Hey everyone, thanks for such lovely and supportive comments on my last two postings! I was quite overwhelmed by your responses. I also appreciate the emails you sent too. For those of you who wrote to tell me that you also have a brain injury or some other invisible disability, I am starting a blog in the spring called The Memory Palace which will deal with not only my book, by the same name, but also with issues such as brain injury and the creative process, memory loss, neuroscience research, and creative strategies for disabled artists. Basically, it will be a blog that uses my book (due out from Free Press/Simon & Schuster in January 2011) as a springboard to discuss lots of things I bring up in my memoir. I will continue to maintain this blog, so don't worry!
In the meantime, I just wanted to say thanks and to let you know that I am on a crazy deadline this month (actually, pretty crazy deadlines here and there until the end of May but this one might be the worst one). I will do my best to post on a fairly regular basis but don't hate me if I am a bit slow at times! I have some new deadlines for you that I will most likely get to by this weekend, if not before. Some new residencies have started up and I'll check them out before I send you news about them.
I'll also get to a couple new questions people have asked me that are not listed in my FAQs (and here) so please be patient. Until then, best of all to you....Mirabee
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Hi Mira,
In case you want to share this, we are holding a Finance for Artists workshop in Boston that will help artists get a better hold of personal and business finances. No one will be turned away if they can't afford the modest fee. For info, see http://artistsunderthedome.org/malc/events/basic-finance-for-artists/
Hi Mira,
I completely understand about book deadlines. I have appreciated all that you do for us by helping us get grants, residencies, and fellowships. You are fantastic.
Jacqueline Sheehan
Thanks so much for this blog. It's been a huge help. I must have spent 4 hours combing through the resources, and I feel I bearely scratched the surface. All the best on this new year!
Mira, keep doing what you're doing. You're keeping us connected and inspired out here and are proof that our experiences can help us to connect with people in new ways. Your book's going to do a lot of good. And that's the point of writing.
Good luck this month.
--Jess
Mira-
I didn't pay attention to the brain injury part, but/and I am a 63 y/o artist with a brain injury. I am DELIGHTED that you are doing this!!!!!
Can't wait for the book. Might be fun to ask others with similar diabillity to send their stories - I had to quit "work" and have made a living since with my art.
aartco.com
I would take stories from people and edit such a project if anyone wants to go there.
Liz
Mira I've been visiting your blog for about 6 months. The content is impressive--I spend a lot of time looking in different places for oppurunities and yours is a great round up of what is out there! Thank you and keep it up!
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