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Making a Living as an Artist: An Interview with Laura Heck

September 10, 2018 / Neville Harson

During one of my recent explorations of Denver’s Santa Fe Drive Art District, I stopped in a store called ReCreative.  If you’re an artist in the Denver area, you will want to stop in–regularly!  ReCreative is basically a thrift store for artists, and they have everything from minimally used paints […]

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Pour Painting and Play

August 6, 2018 / Neville Harson

A recent article in the New York Times stated that creativity was the new midlife crisis “thing.” Instead of the now-cliched responses to midlife, like buying a sports car or having an affair with someone younger, the article noted how people were instead enrolling in painting classes and taking singing […]

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Teaching Radical Arts

October 30, 2017 / Neville Harson

For the past two months, I’ve been teaching a Radical Arts course at a local high school. Every Wednesday afternoon, I get together with a group of 10-20 students and barrage them with what I hope are new and interesting ideas. Rather than present the material as a historic thing […]

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6 Overlooked Factors that Influence Depression

April 25, 2017 / Neville Harson

When your tell your doctor you are depressed, the first thing they will usually do is to prescribe antidepressants.   If they have a more holistic orientation, they might ask you about your eating, sleeping and exercise.  All of these are good things to take into account when treating depression.  But […]

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Sensitivity Needs Expression

June 9, 2016 / Neville Harson

I was facilitating a group for teens and their parents the other night when I had one of those sudden epiphanies; a moment where everything became clear for me about How It All Works. A realization that crystallized both what I do and why I do it. A moment that […]

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Does Your Band Need a Therapist?

March 17, 2016 / Neville Harson

In the documentary “Some Kind of Monster,” the band Metallica hires a therapist to keep them from falling apart. Their bass player has just quit the band, and their frontman enters rehab to try to get a grip on his alcoholism. The therapist (or “performance-enhancing coach”) encourages the band members […]

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Art and Grief

February 4, 2016 / Neville Harson

Grief comes in many shapes and sizes, and how grief is expressed can look very different from one person to the next. Beware of anyone telling you specifically how you should or should not be grieving the loss of someone or something you love–there is no “one-size-fits-all” when it comes […]

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How David Bowie Used Music and Art to Keep Himself Sane

January 15, 2016 / Neville Harson

I’ve been thinking a lot about David Bowie this week. His death has left me not with a David Bowie-shaped hole, but shot full of little David Bowie-shaped holes. What I mean by this is that I have been listening to his music throughout my life, from fifth grade, when […]

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Making a Living as an Artist: An Interview with Laura Heck

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Pour Painting and Play

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Teaching Radical Arts

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6 Overlooked Factors that Influence Depression

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Sensitivity Needs Expression

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Does Your Band Need a Therapist?

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Art and Grief

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How David Bowie Used Music and Art to Keep Himself Sane

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