Artist, Author, Television Host, Producer, and Songwriter.
Community - A showcase for the creativity of Shannon’s friends!
The YMCA youth in our community love to do Service Learning Projects! Recently, they collected aluminum cans and donated the money to our local homeless shelter. Yesterday, I had an opportunity to work with these great kids on a project that would help them pay it forward to their own youth programs. First…
Read More
Everybody is cutting costs these days. And I was especially ruthless with my budget this year. But when it came time to paying my membership dues for the Hollister Downtown Association, I was happy to write the check. These folks are a tremendous force in our community. They do more than revitalize downtown, they revitalize…
Read More
In recognition of American Heart Month, the Hollister Downtown Association has partnered with the YMCA and Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital to help raise public awareness of heart disease through your participation in ” Get Red” events. I’m taking part by giving a 10% discount on all studio sales for the entire month of February.…
Read More
Saturday, Gene Carbone represented The Pinnacles Partnership ( PIPA ) in a qualifier round at the Peter Hay Golf Course in Pebble Beach, for a chance to compete at the AT&T to help raise funds for PIPA. Gene competed with 66 amateur golfers, to see who would get closest to the pin on hole…
Read More
When I got in touch with Shannon, she said she was intrigued about the way in which I’ve made music and words collide in my fiction. This is my favorite subject, of course. I’ve even rededicated the month of October to the collision of books and music. Rocktober, I call it, and have been recruiting…
Read More
When I was writing the second novel in my Darkness Unleashed series I kept wanting to add a vampire to it. Unfortunately, because of the plot of that series it wasn’t possible. Still, this one idea kept running through my mind the entire time I was writing. I know that vampires can be overdone,…
Read More
To create is to liberate the soul. – Sabrina Bolin We all have stories inside us; some choose to express those stories by simply telling them to a friend. Others choose artistic outlets, using an artist’s brush and canvas, a dancer’s body, or instruments and voices to give their stories life. And then there…
Read More
Is “inspiration” necessary for someone to be creative? Here, when I say inspiration, I’m talking about the mythical, romantic notion of what inspiration is. In this mythical world, inspiration usually is random, coincidental, and unexpected. It seemingly comes from nowhere. When people decide to look for inspiration, their gaze is indiscriminate, taking in everything…
Read More
This quilt is 70 x 102 inches and made from a pattern called Tile Tango by Atkinson Designs. Each year I attend Janet Locey’s Quilt Retreat at St. Francis Retreat in San Juan Bautista, and last January this was one of the projects I worked on during the four-day event; however, I didn’t finish…
Read More
We welcome your fine art, writing, music, video and inspirational posts! Please click here for submission guidelines. .
Post Courtesy of Doug Jones… If a person earns $50 a week and the bills are $51 there is a financial stress. I have been told that the financial stress of not having money for a $400 rent payment is the same as the stress of not having a $4000 mortgage payment. The stress on…
Read More
When it comes to art, sometimes it helps to just stop thinking rationally at all, which is how I came up with the idea of a huge seashell with a girl on top of it. This mixed media piece was created using several mixed media and image transfer techniques to become a bright, happy,…
Read More
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to support the arts during the Music and Theatre in the Park. It was a beautiful
Many businesses in downtown Hollister, CA celebrate the 1st Friday of the month by staying open a bit later and offering
New to First Fridays? Here's the description from the Hollister Downtown Association's website: "On the first Friday of each
Leslie David filmed the opening reception at Blak Sage Gallery, and created a wonderful short video about the Open Studio
It was a day of starts and a day of finishes, and nothing in between. Larry Paddy and Maeve are finally complete. Yeah I
Wow what an incredibly creative and lively class at Southside School this week! The students have only a few weeks to go
Joe's Lane seems to be a place of healing for many people, myself included. Enjoy~ Lyrics Joe's Lane
I am so excited about the debut of our first music CD collaboration, Virtually Possible! The proof arrived
It's that time of year again, when the artists of San Benito County share their heartwork with the public! Please save
Some milestone events happen without warning and change your life forever. Others you can see coming a mile away. And you
Monkey Made of Sockies has had his portrait painted twice with the guitar. It may very well be his favorite instrument to
Special thanks go out to Jenn Ostenson and the Cerra Vista PTO for booking me for an Author Visit last month. It
Site by Synaptic Systems Inc. - Using the STUDIOPRESS Genesis Framework under WordPress
Let’s Connect :O)