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Artistic Space equals Sacred Space

How does the artistic space, the act of creating, become a sacred space, a sacred moment? In March of 2017 I delivered a lectured titled The Artistic Space, A Sacred Space. This is a recap and extension of the lecture.

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Inside the Space of Lost Memories

Inside the Space of Lost Memories references the social and deeply personal ways in which memory, experience and memory's landscape intertwine and become unexplained lines of thoughts and tangled, faded knots of language

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Walking into a painting: First Official Chinese Art Exhibit at the De Young Museum - San Francisco in the late 1940's / early 50's an

Chance and graffiti can change an artist's career, especially when one paints large, bold canvases. They could end up on the walls of American research institutes and health care facilities.

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Paintings in Health Care Spaces

Paintings and Health Care

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Sellmer Donates Paintings

Thompson Rivers University's brand new Chappell Family Building for Nursing and Population Health got even prettier this week with a large donation from a well-known local artist.

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Paint, Music and the beat goes on

Music can play an integral part of painting and the creative process.

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Paint By Numbers - a cultural phenomenon

During the 1950's the Paint By Number craze infiltrated and swept across North America. Today Paint Parties are now part of the cultural milieu for many North Americans. Way back in the Renaissance period, Leonardo da Vinci, born 500 years ago, on May 2nd, 1519, seemed to have sparked an interesting concept that was picked up and introduced into popular culture during the 1950's. Trace elements of this cultural phenomenon continue today.

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2019 Keynote address to the TRU BFA Graduates

Find Your Thumbprint. Tricia Sellmer's address to the Thompson Rivers University's 2019 Batchelor of Fine Arts graduates.

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Interview with the New York Studio School

Tricia Sellmer shares her New York Studio School interview published November 15th, 2018

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Art History with a Twist: Victorine Meurent hosts a Garden Party

Art History is fascinating. Some readings can be daunting, heavy, loaded with artspeak.

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