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All Life Is Sacred: a Conversation with John Malloy

Richard Whittaker 80,393

"By the time John Malloy was seventeen, he had moved forty-four times. In his young life as a rolling stone, Malloy ...

Suiseki: the Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation

Richard Whittaker 45,407

It's a tradition in Japan: suiseki are natural stones that suggest natural scenes or animal and human figures. The ...

Music Is Something You Do

Richard Whittaker 40,006

Let me tell about an experience with Gregorian chant. It's just a few notes and we were doing it in English so we ...

Looking with Your Whole Body

Richard Whittaker 35,090

"She visited the Bay Area, where she lived on a horse ranch south of San Francisco. The exposure to the beauty of ...

A Conversation with Lily Yeh: Art for Social Transformation

Richard Whittaker 35,068

Art teacher Lily Yeh started an initiative that transformed an abandoned lot in inner-city north Philadelphia into ...

Truth Demands to Be Lived

Richard Whittaker 32,570

Among many other assignments, Americ Azevedo, philosopher, author and lecturer of peace studies, now leads a ...

A Conversation with John Upton: a Life in Photography

Richard Whittaker 30,177

As a student, he rubbed elbows with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Minor White, Imogene Cunningham and Dorothea Lange, ...

A Story of Grace and Grit

Richard Whittaker 29,662

"I don't look at myself as a healer, but I do know healing when I'm in the presence of it. And it's mysterious, ...

Camille Seaman: We All Belong to Earth

Richard Whittaker 29,397

Camille Seaman, world traveler and renowned photographer, says that "Part of the magic of an artist is being able to ...

Radical Joy for Hard Times

Richard Whittaker 28,364

Have you ever loved a place that isn't there anymore? Maybe you had an unkempt field made for exploring, or a patch ...

Kindness Journey: an Interview with Geoff Nedry

Richard Whittaker 27,491

"People talk about how if they win the lottery they can help so many people. You hear that all the time. But if you ...

Greeting the Light: an Interview with James Turrell

Richard Whittaker 27,336

"I was a Quaker and then, for a while, I wasn't. And now I am again," Thus begins a deep conversation with one of ...

Bryant Austin Interview: Awe & Wonder

Richard Whittaker, Anne Veh 26,631

Bryant Austin is one of the few people on earth who can say their life was transformed by a literal tap on the ...

Considering Media in the Light of Relationship and Attention

Richard Whittaker 25,128

Mary Rothschild studies the effects of media on young children. She tells this story, "Each child was happily ...

Peter Kalmus: the Question of Progress

Richard Whittaker 24,742

"In every house, there were blue flickering lights going in synchrony because everyone was watching the same TV ...

Birds and Saints Don't Collect

Richard Whittaker 24,179

Larry Brilliant has tended to find himself in the right place at the right time -- he has engaged with some of the ...

The Great Unknown Is Me, Myself: a Conversation with Jacob Needleman

Richard Whittaker 21,219

"Jacob Needleman's voice has been prominent in the conversation about man's inner possibilities for some forty ...

In the Beginning Was Love

Richard Whittaker 19,749

"I think he [Robert Lax] understood the difference between hearing and listening, and he really emphasized the ...

Money and My Relationship with It

Richard Whittaker 19,571

In this intimate conversation, individuals who have spent much of their lives exploring the depths of our ...

a Conversation with Jane Wodening: Doors of Perception

Richard Whittaker, Anne Veh 18,924

What is a place? We don't have a word for it, really. A place is an intimate thing. It's so much more than just an ...

Conscience and Courage

Richard Whittaker 18,912

Lee Hoinacki, author of four books, ex-Dominican priest, scholar and deeply connected with Ivan Illich, was a ...

A Common Humanity:A Conversation with Bob Sadler

Richard Whittaker 18,406

I began thinking, What am I doing this for? And I just stopped and relaxed. Something shifted in me and I took in ...

Artship in America

Richard Whittaker 17,349

Slobodan Dan Paich's bold vision as an artist has taken him across many different countries, peoples, and cultures. ...

Godfrey Reggio: a Call for Another Way of Living

Richard Whittaker 17,259

After he was asked to leave the order of the Christian Brothers, and with no training in filmmaking, Godfrey Reggio ...

Advocate of the Unwatched Life

Richard Whittaker 17,170

"The matter of being alive is something to be investigated. I think we take it for granted too much. That we're ...

