Finding Focus in Making Art with Sas Colby and Mag Dimond
It was such a pleasure to have Sas Colby as my guest in the Bowing to Elephants Podcast!
Sas Colby is a visual artist with over 5 decades of creating, exhibiting, and teaching experience. Sas has lived in Berkeley since 1975. Her artistic practice has included textile art, collage, photography, and artists books - with words interlaced throughout.
A member of the Bay Area Women Artists Legacy Project, Colby attended Rhode Island School of Design. Sas has had her work included in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In this episode, we talked about:
Her relationship between making art and bringing about social change in the world
A Line Drawing Exercise which is a form of meditation.
Our thoughts on situations where artists are not willing to share the ideas/visions behind their work.
Why Fear is about the future and not the present.
How creating art through a symbolic rabbit helped Sas in a trying moment of her life.
Her advice to students who are aspiring to make art.
What she wants people to remember her for in terms of what she’s accomplished in her career.
Get to know more about Sas Colby, her works and her life in the full Bowing to Elephants Podcast episode which you can listen to here.
Enjoy the show and let me know what you think!
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My eternal thanks and deepest gratitude to you all!
Mag
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