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Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music

2 Comments / Guest Posts, Musician Tips / Stan Stewart

Exploring effective strategies for overcoming addiction is pivotal for those committed to achieving sobriety. Art and music therapy are exceptional approaches, offering deep emotional catharsis, stress alleviation, and avenues for personal evolution. This guest post dives into the transformative potential of these therapies in supporting individuals through the complex journey of addiction recovery. Expressing the […]

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A painting shows two hands on a piano keyboard. This is the basis for the cover art for Stan Stewart's next piano album.

Cover art reveal for the next piano improv opus

4 Comments / Music, Poetry, and More / Stan Stewart

Cover art can be such a wonderful connection to the music “inside”. Stan Stewart presents Helene Brennan’s “piano hands”.

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Characters In a Story as Musical Inspiration

1 Comment / Music / Stan Stewart

Inspiration What inspires you? What makes you feel creative and want to “make stuff up”? Among my fans, one of the favorite albums of piano improvisations was inspired by the paintings of a single artist. “Painting Piano” is one of my best-selling albums and I chalk that up to the inspiration from Katrina Morse. No matter

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Hope Suite album cover is a big, beautiful pink bloom

Hope Suite and Hope Sweet

3 Comments / Creative Insights, Music / Stan Stewart

Hope is something that people need when circumstances are not the way we want them to be. If everything is going along perfectly, it’s unlikely that it will even be on our minds. We seek hope when we need reassurance or when fear has the upper hand. Obviously, when we do need it, we really need

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Patron Of The Arts

2 Comments / Music / Stan Stewart

Please click here read my updated views on Patreon. Patronage Everyone who becomes a patron is royalty. Everyone who receives patronage is an artist. Well, that’s an idyllic concept of “patron of the arts” anyway. Certainly, in my eyes, being a patron of the arts is a beautiful way to further beauty and creativity in

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River Moving Through You [video]

2 Comments / Music / Stan Stewart

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~ Rumi This is one of a series of video art collaborations I have created with Tracee Vetting Wolf. (Check out her video channel.) In most of them, she mesmerizes us with her paintbrush and the colors that swirl

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She Is Change – #art collaboration with @VettingWolf

4 Comments / Music / Stan Stewart

As you know if you’ve been reading this blog, I have found the art journal paintings of Tracee Vetting Wolf to be deeply inspiring. One of the results is that we’ve collaborated on a few videos. To be more precise, Tracee created the video. I took my inspiration into music and accompanied her brush and

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Life is Gorgeous (Gorges) – Listen and Learn

4 Comments / Poetry and More / Stan Stewart

Waiting for Life Like many people I know who often have creative ideas, I have been known to procrastinate. I’ve been collecting moving water moving pictures for many years.I had intended — in various degrees over many months — to turn them into an online video. Finally, a couple of months ago, I (at long last) pulled

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Is Just Fine (video)

1 Comment / Music, Poetry, and More / Stan Stewart

To bring in the new year, I’ll be presenting a series of videos that I’ve recently added on my YouTube channel. Please be sure to subscribe when you have a moment. This first video is one of several collaborations with artist, Tracee Vetting Wolf. I met Tracee while going through #quest2015 — a series of prompts and

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