Linda Carson makes art

Linda here. Am I famous yet? Got a B.Math. Got a B.A.. Got an M.F.A. and got out. Got sucked back in for some post-grad work. Got out again. Art is the stuff you make after you stop making the stuff your teachers tell you to make. Now I teach. Yeah, I know irony when I hear it, too.

I'm deep into drawing. I'm obsessed with sticking stuff together. I'm studying science in my abundant spare time, and that's my grad photo after earning my Master's degree in Science (Kinesiology) in 2004, researching drawing expertise. (There was a second version of the picture without the crayons, in case I ever run for office.) I have a full life and yet I'm also committed to an exciting new enrichment program, Waterloo Unlimited, that I'm helping to invent at the University of Waterloo.

I work and teach at the big black pig studio, located above McPhail's bicycle shop and next door to the Harmony Lunch at 98 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario [Canada] N2J 2X4, telephone 519-884-7355. E-mail linda@bigblackpig.com (that's Linda, the person behind the pig).

Start now

I made my first painting in 1972. Thanks to either my packrat habits or my mother's foresight, I still have it. Start now. Painting, piano, karate, reading Jane Austen. Whatever it is that you wish you could do (but fear would take a decade to finish or get good at), start it now. It doesn't have to be your best painting, just your first painting.