Hi there! I'm off this morning to be artist in residence at Bay Path College in the beautiful countryside of western Massachusetts. The little car is jammed with art supplies—most for the young women I'll be working with and some for myself. I'm going to begin a new project there. I've been working so hard for the last six months on my next book, Making Art a Practice, that I haven't had much chance to make art. I'll have a studio to work in so very excited. And the doors wil

Grafitti looks much the same everywhere with a few variations where things look more planned. When we were in Barcelona last spring, we noticed how many doors had been covered in grafitti, including the door to our cheap hotel. Just folks wanting to make their presence known—a bit of life and lots of feeling. And for me, some inspiration—I see how this casual visual expression brings life to a city even when, sometimes, it feels intrusive, like a nuisance. Nothing is black an