Some of you may not know that I have dabbled in the visual arts for fun.  Yeah…I have some paintings, drawings, inventions and photos that have actually attracted some international attention.  Why?  Not sure.   Most of it is extremely childlike. (I guess blame it on the CHRONIC CREATIVITY? ) Take a look at this chicken scratch drawing [...]

Today I had a random memory.   I have no idea what triggered it.  After all, it wasn’t a windy day.  Oh yes, I was thinking about this whole notion of social networking.  And I had this little memory hit me today.  Yes boys and girl…… it happened before the days of the “interwebs”……… It was a [...]

I spent quite a bit of time thinking about jazz tonight….what it is, why it appeals to me so much, favorite jazz perfomers, etc…and came up with a darn good definition for jazz on my facebook wall: ” Definition of JAZZ:  intentional, improvisational, expressionistly independent, intuitive, syncopated chaos defying gravity. It’s the musical rebellion that leads [...]

Based on the book, “COLORS OF THE SPIRIT….The Creative Process of Turning You Into a Work of Art” (c) Angela K. Mack 2000 “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.  And when his brothers saw [...]

An excerpt from “COLORS OF THE SPIRIT…The Creative Process of Turning You Into a Work of Art” (c) Angela K. Mack 2000 (Based on the breastplate mentioned in the Bible Exod 28:15-29) Aaron’s breastplate  hint’s about God the artist and creator.  God did not sloppily throw together just any stones on the breastplate.  He specifically [...]

(c) February 2010 Angela K. Mack It was Gallery Night in the Third Ward of Milwaukee.   We went into the Artasia Gallery.  Tucked away in the back of the store there must have been hundreds of wooden and cloth asian puppets lying in a heap on a table.  I was totally mesmerized. I sat and stared [...]

Written by Angela Mack   (c) 2004 The time period between 1918 and 1929 contained an explosion of African American immigration, literary and artistic expression in Harlem, NY.(c) Angela Mack 2004    The Harlem Renaissance, also known as “The Negro Movement” was the time period between 1918 and 1929 in which there was an explosion of African [...]

  Harlem Renaissance writer, LANGSTON HUGHES “The Weary Blues” From the Eyes of a Musician (c) Angela K. Mack 2/05     Langston Hughes is a fascinating African American writer who has written many poetry books such as The Weary Blues, Fire Clothes to the Jew, Shakespeare in Harlem, Montage of a Dream Deferred, and Ask [...]

“When Angela Mack first approached me in late 2004 with her Chronic Creativity excerpts, I found her ingenious way of describing the condition Chronic Creativity in diagnostic terms metaphorically apt. It didn’t take long into reading about the first symptom, Claustrophobia, that I realized Angela possessed a perspective on “being perpetually creative” that I identified [...]

The “ROOT” of the matter December 28th, 2007 (c) angmack When I was a young child, my favorite thing to say was “why”? I have this insatiable curiousity at all times. I have such a hunger to learn. So much so that I can’t stand reading fiction. I hate watching TV. My motto has been, [...]