Living Above the Fold

Guitarist David Sturdevant was nervous about his audience. They were tough. They were unforgiving. And they were five years old.

He was working for the first time as an artist-in-residence in Caren Nelson’s preschool class at Washington School last year. “I was apprehensive at first about working with such young children,” said Sturdevant, who also plays in the jazz and blues-style San Francisco Medicine Ball Band. “I thought they wouldn’t be interested in the music I do; I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep them involved. But it turned out they were very receptive to all sorts of music.”

Back Door Arts Programs (East Bay Express, August 17, 2005)

In this article, I followed a couple of “home stagers” to learn about a most interesting practice: making your home look like a model home to help sell it.  It’s not something that I would have thought of myself, but it actually seems to work!  My wife still remembers this article mainly for my description of those weird “moss ball” things. She still points them out to me everytime that we see them at the furniture store.

Setting the Stage for a Sale (East Bay Express, June 23, 2004)