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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Creative Writer |
| Location | Greater Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | The healing part in me writes these days. Collaboration helps bring focus to my words: keeps me from listening to too many simultaneous voices. I like to hear other viewpoints. When positive, they help me feel like I live in a broader community. When negative, they stimulate me to reach around and study more. Responding entertains me. |
| Interests | Charlanne Kallay regards herself as a crafter of her life more than as an artist, writer or performer. Artistic expression has been a tool of emotional, physical and psychic healing. Recently there has been transcendence in her writing that contrasts with a tendency she continues to have to be pessimistic. Initially studying sculpture at the University of Minnesota under Tom Rose she switched her focus to theater arts because her figures needed animation. Having always wanted to write, she studied playwriting with Charles Nolte. She joined a small puppet theater, Pangolin Puppets, developed by Cheryl Bartholow with whom she collaborated, very successfully, for several years. She also performed stand-up comedy routines with a life-sized puppet, Viola d’Amore. In the spring of 1981 she graduated, under the name, Charlanne Karapetian, with a B.A. in Theater Arts With Puppetry And Playwriting Emphases at the U of M’s University Without Walls. “Probing myself to examine my intuitive responses to Donna’s work and getting the privilege of collaborating with her, officially, has been a great joy to me. Any viewer can have a special way of conversing with art. We would like to expand our opportunity together to include other contributors. Please visit the Providence Art Windows blog http://providenceartwindows.blogspot.com/ and link us to poems and prose you write in response to Donna’s work. |
| Favorite Movies | Too many |
| Favorite Music | Mostly classical, musicals, some Jazz - very oldies |
| Favorite Books | Whatever I'm reading now. |