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Is There Money for Artists?
Considering reports of federal funding cuts for humanities programs, I explore what’s available in Pacific Coast #arts #grants and #residencies (U.S.) for #writers and #artists. In the future I’ll also consider mutual aid resources: https://jeanvengua.substack.com/p/is-there-money-for-artists
Dear Sister . . .
Check out my latest Issue #190: A 1953 letter from one sister to another. Also, collaborative and community-based art, Lyla June, Andre 3000, Lisa Angulo Reid, Vida Cruz-Borja, Ursula LeGuin, and more! Intersections of history, art, and culture. #Filipino #AAPI
Postcard art
Original postcard art. Ink and watercolor. I send them as-is, no prints. Hoping they won’t get destroyed in the mail or in weather.
A “Stamp” stamp
I finally bought a stamp pad, so I carved a rough little “stamp” stamp that is basically a frame for whatever I want to draw and put into it. In this case, I tried out some little portraits, a question mark, a rabbit (or kangaroo?) and a mouse deer. The mouse deer has fangs, andContinue reading “A “Stamp” stamp”
Little Changes in a Big-Change World
I finally incorporated my domain in this website, so the URL is more streamlined and I have a few more options. It took several days for this change to “propagate,” as they say. But here it is. Now, after more than a decade of being an on-and-off WordPress user, I’m finally learning how to useContinue reading “Little Changes in a Big-Change World”
Eat the Sun
Ink on watercolor postcard. I’ve switched from using mostly pen to now using a brush, which has really loosened up my line. #mailart
Mail Art in Latin America
Listening to a talk by Vanessa Davidson and Florencia Bassano on mail art in Latin America. There are some ideas here that I’m thinking about. I’m using this blog also to archive some media that is meaningful to me. Mail art was “concerned with the mechanics of communication in general, [and] with aesthetic communication inContinue reading “Mail Art in Latin America”
Outgoing Mail Art
Ink and watercolor on watercolor postcard with asemics. 2/10/2025
Mail Art
Ink and watercolor on watercolor postcard, 2/16/2025 #inkdrawing
Jean Vengua 