I’m starting a feature (today!) called Artist of the Week.  And it will just be a short feature about incredible artists that are inspiring me lately – or just doing amazing things in general. 

I’m going to use the term artist somewhat broadly to include anyone from musicians to architects, but I suspect the bulk of the artists featured here will be of the more traditional (pen to paper) kind. 

So stay tuned for our first Artist of the Week – a young man I’ve talked about frequently before who has a new book coming out this week and who is quite frankly the perfect kickoff for this project, because he is absolutely the most renaissance artist I know in these modern days of ours.  A slam poet, a writer, an artist, and a musician.  I don’t know that there’s anything he can’t do.  And in this case I’m particularly lucky to also be able to call him friend…