Jean
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist/educator |
| Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | Art and teaching are the two threads that run through my life. No matter how chaotic things have been these two have always been there. Lately I've been off on a journey through cyberspace looking for ways to enhance my teaching and assist my students learning. twitter.com/jean999 |
| Interests | Art, drawing, painting, fiber arts, ceramics and pottery, craft, reading, writing, journaling, traveling, pictographs and petroglyphs, museums, corvids and cephalopods |
| Favorite movies | Harold and Maude, Wings of Desire, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Amelie, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Raise the Red Lantern, Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger, Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Vertigo, Rear Window, Daughters of the Dust, Brother from Another Planet, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi |
| Favorite music | Carlos Nakai, Inti-Illimani, Leonard Cohen, Yo-yo Ma, Dave Tarras, Chava Alberstein, Dead Can Dance, Ry Cooder, Guy Clark, Warren Zevon, Eric Taylor, Vince Bell, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Rick Dinsmore, Richard Dobson, The Weavers, Ian and Sylvia, Laurie Anderson, Lila Downs, Lydia Mendoza, Robert Johnson, Billie Holliday, Manu Chao, Tom Waits, Woody Guthrie, Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, Patsy Cline, Mose Allison, Jane Siberry, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, jazz, blues, folk, classical, basically I will listen to almost anything once. |
| Favorite books | The Book of Tea, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Thich Nhat Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness, Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions, Eduardo Galeano's The Book of Embraces, Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington's The House of Fear, Leonora Carrington's The Seventh Horse, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957 - 1987, the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Christina Peri Rossi's The Museum of Useless Efforts, Nick Bantock's The Museum at Purgatory, Curiousa, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, books by Italo Calvino, books by Umberto Eco, Green Eggs and Ham |