few quotes over the weekend about the impact of this region on folks who grew up here. Former student [...]

I’ve never spent time in the “Midwest” before and it’s been unusual approaching a city and landscape that I feel no personal or historical connections to. As a lover and [...]

  Short and sweet, author Jerry Klein’s description of the old Cordage Building where Prairie Center of the Arts and our studios now reside, sums this drawing up nicely: “The [...]

Studio space is shared at Prairie Center of the Arts, but if you can imagine a 90,000 square foot building with four artists in it, you’ll have a sense for how vast the studio space here [...]

A bedroom. It’s a simple thing, really, but here’s the deal: my bedroom in the residents’ house at Prairie Center for the Arts isn’t just a room I throw my stuff down in. [...]