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Persistence: Your Most Powerful Creative Tool

A presentation and reading from a new publication, Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad With Commerce. 

This session addresses the predicament of creative people of all kinds-artists, writers, actors, musicians, dancers…–in a cultural environment in which success is most often measured in commercial terms, and where it is increasingly difficult for even the most talented to get a hearing.  In this context, we’ll be thinking specifically about the benefits for the artist of a disciplined mind and a commitment to practice-how to acquire and develop these qualities, and how to apply them to creating a life in art that will survive the vicissitudes of an art world dominated by market concerns.

A former art school Dean (Otis Art Institute, Loyola Marymount University) and a widely-published art writer, I bring the perspective of long experience and an empathy for the creative passion.  You can find out more about me at my website, http://www.peterclothier.com/

For additional information about the book, you may want to see these reviews:

http://perhapsperhapsperhaps.typepad.com/what_the_butler_saw/2010/02/persist-in-praise-of-the-creative-spirit-in-a-world-gone-mad-with-commerce-peter-clothier-by-james-s.html

http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com/

When:  6pm, March 3, 2010  

Where:Gallery 825

825 North La Cienega Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90069

phone: 310.652.8272

fax: 310.652.9251

www.laaa.org