by Roberta Hoffman | May 3, 2024 | News
Above Artwork: Earth Temple, Mixed Media Assemblage, August 1991, by Lawrence F. Pevec Spring Gathering Art Exhibition Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel You are invited to show your work in the National Spring Gathering Art Exhibition to be installed at the Sheraton...
by Roberta Hoffman | Mar 1, 2024 | News
On November 4, 2023, Rasjad Hopkins, a multifaceted artist, father, and Subud Helper whose creative legacy endures, left this world. As a commemoration of the 100th day since my father’s passing, this tribute offers a concise overview of the diverse array of...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 19, 2024 | Poetry & Literature
No boulders block the way and the words find their way to Source, to the sea from which her life emerged. “Swimming in Stories: The River of my Life” begins with her parents’ stories, each immigrating before they knew each other to South Africa to escape the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Poetry & Literature
It was approximately three years later that by mutual decision, my parents and I decided I should go to boarding school. I would only return on holiday breaks, as would my brother, who also attended boarding school. I was thirteen, growing close to fourteen, and had...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 6, 2024 | Poetry & Literature
The apartment building I grew up in was on East 57th Street near York Avenue in fashionable Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York City. There were a number of noteworthy individuals who lived in the building, one of whom was the renowned fashion designer Bill Blass. Mr....