Born in the West Texas town of El Paso, and currently residing in the South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven, Meaghan Ritchey loves places with regional distinctiveness and local flavor. Meaghan earned her BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from The King's College NYC in 2008. Meaghan is the Managing Editor of The Curator. She also works as International Arts Movement's Administrative Coordinator & Programming Associate.
Day Job is a publication for anyone who has ever had a job they’ve loved, a job they’ve hated, a life-long calling or a way to make an easy buck. In short, it’s about work, a celebration of the everyday ways in which we spend our time and energy. As the inimitable Studs Terkel [...]
This April New City Arts Initiative will host their first ever forum this April. At this weekend gathering in Charlottesville, VA three questions will be addressed: 1. Why do the arts matter? 2. What is good art? 3. What is the responsibility of the artist. The New City Arts Initiative is a Charlottesville network of art [...]
Consider supporting “Where We Call Home” on Kickstarter. It’s a story about the ‘right kind of wrong’ and a developing a sense of place. Where We Call Home WHY Why this story now? We believe that home, real home, is increasingly important (and sadly absent) in a world that is disconnected from a sense [...]
There are still plenty of good ol’ singer/songwriters who gather a fitting crowd regardless of venue, wardrobe, advertising, or irony earning points. Bill Callahan and David Bazan are those types of musicians.
If you haven’t read it already, take a moment to read Dorothy Sayer’s essay “Why Work?” She closes the piece with a thought-provoking quote from Jacques Maritain. “What is required is the perfect practical discrimination between the end pursued by the workman and the ned to be served by the work, so that the [...]
It goes without saying: postcards from El Paso are sent with irony enclosed in the stamped envelope.
From the Comment Magazine article On Discipline by Carey Wallace… “The art world is full of talk: gossip, politics, and a smattering of actual ideas. But the question of artistic discipline, the central problem of a working artist’s life, is almost taboo, perhaps because the answers are at once so obvious and so daunting. Tellingly, [...]
From William Writes About the World Around Him: “When we’re told stories of the great modern stylistic changes in Western art—representational to abstract, tonal to dissonant, formal to free verse—we always hear about photography’s effect on visual art and we sometimes hear about the effects of recording and amplification on music. Maybe there’s a story [...]
From Drawn.com: “That is, you see a picture of Jackson Pollock smoking a cigarette and looking intense and you think “smoking and being super intense are part of what made Jackson Pollock the artist he was.” And then, worst of all, “if I were to start smoking and being all intense then I would increase my ability to create [...]
From the Front Porch Republic article “Preserving Local Culture” by Doug Sangster. “…I began thinking about how important memories are, and it occurred to me that our children are ossuaries of local memory. They are the curators of our culture, remembers, charged with preserving our shared history.” “And while watching him do his jig it [...]