Scott M WilliamsonApr 32 mincatching up with ourselvesHere are a few drafts of poems I've been working on, along with some favorite images... (Bermudas, for Alice and co.; acrylic and coffee...
Scott M WilliamsonFeb 193 minSemper dolens, semper Dowland..."Always, sad, always Dowland." Feb 20 is John Dowland's Yahrzeit (1563-1626). His melancholy Elizabethan-era lute songs are the OG...
Scott M WilliamsonDec 5, 20212 minMuseum Studies: Fashioning the Future...(Ruth E. Carter's special exhibit at the Taubman Museum of Art: "Afrofuturism in Costume Design") I'm having a blast teaching Museum...
Scott M WilliamsonOct 26, 202111 minA Gothic Romance: a Halloween recital(Schubert by Gustav Klimt) Here are the program contents, including notes and translations for the recital my Collective Euphonia...
Scott M WilliamsonOct 14, 20215 minClassical Halloween playlists...Whether you'd find a playlist like this on Spotify, I can't say. This one is from the History of Western Music curriculum. It's a curated...
Scott M WilliamsonSep 25, 20216 minMania and Medication, or "Raiding the symptoms"Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me. (An Unquiet Mind, p. 97) Kay Redfield Jamison is one...
Scott M WilliamsonSep 19, 20213 mindarkness awaits the new... (mental health memoirs, part 4)When depression and anxiety co-exist, and they take turns messing with your mind, it can be particularly challenging. These mixed...
Scott M WilliamsonSep 1, 20213 minArt for Life's SakeI've been sharing recently about my mental health journey. Below those posts you'll find one called "Renewal and Healing," which speaks...
Scott M WilliamsonAug 26, 20214 minStill Touched With Fire(I started calling this mental health awareness blog, Memoirs of My Madness. Not sure about that title now, but this is the next post.)...
Scott M WilliamsonAug 19, 20214 minHello darkness my old friendMemoirs of my very own madness, Part 2: Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend [*This is the second in a series of memoir-essays on mental...
Scott M WilliamsonAug 16, 20213 minMemoirs of my very own madness, Part 1Memoirs of my journeys with mental illness across the Commonwealth and beyond, beginning when I was not yet 14… The summer of 1985...
Scott M WilliamsonAug 15, 20213 minMemoirs of my very own madnessThis article by David Antrim affected me so powerfully when I read it last night, and so paralleled some of my own experiences (I wept...
Scott M WilliamsonJun 10, 20217 min"Artful practices for Well-Being"My title refers to a MoMA COVID-era "playlist" in a recent Artforum feature on a new book about the surrealist feminist artist: The...
Scott M WilliamsonMay 26, 20212 minRenewal and Healing: Music TherapyCheck out the announcement below for more on a special "Listening to Paintings"! Collective Euphonia presents: Listening to Paintings:...
Scott M WilliamsonDec 14, 20202 minCreative writing: the centoBelow is a draft of a new poem which honors a vital modern poet, one of the most difficult and urgent lyric voices of the 20th century....
Scott M WilliamsonNov 5, 202010 minDistant Immortal BelovedBelow are the notes on the recital I'll be sharing via WLU's Livestream, Saturday Nov 7 at 8 pm (ET). I hope you can tune in to this...
Scott M WilliamsonSep 7, 20204 minCreativity during Crisis: 1918-1920 (Part I)Like me, do you find yourself interested in how creatives responded to the global pandemic 100 years ago during the Spanish Flu of...
Scott M WilliamsonJun 10, 20201 minInternational Abolition DayAfter posting on FB about the presentation I shared in Romania this past December, I realized I hadn't shared its contents here, for...
Scott M WilliamsonApr 17, 20208 minPlaylists for Patrick...(Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable at the Taubman Museum of Art, in "Pop Power" one of his last exhibits.) Memorial Poems and a Mixtape for Patrick...
Scott M WilliamsonFeb 22, 20204 minThe “three-way game” of Art"Great art has dreadful manners." So begins Simon Schama's Art (Vintage). "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you... Merciless...