The workshop is a blast. We all pile into a large, comfortable van and head off to Northern Arizona. Our first night is in Flagstaff, then off to the reservation lands of the Navajo, Vermillion Cliffs, Marble Canyon, Kaibab Plateau and more. We spend an afternoon and...

This week the Project 52 PROS for 2014 are working on an CD album cover for a faux assignment. The music is George Crumb's "Black Angels" for Electric String Quartet. It is very challenging music. The students for this morning's Friday class really knocked it out of...

John Thomas Banta had over 200 ties. Most were bold, loud, occasionally whimsical and always hard-to-miss. In short, they were very much like him. He dressed for occasions, often wearing his wildly interesting ties. And he lit up the room with his presence. He was a...