Comments on: An Update on Make & Meaning

By: Lolly

Lolly — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:50:32 +0000

Great post! I've been thinking about how to make a mission with my creative loves…knitting, sewing, gardening. It seems all I ever get around to doing are the never-ending baby shower gifts… but that's something.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:36:02 +0000

I am SO sorry that it is gone. I wish I could go refer to it again and again.
I have ended my blog, and it's always a sad thing. I know there is only so much time...

Thanks for re-posting your articles for me.
xo
C

By: SisterDiane

SisterDiane — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:16:08 +0000

What a lovely project! I so agree with you – artists can do so much for their local communities,

By: SisterDiane

SisterDiane — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:14:46 +0000

Aw, thank you so much, Rachel!

By: Adrianne

Adrianne — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:15:30 +0000

Great post! I've been struggling with my regular job – and it's my own business! Adding more Mission to it would help I'm sure. Thank you for your efforts, blogs, podcasts and so on!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:06:44 +0000

I'm bummed that Make and Meaning is over but really happy that the informative and helpful posts will live on in the writer's blogs. I can't even imagine how much work it was with so many people involved. Kudos to everyone for all the time and energy that must have gone into Make and Meaning. I will remember it fondly!

By: Sweet Ronit

Sweet Ronit — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:55:08 +0000

Diane,

I love this post! I'm not only an artist and photographer, but I have a graduate degree in social work, and combining the two worlds has a been a mission of mine for a long time. Even a city like Portland has social ills -- though you'd never know it from reading any sort of media. One thing that I would like to see more of is artists contributing to their community directly -- inspiring another generation of artists who may be different with regards to race/ethnicity or socio-economic status. Here's a project I coordinated earlier in the year -- amazing local artists apak did a painting for the North Portland Health Clinic, and we celebrated with a party:

http://bit.ly/dn4AtY

Thanks for posting this!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:30:57 +0000

Yes, definitely great writers and wonderful human beings! I, too, am sad to see it end, but totally understand the time and money crunch. It was good while it lasted and we all learned from the experience. Thank you for your effort to spread such crafty awesomeness!

By: Daphne

Daphne — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:52:25 +0000

I am sad to hear Make and Meaning is ending. I enjoyed reading the posts.

By: SisterDiane

SisterDiane — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:40:27 +0000

I so agree – loved his Food Revolution series here in the US, too.

By: skuldintape

skuldintape — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:15:34 +0000

I love Jamie Oliver, and have admired him greatly since he started his Fifteen project. Every year he takes on fifteen disadvantaged youths – unemployed, homeless, recovering addicts – and trains them up, puts them to work in a restaurant with his name on it. While the fifteen are selected form a number of applicants, there's no guarantee that they're all going to stick it out, and it's all out of his own pocket. The story of the first 'fifteen' was televised and it was really compelling viewing. Jamie. What a guy.

By: SisterDiane

SisterDiane — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:53:35 +0000

Agreed, June. All I can say is that I learned a valuable lesson with this project: don't invest in a self-hosted blog until you're sure the project can continue long-term. The fact of the matter is, I'm not able to continue paying for hosting, and the work to transfer everything to a free site somewhere is just more than any of us has time for.

I'm sad to lose the comment discussion as well. I just hope new discussion will sprout on our individual blogs as the posts are re-posted.

By: June (planetjune)

June (planetjune) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:48:59 +0000

I'm just wondering why you chose to take the site down instead of archiving it – doesn't that mean that all that valuable comment conversation on the old posts has now been lost? That seems like a shame :(

By: SisterDiane

SisterDiane — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:03:15 +0000

Heh! No worries – you've summed up my feelings exactly! :-)

By: Elizabeth Drouillard

Elizabeth Drouillard — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:01:43 +0000

Boo. But understandable. Sorry I don't have anything more erudite to say. :)