We are all artists.

We Create everyday.

We create our world with our thoughts and actions

and dreams

It's a blank canvas.

You're not an accountant. You're an artist.

You're not a attorney. You're an artist first.

We are here to create beauty. Live for beauty.

We create intimacy and connection. We create life.

We are all artists.

Let's come together an create a 12x12 for the Holiday Art Box Show.

Let's celebrate each other.

All *artists* welcome.

bigmodernart.com

Pick up Panels now. The 12x12 Art Box Show. Austin

Holiday Art Box Show. Call to artists and creative Types. Anything goes. More info: bigmodernart.com

"Western Society is outraged if an individual gives his soul as much daily attention as his grooming."  --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It's a crazy crazy world. If it's all coming to an end...and it is...we gotta choose love. Jump off the edge. Scare ourselves from loving so big.

 Love love Love.

It's time to get out of the darkness and into the sun.

Even if it's Alone.

A Wide Listening Sky.

..and the girl never looked back. 

Never. Looked. Back.

New York, Miami Beach, Vegas and D.C. in the next 6 weeks.

Staying Present. Remembering. The Beyond. 

Big Picture. Big Love.

The big picture.

bigmodernart.com

He said to me...

No matter how many times you fail. 

Come again. 

No matter how many times you fall. 

Get Up. Get UP.

Bring your brokenness.

Bring your joy.

Bring your passion. 

Just Bring it.

Running through fields with flowers. Dancing. Beauty. Loving Everything. New Worlds. 

Heart bursting with love. 

filled with so much magick and beauty that the heart can barely contain it

Loving all the moments.

Is where the love always is.

I choose to Live. Really Live. 

Burning it Up. 

Burning it Down.

Going so far out. Wings will be necessary.

Going so big. That it'll be a crazy success or I'll fall on my face. 

But the space. That space between

is where mediocrity breathes. Average lives.The masses breed. That's not my space. Not my world.

I don't want anything I can completely understand

My eyes burn with unshed tears.

My body is weak

from so many

silent years.

--Ben Harper

Ring the bells that can still ring.

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

that's how the light gets in.

--Leonard Cohen

A Full Fall

*Teaching Acrobatic Yoga Workshop. October 25th.

*Austin $100 Art Box Show. November 29th. Modern art Studios (All Artists Welcomed)

*Tribal Moon Dance. Palmer Center. 12/14 (New Dancers welcomed)

*Circus Yogis and Holiday Fun. Palmer Center 12/14,15,21,22 (acrobats and yogis welcomed)

*Art Install Lobbies in Houston. Dallas. Vegas. Denver. October/November

*Call if you would love to be involved. Imagine what we can do together. jUSt Imagine

Art is...

Monet said that color is his joy, torment...his day long obsession. It is my fire. My passion. My lover. It reveals my fears, doubt, sincere insanity and perpetual bliss. It wakes me in the middle of the night. It comes to me in dreams. It speaks to me in a quiet raging voice urging me to bring it into this world. It paints itself when I listen. When I listen. 

One Regret

One regret dear World,

that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed

is that I did not kiss you enough.

Hafiz

It is time.

It's time for us to Rise. It is time to remember. It is time for the Beyond.

No More Masks. No More Painted Smiles. Let's Be transparent

Maranda@bigmodernart.com

The Mosaic Highrise. My 9th Lobby in Houston This year.

Call to Artists. Austin's $100 Holiday Art Box Show. Nov.29th

Austin's $100 Art Box Show November 29th. Call to Artists.

Come One. Come All. This Holiday Show is open to everyone. Get Some exposure.

The Concept: The $100 Box Show. Take a 12x12 panel (art box), give it to 150-200 artists, students and creative types and bring it all together in November for a huge, kick ass Show. Two galleries in Houston have made this annual Holiday Show  Huge success and we are bring it here.

Boxes ($10) are ready foe pick up. Purchase as many as you wish. They are $10 each. Go overboard. Go freakin crazy. There are no limits. Submit as many as you wish. Simply drop off your finished box November 17-27th from 11am-4pm, 7-10pm. 

We sell the art for $100. The artist receives $50. A Charity receives 10%. 

We are publicizing it with several magazines and ads throughout Austin. All schools, art classes/departments, groups and organizations are invited.

UT Art Department, Zilker Elementary, Girls School of Austin are a few groups participating.

We will have Art Box Pick up at the Studios and also this Sunday outside Alamo Drafthouse located near S. Lamar and Threadwell from 12-2pm if you can't make it to the studio. Flyers, postcards, online updates are available 10/15th.

Call with any questions. 713.922.8584

Modern Art Gallery and Studios.

Industrial.

Gallery.Studios.

---Pushing the Edge.

4700 Burleson. H. Austin, Texas.

Sponsored by Maranda Pleasant Gallery. 4802.2222 Austin