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[heckyeahmisssaigon]

Broadway revival cast

Sam Strasfeld - The End of the World (Joseph Trefler & Jonathan Pearson)

[catrocketship]

Last Wednesday we take a field trip, me, Rachel, Jon, and Jasmyne. We visit Ames. We stop first at Little Woods. Kristin is doing great, the shop is busy, she recommends a turmeric tea for me. She shows us a Chinese tea service. “I like it because, like me, it is messy and informal.” 

We travel together out to Reliable Street, Lindsay’s new art space. A warm fire stove and a tire swing and so much flex space greet us. Over the summer, people worked there, but now it is cold. We tour the 100-year-old cement grain elevator. It gets scarier floor by floor. Pigeon feathers become pigeon bones, broken eggs, mummified rats and fledglings and adult pigeons ripped open. Every room has holes in the concrete floor. The stairs steel mesh, six flights straight up and down. On the roof, my brain is panicking so much I can’t look up to see the top of the cell tower. I have to hold the wall by the door, praying for everyone to be done and want to leave. I can’t look down as we travel the stairs. 

I eat almost an entire pizza at Great Plains. 

Rachel and I talk Social Club, new project ton the way home, go to her studio and get to work. 

[catrocketship]

My ‘bad boss who earned a bath’ face

I mailed two drawings to JPearson today

My therapist says I have life skills and that might be the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me.

I made a good sketch at lunch

Check out this poem by this dude named Algernon

(Taught third grade, read, painted, therapy, painted some more, did emails and planning)

ps I feel better about art

[whyartisimportant]

55th Day of 100 Days Of Why Art Is Important

“Art is important to me because it is a way to give form to thoughts and ideas that would otherwise stagnate in my subconscious. In creating artwork I can allow for an encounter with the depth of my being ness and understand myself more wholly. My studio practice reflects my thought world and the influence of the external world. In that balance I am communicating my universal being-ness with others, and inviting them into engaged creative action.”

-Jonathan Pearson, 12/10/15

100 Days Of Why Art Is Important is a public and social practice art project by person and artist Lucca Raventinkie.

[postkiwi]

A Vaccine For Violence

See A Vaccine For Violence PSA for Children in Danger @UNICEF_uk @DontPanicLDN @unit9 @MassiveMusicLDN #violencevaccine #endviolence

UNICEF UK is raising awareness of child-related violence across the world with “A Vaccine For Violence”, a commercial set in a pharmacy. A young child meets up with a GI Joe pharmacist who promises him a way to escape gang violence. It worked for Teddy. But will it work for him? A new report by UNICEF has found that every 5 minutes a child dies as a result of violence. Of this violence, 75% is…

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[catrocketship]

Art friends Rachel Buse, Jonathan Pearson, me. January, 2013 (or so)

[artbeacondsm]

Jonathan Pearson

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Jonathan Pearson is an artist living and working in Des Moines Iowa. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a BA in Art Studio with an emphasis in drawing. He has shown extensively in the Des Moines metro area. He currently works at 8/7 Central printing and designing t-shirts and posters. His work explores the emotive quality of the figure through a process oriented approach, specifically employing drawing, painting, silkscreen, sculpture, and photography. His work can be seen at www.pearsonfrontier.com

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