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Art Me Up

Living a creative life as a father and brain injury survivor

Newsletter · By Justin Jude Carroll · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    I’m so happy with it (opens the original)

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    Hi Friends!Honestly, I’m so happy with how these paintings look. Sometimes chances come along to up your game. I wasn’t expecting the call to show my art at Morse Coffee — another artist dropped out, could I hang art in September? Yes! Except privately, I knew that gave me only two weeks to assemble a collection from whatever art I had available, frame it, wire it, print labels, the whole shebang. As some of you know, post-brain injury-me doesn’t do things, you know, quickly.But I got to work an

  2. Issue · Aug 14, 2026

    Making friends with work and money (opens the original)

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    I’m noticing a shift in my relationship to work lately.Like many of us, I’ve had a seemingly immovable wall between making art and marketing art. I often just can’t bring myself to market my works as commodities for sale, or to market myself and my story in order to connect with potential collectors. It was the same when I was a singer-songwriter; I’d rather hide than announce my work to the world; it just seemed wrong.Analyzing this breakdown between making art and making money has surprised me

  3. Issue · Aug 11, 2026

    I’ve been cutting things up again (opens the original)

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    Hi everyone,I’ve been making some new collage work lately, and I wanted to share it with you.The first group, which I’m calling Residuals, is a series of small works on panel, made from found scraps of paper and acrylic paint. I’m interested in the strange tension between intention and randomness in these pieces. I choose and arrange every element, but then I obscure parts of the paper intuitively. The result is something that f

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