Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Ideas come through us, not from us.
Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Imagination needs to be fed.
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Barbara Januszkiewicz: Biography and Life Work
Barbara Januszkiewicz was a notable Washington.
Barbara Januszkiewicz is a Washington, D.C. –based American multimedia artist, creative activist, and teacher known for her stained neo- Color field abstract expressionism paintings. She works in water-based media, specifically watercolor and diluted acrylic paint on unprepared canvas in the manner of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler .
Philosophical Views and Reflections
In 1997, Januszkiewicz began doing research on the Washington Color School by interviewing Hilda Thorpe . The interview was printed in the Washington Review Newspaper Volume XXV1 No.1 June/July 2000, and broadcast on Public Access TV stations as part of a Creative Vision for the Arts around the Metropolitan DC area. It is now archived on You Tube.
In 2025, her work was showcased at the American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center as part of the "Women Artists of the DMV" exhibition curated by F. Lennox Campello .
