2008 ART THEME: AMERICAN DREAM

And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.
– William Shakespeare, As You Like It

This year's art theme is about nationality, identity and the nature of patriotism. One species of the patriotic urge conflates the nation state with mass identity. Governments, as actors on a worldwide stage, become a surrogate for self, a vast projection of collective ego. And yet, there... read more

The buzz around the net is of a pagan woman from Myrtle Beach, SC who claims she is in a witch trial. Although I have read many different views on the case, the questions that I had formed while looking around were answered when I saw this blog elsewhere on tribe. What alot of people in today's society need to realize is, just because another reader writes something about a topic that they are not involved in, doesn't make their opinion truth. This blog sheds light on a new viewpoint in the... read more