Jonathan reminisces about the early days of CELLspace at a brunch celebrating the art collective's 12th birthday. He quoted co-founder Paradox's words, "Dally on abstract spells no longer," while telling a story about how a group of puppeteers first got the lease for the warehouse while Tyson, of a much younger artist collective down the road, Million Fishes, listens in.

This is the drawing of the week for March 17-23, 2008.

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I brought some markers and sketchbooks to CELLspace's 10th anniversary party. It seemed only right, at a party celebrating this arts collective, to try and engage people in some creativity.

Joshua Short and Mable Negrete, who are both very inventive collaborative artists - I mean really, check out their websites and see all the cool projects they've done, graciously spent some time drawing their impressions of CELLspace.

I've got a neat stack of very varied visual responses which I will be incorporating into one painting on canvas of "Our CELLspace."

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Melissa Juan and Gabby Culver in the mixed media drawing class I taught at CELLspace.

This is the drawing of the week for November 20-26, 2005.

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Erica Gatts and Pierre Turpin work on their drawings in a mixed media drawing class at CELLspace. In the first class, we worked on still-life pencil drawings, then went in any direction with those drawings.

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Circus Contraption performs the "Grand American Traveling Dime Museum" at CELLspace in August of 2004.

The music of this one-ring circus is fantastic (the troupe built around the band), the stunts are dupefying, and the humor is ripe. And they're all wonderful people.

This image is not a great reproduction of the painting - I'll work on taking a better photo.

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An Appealling Selection

Dr. Loligo Calamari, aka Jason Williams, holds aloft Acrophelia, aka Evelyn Bittner, during a Circus Contraption performance at CELLspace.

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Darty Kangoo, aka Lara Paxton, twirls in the air during Circus Contraption performance at CELLspace.

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Each week there is a Tango Class and Tango dance at CELLspace. They always seem to have loads of fun.

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From a photo by Danielle Barnett, Mischief Photo, of one of the B-girls from the Sisterz of the Underground. The photo was left over from her exhibit at Lady Fest. She offered to donate any money from sales to the Sisterz of the Underground. I'll do the same.

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Erma, the CELLspace cat, jumped on my lap at 9:50pm in my gallery-studio.

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