Sheila Donis: a Life of Giving

Richard Whittaker 16,186

Donâ€™t miss this interview with an extraordinary woman, Sheila Donis, born on the west side of Chicago, one of nine ...

A Conversation with Irene Sullivan: Understanding of the Heart

Richard Whittaker 15,703

Irene Sullivan is an artist. She's lived in remote regions of Alaska as a nurse practitioner; her experiences with ...

Ana Valdes-Lim: the Reward Is in the Process

Richard Whittaker 15,517

Ana Valdes-Lim is the first Filipina graduate of New York's prestigious Julliard School. She was cited as one of ...

Remember to Remember: Nicholas Hlobeczy

Richard Whittaker 14,838

"When I was in the fourth grade, in the summertime when it would rain, we would always go out on a friend's porch ...

Remembering an Outsider Artist

Richard Whittaker 14,152

"The old man, Smith, was another story. For one thing, he possessed style. His hair, combed straight back, fell ...

A Morning When Everything Fell Into Place

Richard Whittaker 13,689

"I finally found a Motel 6 about twenty-five miles east. When I got there around 11pm, from the cars and people I ...

Magic Flute: a Conversation with Marvin Sanders

Richard Whittaker 13,313

A pawnshop flute. That's how Marvin Sanders makes art out of uncertainty. From living on the streets to graduating ...

Threshold Choir: an Interview with Kate Munger

Richard Whittaker 13,170

"In November of 1990 I was invited to spend a day with a friend of mine who was dying of HIV AIDS. He was comatose, ...

A University Art and Science Fusion Program

Richard Whittaker 12,677

"Diane and I feel like the students need to break across what E.O. Wilson calls "the borderland." We have an ...

How Do We Wake Up?: a Conversation with Mark Dubois

Richard Whittaker 12,519

"Nature's subtleness changed me even when I wasn't aware of it. In retrospect, I feel sort of like an insensitive ...

Charles Bigger: on Philosophy

Richard Whittaker 10,621

"Our contemporary tradition has made the ego so central. And it solidifies itself with the whole idea that knowledge ...

Reflections on Journalism

Richard Whittaker 10,427

This is a piece for all the "independent seekers of the truth" out there. Paul Van Slambrouck, Pulitzer ...

Interview: Stephen De Staebler

Richard Whittaker 10,302

"We live in our body like its an animate sculpture. The fact that most art in civilization has been figurative is ...

Petra Wolf: Many Rivers Flowing

Richard Whittaker 9,183

An early sense of abandonment, a missing gravestone, and an inheritance promised to her in a dream, were all part of ...

A Conversation with Meredith May: I Who Did Not Die

Richard Whittaker 8,870

In this interview, Richard Whittaker sits down with Meredith May, author of "I, Who Did Not Die," a true story of ...

The Table of Voices

Richard Whittaker 8,770

Richard Kamler was drawn to art's potential to touch people deeply and, in that way, bring about real change. In ...

The Whole Child and Urban Education

Richard Whittaker 8,557

In this rich interview, Ida Oberman, founder of the Community School for Creative Education in East Oakland, ...

Rue Harrison: Beyond the Known Territory

Richard Whittaker 8,531

"When I was in my twenties, I would let myself go and when an image came up, I'd paint it. I'd have a piece of paper ...

A Story of Grace and Grit

Richard Whittaker 7,623

Grace Dammann's life is nothing short of remarkable. From a physician treating early AIDS patients to receiving the ...

Interview: Enrique Martinez Celaya: Self and Beyond Self

Richard Whittaker 7,550

The work of artist Enrique Martnez Celaya speaks for the dignity of interiority in a world absorbed by the external. ...

To Try to Have Some Healing, a Conversation with Silas Hagerty

Richard Whittaker 6,421

What would you do to remember a deep wrong? Would you ride over 300 miles, through the Dakotas and Minnesota on ...

Growing Through the Cracks: a Conversation with Sachi Maniar

Richard Whittaker 5,284

Over the past ten years, Sachi Maniar has nurtured breathing spaces for young people in the midst of profound ...

Aura Glaser: a Moment of Beauty

Richard Whittaker

"There are obviously so many ways of talking about beauty because it is one of the great mysteries. Beauty is truth, ...

Richard Whittaker

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