MFA FREE Art Spotlight for April '08: Michael Garfield

[Sol]

Dear Friend,

It's my pleasure and honor to introduce MFA on Zaadz's featured artist for April: Michael Garfield of Boulder, Colorado.

Michael holds degrees in Evolutionary Biology and Integral Theory and works as a songwriter (on guitar, ukulele, and Chapman Stick), live painter, essayist, sound man, and scientific illustrator–as well as community organizer for Zaadz Visionary Music.

His art and music are both contemplative cartographies–landmarks and legends of mystical experience–and field guides to the strange and beautiful life we encounter along the way. Bringing a biologist's sensibility to art, Michael's work in any medium is grown according to the rules of a unique mental genome–out of the rich ecology of the imagination–as an invitation to explore our infinite depths.

You can find streaming concert footage and links to free downloads of Michael's albums Get Used To Being Everything and Rare Bird on Common Ground here …

http://myspace.com/michaelgarfield

… as well as exclusive live tracks and “Sonnet A,” composed for Paul Lonely's Illuminated Suicide Dictionary (sdiexperience.com), the world's first integral multimedia sacred art collaboration, which can be downloaded for free from the myspace player itself.

Photographs of Michael's live paintings and various other doodles can be found in his portfolio online here:

http://s147.photobucket.com/albums/r290/michaelgarfield

All of Michael's essays on art, science and spirituality (usually all three at once)–as well as info about his Visionary Music community–are available at …

http://michaelgarfield.gaia.com

And if people want to put an ever-updated slideshow of Michael's paintings on their page for free, here's the html:

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<br><br><a href=”http://myspace.com/michaelgarfield“>The Visionary Art of Michael Garfield</a>

All of Michael's music is under creative commons license. If people want to remix it, they just need to let Michael know. (He might be able to give them the original masters). Michael also have an extensive loop library people are welcome to experiment with if they just email him on Gaia/Zaadz and ask.

Enjoy Michael's copious collection of free goodies! If you'd like to pursue your own MFA FREE Art Spotlight, please read the guidelines here. And as always, I invite you to consider spreading the good word about MFA by posting the linked banner below on your profiles, blog and/or website.

Artfully yours,

Sol
http://sol.gaia.com