Author: Gwoods

Wytold and Christylez talked to me about doing a music video for a collaborative piece they had performed in their shows. We talked about the creative approach and story. They had access to the mansion at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland, a truly awesome space. Wytold […]

These two gentlemen were the first creatives to visit the studio on Illinois Avenue when I decided to do The Angle in 2010. Another magical and out of the blue performance.

I think I checked out of high school a few months before graduation. Don’t get me wrong, I loved high school experience… the social aspects that is. After the Christmas break moving into 1990, I was ready to move on. I was ready for a […]

GARTH FRY: Garth Fry is a mixed media artist based in New Freedom, Pennsylvania whose work has been exhibited throughout the States. While a member at the Lee Arts Center, based in Arlington Virginia, Fry began combining serigraphy with watercolors on coffee stained paper. Employing […]

I was in a most southern part of Virginia, eight hours from home, in a sleepy prison camp that bordered North Carolina. Exercising my pencil to pass the time. Doing reflective pieces that often swung the lens around on either myself or the culture around […]

It’s always a pleasure to work with one of my favorite collaborators on earth, Christylez Bacon. When I was heavily working on my webseries/docuseries, The Angle, I had to do several impromptu pieces featuring his talents. He and Nistha had been working on a number […]

Found this sheet of random emotive sketches of Excel I did in 2004. More of the same wasting of time but doing something meaningful. I swear I won’t put all my random sketches on this blog/site thing. There’d be thousands of entries no one would […]

I can’t remember what book I read or what conversation spawned this triptych, but it happened. I wasn’t around during the Civil Rights Era but its reverberations were felt when i was a child (fist with the red background). I interpret it as serious, where […]

One of my favorite folks on this spherical rock we call earth is Clayton LeBouef. He’s not only an award winning and actor, he’s a playwright, screenwriter, historian, educator, mentor, archivist and humanitarian. I so enjoy the time we spend either talking on the phone […]

Maria Fenton is a playwright, entrepreneur, and artist. She is also the founding principal consultant of the creative works consulting firm, ArtLifeStyle. An experienced actress on the stage and in film, she has performed in productions in Boston, New York and The District of Columbia. […]