Keeley Manca Lambert
Keeley Manca Lambert, originally from Texas, graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Acting from Texas State University, located just south of Austin. She is an artist in residence with Transform, a faith-based non-prophet arts organization seeking to wrestle with the deep questions of art, faith and culture.
Currently, Keeley is taking classes at The Upright Citizens Brigade, a well known improv and sketch comedy theatre here in the city. Along with her passions for acting and laughter, she enjoys songwriting, traveling, dancing, and a good plate of food.
Check out this video from GOOD that explore a new, creative type of education. Imagine receiving an electric drill to use at school—and the freedom to learn and explore while building things with it. That’s what happens at Brightworks, a year-old nonprofit private alternative school located in San Francisco’s Mission District. The school is tiny—just 20 [...]
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Do participate in this interesting conversation on arts funding happening over at The Huffington Post… Early this year, Yancey Strickler, one of the founders of the crowd-sourced funding site Kickstarter, made a big claim. In an interview repeated across the internet, Strickler said Kickstarter expects to distribute more money in 2012 than the National Endowment for [...]
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Check out this article from GOOD on an inventive artistic experience… Last weekened, on a perfect day in New York City, Jon Cotner led a small group of participants on the second of two interactive walks through Central Park. Cotner is an artist whose work centers on walking and talking. He’s co-written a book of [...]
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Check out this article by Tom Jacobs from the Pacific Standard via The ArtsJournal… Music education produces myriad benefits, strengthening kids’ abilities in reading, math, and verbal intelligence. New British research suggests it may also teach something less tangible, but arguably just as important: The ability to empathize. The kids in the music group joined weekly hour-long sessions [...]
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Check out this article by Michael Kaiser from The Huff Post Blog via Arts Journal. The new (renewed?) focus on audience engagement appears to emerge from the sense that conventional arts organizations are losing their audiences to other forms of entertainment. Our audiences have the opportunity to be entertained at home on their personal computers and [...]
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Beer Is Culture The Sixpoint Art and Design Exhibition Beer is Culture is inviting you to create an original design or illustration that successfully taps into this theme, “Beer Is Culture” and upload it to their wall. You may also submit your design by sending it in a private email to beerisculture@sixpoint.com. Tell your friends to [...]
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Check out this special treasure I found on KOTTKE… Caine is nine years old, lives in LA, and built his own arcade out of cardboard boxes in the back of his father’s auto parts store. watch the video here—>http://vimeo.com/nirvan/cainesarcade
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A Poem From Us is a website featuring regular people, reciting their favorite poems. Their goal is simple: use technology to help folks share their love of poetry with others. Interested in participating? Here’s how: 1. Become a contributor! Start by recording a video of yourself reading a favorite poem. Then, upload it to [...]
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Check out this innovative use of photographs by Scott Hazard found at Colossal. Raleigh-based artist and landscape architect Scott Hazard uses carefully layered photographs to create delicately torn concentric shapes symbolizing plumes of smoke, clouds, and mysterious portals in walls. Hazard has also used adaptations of the same technique to create a number of fantastic [...]
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Check out this video from SwissMiss… Watch the Video: The Inverted Bike Shop “This whole buisiness is built around building bikes with people…the client will come in and we will actually build the bike with them.” “For me, there’s this reaction to wanting to kind of connect with humanity again, and you can’t hammer [...]
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