Finding Creative Permission, my new post exploring creativity and nursing, is up at TheONC.
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TheONC: A New Blogging Community for Oncology Nurses and Teams
Last week CancerNetwork launched TheONC; an online community for oncology nurses and staff. TheONC is a gated site for professionals so login is required to participate. The video link below explains more fully:
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TheONC features bloggers with a wide spectrum of expertise writing on various aspects of cancer care. As a contributing blogger, I write from the perspective of an artist working in oncology. Through weekly posts, readers and I will discuss creativity, and its pursuit, in nursing. Images of my artwork accompany the posts. My first went live yesterday.
AJN’s On the Web
This morning I’m drinking my first cup of coffee, thumbing through the January 2012 issue of the American Journal of Nursing. A familiar sentence catches my eyes in On the Web, page 22. It’s a line from a post published (and I wrote) on their blog Off the Charts. Thanks AJN!
It’s gonna be a good day.
Today You Can Find Me Here
photo by jparadisi 2011
Today Off the Charts published a guest post by me,
Artist Matt Lamb
Matt Lamb is an internationally recognized artist who uses his fame and resources promoting world peace. Umbrellas for Peace is one avenue of this global pursuit. I have not had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Lamb, but I have read his biography Matt Lamb: The Art of Success, by Richard Speer. Drawn to his story of finding his voice as an artist after a serious health crisis, and leaving a lucrative career, I found many of Mr. Lamb’s insights about life, death, and creativity resonated within me, a nurse, cancer survivor, and artist. I posted a comment on his blog, thanking him for sharing his story.
Last night, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Matt Lamb wrote a post about my work as an artist and a nurse. His respect for both professions is clear, and I am appreciative of his generosity and kind words. Be sure to check his art, his blog, and Like his Facebook page.
We’re Kind of a Big Deal
If you look closely at the left side bar of the J Paradisi RN home page, you will notice the Alltop widget. Groucho Marx supposedly said, “I would never join a club that would have me as a member,” but that’s Groucho. You can subscribe to my RSS feed by clicking on this link.
Scrubs Magazine Features JParadisi Paintings in Fall 2011 Issue
Three Vases, Two Dollies, and a Thong. oil/canvas by J Paradisi 2011
Scrubs Magazine published two series of paintings by moi in the Fall 2011issue. It is a rare opportunity for an artist to publish more than one or two images in a article, so to see the newest series, Vessels of Containment: Part I posted on the Scrubs Mag website is gratifying. I usually create paintings in a series; while each one stands alone, they were intended to be exhibited together. Vessels of Containment: Part I featuring Catalina Island Pottery (made on Catalina Island from 1927-1937) and vintage dolls, explores collecting as a means of holding.
Also unique about the Scrubs Magazine, is that the print version is entirely different from their website. Previously available only in uniform stores, now you can subscribe for monthly home delivery. Past issues have included articles by popular authors Theresa Brown, RN, Garrison Keillor, and in the Fall 2011 issue, Dana Jennings, journalist and cancer survivor who posts for the NY Times Well Blog. You’ll find a very nice article about me, which features five paintings from my series, From Cradle to Grave: The Color White on page 48.
Incidentally, photo credit for all the images, both online and print, belongs to David E. Forinash, my husband.
BlogHer Features a JParadisi Post Today 9/3/11
JParadisi RN logo image credit: jparadisi
This morning BlogHer features a JParadisi RN post, Of Med Errors and Brain Farts on their home page.
You Can Find Me Here
Calligraphy by jparadisi (not in Equine show; I just like it)
About Face is a new magazine in Portland, featuring interviews of local celebrities, artists, and entrepreneurs. You will find the summer issue by clicking here, then download the PDF by clicking on the cover thumbnail on the lower right sidebar. If you scroll to page 70 you will find a small photograph of my painting Twenty-One, currently part of the Froelick Gallery group show Equine. There’s a little information about the painting as well. Equine runs through July 16, 2011.
Dr. Dean Burke at Millionaire Nurse Blog mentioned my post, 10 Things to Do On Time-Limited Medical Leave in the Nurse Blog Round Up: The Arse Sitting Edition. Thank you!
Equine Group Show at The Froelick Gallery for June First Thursday
Last night was the opening reception for the Froelick Gallery group show, Equine. I am fortune that my painting Twenty-Oneis included among the work of many accomplished artists. Tonight is First Thursday, and there is a reception for the show from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm. The show runs all of June, through July 16, 2011.
The Froelick Gallery is located at 714 NW Davis Street, Portland Oregon, 97209.
Artist Statement for Twenty-One
The painting Twenty-One is inspired by the prehistoric drawings found on the walls of the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in France. These drawings, made before humans possessed written language, are the earliest known record of primordial expression, and they are images of horses. Later, humans learned to use symbols instead of pictures to create words. Inspired by the transition of pictorial language into words, the repetitive form of grazing horses in Twenty-One suggests ancient cuneiform. Impressed by stylus into clay tablets, cuneiform script marks the abstraction of pictorial expression into symbolic characters. It is the precursor of the modern alphabet.
Twenty-One by jparadisi
