When visiting www.votasmeets.com, you’ll find my artistic statement detailing why I made the collection, Aorta Transformata. I wholeheartedly invite you to visit, as it describes why I made the art that depicts the journey of the healing heart in vividly raw, yet beautifully human emotion. Everything I’ve created, … [Read more...]
Feb
14
Contestant #10 Stan Pope
Written by Stan Pope I'm pleased to enter this contest; I feel something like this to find talent based on the quality of the artist, as opposed to how young or cute they are, is really needed in these times. In my case I wish to have your group consider this. I personally know of no other Artist that has produced music of this … [Read more...]
Feb
10
Contestant #9 Christopher M. Simondet
Tough Times, High Hopes Written By: Christopher M. Simondet Decisions are made every day for better and for worse. Throughout my life I have seen decisions that others have made and I have learned from them. I realized that every decision made has a ripple. The size of that ripple depends on the decision to be made. I had also … [Read more...]
Feb
09
Contestant #8 Rita Milios
Dream Share written by Rita Milios Share a Book…Share a Dream Like most artists, I suspect, I have a unique relationship with the “offspring†produced through my creative endeavors (in my case, books). Each one is an expression of the deepest part of me and each brings forth into the world by its very existence a … [Read more...]
Jan
30
Contestant #7 Ann Rea
© Ann Rea. All rights reserved and enforced. Absolutely no reproduction of any kind permitted. my story For seven years I didn't paint or draw anything. I worked at a variety of anxiety producing corporate jobs until I meet two stage-four breast cancer survivors. I realized then that life is too short to avoid pursuing my dream. It … [Read more...]
Jan
24
Contestant #6 Amy Wachspress
The Evolution of One Entrepreneurial Artist written by Amy Wachspress © 2009 Amy Wachspress I have been a writer for as long as I can remember. I spent years trying to get a publisher to discover me, until the day that I got wise. I researched self-publication and the world of independent publishing opened up before me like a door … [Read more...]
Jan
23
Contestant #5 Tamera Bourne
My Life, My Passion, My Dream written by Tamera Bourne When I first read The Diary of Anne Frank I knew I wanted to write. I was eleven. I started keeping a diary and have not stopped. Her raw honesty about her growing pains gave me comfort in my own struggles. My thinking, at the time, was I could be the next Anne Frank, I could be … [Read more...]
