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There's another new feature on AMP, making it
easier - and possibly personally productive -
to get involved with AMP and its members. AMPers
for AMP is a place for AMP Members to
offer special benefits and services to each
other, such as preferred
e-newsletter poetry publication, directed
production of your own free podcast, and
discounts
on various services and products.
So here's 7 ways to get involved with AMP.
They're easy.
1. The Poetry Victims: AMPer Jeff Spahr-Summers makes it a point to feature AMPers as much as possible. E-publish your paintings, photography, and poetry. 2. Produce your own podcast with AMPer NedPR. You'll then have it online to link whenever, and with whatever, you choose - and really, it's easy. Didn't you ever want to have your own radio show? 3. Post your art on AMP, like these recent contributors. It's easy. 4. Upload your music to AMP, like the talented Brett Mikels (click the arrow to play). Also very easy. 5. Send designs for cards for world peace to AMPer Federico Hewson in Amsterdam, director of the Valentine Peace Project. 6. Find AMPers in your neighborhood - or somewhere you would like to go - and have coffee. Or tea. Or water. Whatever you like. Learn about their lives. Tell them about yours. Click here for a little inspiration. 7. Contribute to AMP's World Art Directory. The more you contribute, the faster it grows, and the better the resource we all have to share. Send in links for your favorite local, global, and virtual resources to pluginamp.com. |
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Featured AMP Member Michael Crowley - AMPer
aanji - found the AMP website several months
ago, when he was searching for old friend Richard
Bruland, who was also a Featured
Member on AMP. (Richard took the photo
at left when he and Michael were in the US
Navy in 1967.) After finding Richard in AMP,
Michael also joined, and has recently
been posting his exquisite photos, featured
throughout this newsletter. He also recently
became a featured
artist in AMPer Jeff Spahr-Summers' "The
Poetry Victims."
Michael says: "michael aanji crowley lives in a 120some year old farmhouse whose plumbing, wiring, walls and windows call out to him daily near West Branch, IA. I grew up not far from Lake Wobegone, and so it's not too surprising that I have only recently become comfortable with calling myself an artist (the neighbors would say I was taking on airs.) But then I didn't really have a definition of what ART was; I was one of the "I know what I like" kind of observers. I believe that art is finding the beauty that is - whether that beauty is external or internal, in the end, is immaterial. And, more and more I believe that everything is beautiful, or at least has beauty in it. I think the artist is just a very good listener - to the muse - to that little voice in his/her head saying stop the car now - get out and take that picture - put this paint there - rub that out - this shape is in that rock. I may be making assumptions for other artists, but I think some pictures demand to be taken, and when they do, I listen. Photography really grounds me and forces me to be present, so I won't miss those small quiet voices whispering "here, take me too." I think that being present, or really paying close attention to your surroundings is an absolute necessity to taking consistently good pictures. There is a dichotomy found in this situation. The same image that requires me to be actively present in order to capture will present the viewer with a tool to aid in the remembering of another time or place, or in the very least remove them from their present surroundings. Someone said that an image is first created by the artist and then recreated by the viewer. I hope you enjoy the opportunity to co-create my images." |
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A couple of weeks ago, I received a
fascinating email from Rome, Italy, from new
AMP member Cristina (pictured at left),
thanking me for
gathering the resources available on AMP, and
adding that "I really would like to be
collaborative and active in my part of the
world." Finally, Cristina asked - what about
AMP in Rome?
The best way to build an AMP presence in your community is to grow it yourself. Cristina is now promoting AMP in Italy by posting this announcement on arts websites and listservs, as well as sending it to her artist friends. The best way for AMP to grow is organically, from one artist to another - so pass on the invite, and login to AMP and say hi to Cristina! |
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Thanks for reading! There's more to come soon - stay tuned for upcoming developments!
all the best,
 Terri Anderson, Executive Director
AMP: Artists Meeting Place and Resource Collective
email:
pluginamp@gmail.com
web:
http://pluginamp.com
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