Throughout our lives, we get groomed to be acceptable to others: our parents, our teachers, employers and society at large. For those with lived experience with grief, mental health challenges, chronic disease or abuse, the stakes are even higher. We … Continue reading
Category Archives: creativity
Creativity As Exploratory Surgery
Expression through creativity is many things: colorful, raw, poignant, a statement. Creativity is also something else: Exploratory surgery for the soul. Feeling angry? CREATE Feeling depressed? CREATE Feeling betrayed? CREATE Feeling pain? CREATE Reach inside that wound, pull out the … Continue reading
The World We Create – New! Painting in Progress
What lies within you? Fire? Water? An alternate universe? The sea? So much lies within: heart, soul, mind, emotion, nerves, breath and love. This painting seeks to encapsulate through line and color what lies within. Painting is a new creative … Continue reading
July Artist of the Arboretum
Paulissa Eliana Kipp July 2014 Artist of the Arboretum Paulissa Eliana Kipp,is a creative brave heart and truth prospector revealing the beautiful, the curious and the often overlooked. Paulissa lives in Omaha, NE with her … Continue reading
Building Character: Journal 52
Another week, another adventure! I am participating in Chelle Stein’s Journal 52 project on Facebook. Each week a different prompt is given and each participant creates an art journal page that corresponds with the prompt. So much beautiful work is … Continue reading
He’s A Sophisticat: Journal 52
What makes you smile? Have you stopped to consider that question? For me, living in a city that has a vibrant arts scene, strong community and urban landscape (Omaha, Nebraska) makes me smile. Animals make me smile as well, especially … Continue reading
Wow! I Have Gone International! Published in the UK’s Creative Mental Health Guide
Hello friends, I recently submitted my poem, “Enough of Depression”, to the Creative Mental Health Guide. Published by Creative Mental Health UK, the bi monthly e-magazine that publishes art work, poetry and anything creative that aids good mental health. … Continue reading
Journal 52: Somewhere, Simply
Open your heart and somewhere becomes the world. The journey continues in the Journal52.com project. The prompt for Week 2 was Somewhere, Simply. As I constructed the page, I began thinking about how simple acts of kind connect people … Continue reading