{"id":33304,"date":"2019-02-22T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33304"},"modified":"2019-02-21T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:51:11","slug":"ben-skinner-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/ben-skinner-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ben skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33305\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/benskinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/benskinner.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/benskinner-148x1024.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh,\u00a0Vancouver based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/benskinner.com\/\">Ben Skinner<\/a>. One of my favorite artists, <em>ever.<\/em> In fact, on February 22, 2009, I wrote my first post on The Jealous Curator and, yes, it was about Ben. Well, here we are TEN YEARS LATER <em>(!?)<\/em>, so I thought it was only fitting to write about him again. He&#8217;s the king of materials, and his brain is filled with the most wonderful words&#8230; and the manipulation of those words. &#8220;ALL OF MY HEROES ARE WOMEN&#8221; is a stunning infinity mirror piece Ben created for a show I curated <em>(in honor of Gord Downey, the lead singer \/ songwriter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehip.com\/\">The Tragically Hip<\/a>)<\/em> in the summer of 2017.\u00a0For obvious reasons, I love this piece more than I can explain.<\/p>\n<p>So, ten years. Thank you for coming on this decade-long ride with me! When I wrote that first post <em>(while my two year old was napping)<\/em>, I never could&#8217;ve predicted what this site would grow into. Books, a podcast, workshops, etc &#8211; yes &#8211; but more importantly, all of you. All I ever wanted was a community of like-minded people who &#8220;got&#8221; what it was like to be an artist &#8211; the blocks, the golden zone, the thrill of walking into an art supply store, the frustration of rejection, the pure joy that comes from creating something that wouldn&#8217;t have existed without you. Because of this journey, I&#8217;ve made lifelong friends, <em>and<\/em> I&#8217;m making art again&#8230; and actually showing it to people! I&#8217;ve never been happier as an artist than I am at this moment, and that has so much to do with you. Thank you. Here&#8217;s to many more years of creative adventures! ~ Danielle xo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh,\u00a0Vancouver based artist Ben Skinner. One of my favorite artists, ever. In fact, on February 22, 2009, I wrote my first post on The Jealous Curator and, yes, it was about Ben. Well, here we are TEN YEARS LATER (!?), so I thought it was only fitting to write about him again. He&#8217;s the king [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,285,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33321,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304\/revisions\/33321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}