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• Author & Project Manager:
  Laura Eklund
  
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PROJECT STATUS: This book has been proposed as a project and is now seeking team members. Using the links at left, apply to join the team and help make this book happen.

I propose to write a multi-genre book that includes journal entries, poems about art, prose poems that all tie around the artistic process of painting and being a visual artist.

I have already written most of the book, I just need to assemble it, which is what I am doing now. The only thing I haven't completed for the book is essays on the process of painting (but I am working on it now), to be included as a "forward" in the book.

What is unique is I am a published poet and an established painter that is represented in a gallery, and I am also a professor who teaches art history. What makes this powerful is I am going to be expressive about painting as an artist but can also tap into other resources as poet and professor.

The purpose is the explore the process of painting-from the inside out, not as the voice of an art critic or scholar, but in a kind of synthesis, a synthetic voice that is aware of itself as poet, teacher, and painter. To do this-the way I am going to structure the book is to have a varied modality.

To realize this approach I have creative renderings to the process that are expressive of the process. Therefore, in a way abstracted or figurative modes of writing which attempt to express and define or even map out the inductive and intuitive process with paint and brush at the easel. With the journal entries I allow myself a more cognitive and reflective approach and a more expository yet highly reflective approach to the search and exploration.

This book will also include several essays about this process, because in a way, the essay is a “trying out.”

This is a very exciting project and a fully realized one, that I wander if its even been done before. Sure, I have read many artists’ journals. What is more interesting than getting inside the mind of an artist? Not much, in my opinion. I have already gotten a book designer for my project, and am also good at marketing my work.

I already have a strong base for an audience and that comes through exposure I have on the east coast, from my website and my weekly blog. The website, my published book, and my galleries will find my book very interesting. I imagine this book may be interesting and marketable to a professor who teaches studio art. I am in a consistent effort to expand my own audience, and I am good at the marketing end. I think this press is just perfect for me, because I want to be involved in getting my book out there.

I do want to say I am involved with art professionals at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who will likely to an interest in my book. I know my colleagues and my galleries will take an interest in this. I think this has book has great potential. I have a website www.lauraeklund.com I get many hits every day, at least 10. I can sell my book off my website as well.