Let’s raise another barn together!
When art started pouring in for Life is a Verb, I was knocked down by the love and generosity of all the people who contributed. Beautiful, gorgeous, meaningful art from around the world. My friend Mike Wagner said it was like watching a literary and artistic barn raising. It was magic. Here's a reminder of how that all happened. Now, my friends, it's time to create another work of art masquerading as a book.
Yesterday I signed a contract with Globe Pequot Press for another book, this one focused on how we can live more creative, artful lives--whether we consider ourselves artists or not (and whether we consider our lives a work of art, or not). Tentatively entitled Creative is a Verb, it will be out next summer. (Got good title ideas? Let me know! I thought Johnny is a Verb might be a good choice, but–oddly–I don't think the publisher will agree.)
This new book – like Life is a Verb – isn't to be illustrated only by those of you who already identify as artists, but also by kids and teachers and electricians and moms and bankers and Sufi mystics masquerading as computer technicians–and by those of us who shrink from saying "I'm a writer" or "I'm an artist." If you are alive, you are an artist. Your life? The canvas, the potter's wheel, the studio.
If you'd like to receive the "official call for art" that will be sent out in early September, let me know by filling out the form below. In the meantime, here's to making every single day a work of art (even the ones filled with travel or homework or laundry or children having fits because you have the audacity to ask them to sleep):
