Mindmarrow is an arts and culture blog launched in 2012 by Catherine Haley Epstein, and a name which encompasses her art practice. The blog represents the vital space for slower thinking necessary in the vertigo of today’s “information” tsunami. The thoughts expressed here are a way of grounding, a way of questioning, and an attempt at brave thinking in the face of fast, bite-sized thoughts.

While the topics are mainly contemporary art and art practice, they are presented in a way that connects them less to the ‘Art’-specific world, but to the outside world of education, psychology, industry and community. What does it mean to think creatively everyday? How do we learn through art?  How can contemporary arts be a powerful tool for discourse and movement through challenges? How is contemporary art similar to ancient art? What does it mean to be an artist working professionally? Isn’t everyone an artist?

The thread pulling the blog together is the emphasis on art as a verb, and art as a tool in learning and communication. Here is sacred ground to ask the unquestioned, to explore the why not’s, and to uncover the simple and profound implications of art today whether the art is in the studio, a gallery, a museum, in a classroom or your kitchen sink.