Creative Living, Creative Works - Angela M. Counts

The legacy of the 1960s and the broken bonds of a multiracial family… Flower Child ©  Angela M. Counts, 2013. Video Production Still.  Pictured: Dell Hamilton and Susan Lloyd McGarry. In the late 1990s, Angela Counts was a Van Lier Playwriting Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop in New York City. She was commissioned to write a new play, and thus began the journey of Flower Child .  Written during boom economic times, the play questioned the collapse of “The American Dream”, the legacy of the 1960s, and the broken bonds of a multiracial family.  In 2012, Angela   rediscovered  Flower Child and began filming rehearsals of her play and rediscovering the sources of its inspiration. In spite of her efforts to reconstruct the play she is drawn into an examination of herself.  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Alfond Auditorium December 5 @ 12:30 pm  December 9 @ 12:30 pm 465 Huntington Avenue,  Boston, MA 02115 (617) 267-9300,  www.mfa.org Free tickete

Dear Readers, I've been away but not idle... I've been creating but not posting so much, so I've wanted to update you on a major project I'm working on, and I hope you will follow me as I continue my journey as an artist -- from poetry, performance, and plays to film and video and back again! The project that has taken so much of my time is called Flower Child...  In 2008, as some of you know I made a visit to Italy for a reunion with my father whom I hadn’t seen in 17 years. I brought along a camera and an artist sketchbook and began a journey into a multi-media way of expressing the complications of identity, family history, and language. I also started this blog in earnest after a second trip to Italy in 2009 by myself. The reunion with my father and the processing of trying to express it all through images, text, and sound led me to the post-Bacc program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the fall of 2010.  The following year I enrolled in the MFA S