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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are Musicians More Empathetic?
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 […]
Engaging Audiences...a new concept or imperative?
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 […]
"Beer Is Culture" The Sixpoint Art and Design Exhibition
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 […]
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
A Poetry Project to Celebrate National Poetry Month
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A highlight from over at GOOD: In Thomas Jackson’s “Emergent Behaviors” photo series, flying cheese balls and hovering plastic cups replace nature’s swarming forces. The Brooklyn-based Jackson, who shot his ongoing series in New York City and upstate New York, was inspired by “self-organizing emergent systems in nature,” like termite mounds, locusts, and birds. Jackson has always […]
Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. For example, the food that we eat says something about each of us, as do the tools we use and the chairs we rest on. Objects that surround the […]
Check out this article from Colossal on a recent installation by Ink Tank, an arts collective in Austin, Texas. “A few days ago I happened upon a rather unique art project called Last New Year in theAustin American Statesman, showing photos of a dilapidated home recently transformed with a number of installations by a small […]
For those musicians that are frequent flyers, exciting news from Congress– published at Blue Grass Today. In what is being hailed as a victory by traveling musicians in the US, the latest reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration has codified provisions that create a uniform national standard for musical instruments being treated as carry-on luggage. This […]
Check out this new article from GOOD’s Lifestyle on a new type of restaurant in Oakland that is creating opportunities for up-and-coming chefs… Guest Chef is the brainchild of Bay Area real estate developer Scott Cameron. Simply put, it is a permanent space without permanent cooks…So the 20-seat restaurant changes hands every two weeks […]
Check out this post by E.B. Boyd at The Morning News about Facebook’s new ‘Timeline’ feature. From the post: Facebook’s Timeline (the new version of the user profile which is slated to be released to the general public “in the next few weeks”) wanted to do something more: It wanted to convey a feeling. […]
Someone's Taking a Stance Against TOMS Shoes
Check out this article from GOOD about Oliberté, a new brand that dares to campaign against the ideals of TOMS Shoes. “At Oliberté, we believe Africa can compete on a global scale,” he says, “but it needs a chance. It doesn’t need handouts or a hand up. It needs people to start shaking hands […]
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