Jessica Damen Fine Artist

07/29/2025

https://tricycle.org/article/joanna-macy-bardo/

We have to accept the reality that climate change is already here and learn to live in our new world—a world on fire.

07/26/2025

I am enjoying this summer diversion.

07/18/2025

Have a good schadenfreude read.

Trump Panics Over WSJ Leak. It's Going To Get Worse!

07/18/2025

Yesterday my husband and I demonstrated our support for democracy, decency and our US Constitution at Rangeley ME’s “Make Good Trouble” protest. This northwestern ME town PROTEST was just one of more than 1600 peaceful ones yesterday throughout the country Let the courageous memory of Representative John Lewis continue to motivate us to stop TRUMP’s and MAGAt onward march toward facism. Let’s “Make Good Trouble” instead.

07/03/2025

Once again the renegade Trump/MAGA administration has held back the already Congress allocated monies DOE. This is illegal and the complicit GOP IS JUST AS GUILTY. This is for summer programs AND After School Programs. So once again the Neanderthal TRUMP MAGA IS REALLY “Make America Stupid and Permanently Poor Again.”

The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services.

04/28/2025

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April 27, 2025
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C. It’s called “Executive Branch,” and it’s an invitation-only club backed by Donald Trump Jr. and megadonor Omeed Malik. Dasha Burns of Politico reported that it costs more than half a million dollars to join. The exclusive club is designed to allow top business executives to talk privately with Trump advisors and cabinet members. Burns reports that the club already has a waiting list.

When then-candidate Donald Trump celebrated the administration of President William McKinley, it was always clear he saw it as the triumphant marriage of the very rich to the U.S. government. It was the era of so-called robber barons, industrialists and financiers who flooded political campaigns with money to convince voters that those trying to rein them in were socialists or anarchists, then called upon the politicians they put into power to pass laws that benefited their businesses.

“Behind every one of half the portly well-dressed members of the Senate can be seen the outlines of some corporation interested in getting or preventing legislation,” the Chicago Tribune wrote in 1884, “or of some syndicate that has invaluable contracts or patents to defend or push.” Last Sunday a new filing with the Federal Election Commission revealed that donors delivered an astounding $239 million for Trump’s inauguration. Theodore Schleifer of the New York Times notes that Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee raised $107 million. The $346 million raised by Trump’s two inaugural committees is more than the monies raised by all other inaugural committees since Richard Nixon’s committee raised $4 million in 1973. While Trump’s allies have said the money that wasn’t spent on festivities will go to other projects Trump is behind, including his presidential library, there is no oversight on how Trump uses that money.

Spending on the election was even more dramatic. Earlier this month, Americans for Tax Fairness analyzed spending in 2024 and discovered that just 100 billionaire families donated a record-breaking $2.6 billion to federal campaigns, up by 160 times from billionaire spending in elections before the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. Seventy percent of that money went to Republican candidates or causes. In the three races that determined control of the Senate—Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—outside money from billionaires made up 58.1%, 56.8%, and 44.5% of the outside money coming in. Elon Musk donated about $290 million, giving four times as much money to political campaigns in 2024 as he paid in income taxes between 2013 and 2018.

03/07/2025

My last three paintings, 0il on canvas 13 x 113” I imagine my grandchildren skating, dancing, flipping, climbing, scooting, playing baseball and fishing amongst the Chinese dragon. Symbol of good fortune I wish for them to have a future without climate calamity. With Trump president their futures are even more precarious.

03/01/2025

This is my art page. I am interested in fine art and nature and how it relates to beauty and climate change. I am Not interested in craft and so many other irrevelent stuff. Maybe if i spell it out FB will get it right.
I am preparing for new work. The two lower paintings are drying before they are stretched. It is always exciting for me to do the research for new paintings.

02/19/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/196QCxSh1Q/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I’m looking forward to presenting to the webinar audience how hearing Maj Ragain’s poem opened my eyes.

Reminder for the online meeting with Jessica Damen tomorrow at 7 pm. This online event will kick-off "The Art of Seeing: Reflections on Art through Poetry," a creative collaboration between Kent State University's School of Art Collection & Galleries & the Wick Poetry Center.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8JJsUiWbSO2XHCxmYTZrnQ?_ics=1738789240958&irclickid=~b5WQMUSIKOUPQJPFDELRIzAvuzEFwDuzsvlqrhig~87ZPOMJHAxn&_gl=1*nu5kme*_gcl_au*MjA3NDg3MzUzMC4xNzM4MzM4MDI4*_ga*MTQzNTcyNDQ0OS4xNzM4MzQ2NTEw*_ga_L8TBF28DDX*MTczODc4OTEzMy42LjEuMTczODc4OTI0Mi4wLjAuMA.. #/registration

02/15/2025

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Baltimore painter Jessica Damen will give an artist talk discussing her nearly twenty-year collaboration with poet and Kent State professor Maj Ragain and their mutually-inspiring working relationship. Damen will show slides of her paintings and the ekphrastic poems Ragain wrote in response to them.

This online event will kick-off "The Art of Seeing:
Reflections on Art through Poetry," a creative collaboration between Kent State University's School of Art Collection & Galleries & the Wick Poetry Center.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registerWN_8JJsUiWbSO2XHCxmYTZrnQ_ics=1738789240958&irclickid=~b5WQMUSIKOUPJPFDELRIzAvuZEFwDuzsvlqrhig~87ZPOMJHAxn&_gl=1*nu5kme*_gcl_au*MjA3NDg3MzUzMC4xNzM4MzM4MDI4*_ga*MTQZNTcyNDQ0OS4xNzM4MzQ2NTEw*_ga_L8TBF28DDX*MTczODc40TEzMy42LjEuMTczODc40TI0Mi4WLjAuMA.. #/registration