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Dear Kids, Find Authors Who Inspire You: Advice to our Youngest Writers
This is a reprint from an article from an interview I did for Child Art Magazine a magazine for young readers. Growing up in Shawnee,...
Polly Alice McCann
Jun 4, 2023


Kansas City Author launches first prayer book in series
Kansas City author and painter Polly Alice McCann launched her first prayer book, Pray Like A Woman, published by Light Shine Books, on...
Amy Buster
Aug 12, 2022


Legendary Pastel Painter Marcia Streepy's "Glorious Days" Retrospective and Benefit
"I enjoy the challenge of interpreting and preserving a moment in a certain atmosphere, whether it be a warm, cold, windy, rainy, or a...
Polly Alice McCann
Apr 29, 2021


Why I write for artists: The webs we weave...
People ask me why I write for artists? The artist's life is woven with 1000 threads and I think only another artist whose been through it...
Polly Alice McCann
Apr 21, 2021


Delight: Spreading Happiness Through Art: Reprint of Northlandia Magazine
reprinted from Northlandia Magazaine...Welcome to a Curated Art Experience Jan Jensen is an art rep or art agent. Her business is the...
Polly Alice McCann
Jan 8, 2020


NKC Ceramics Studio for Art Lovers: Reprint of article in Northlandia Magazine
Last month, I to talk with some great people yesterday Ken and McKenzie Stanley @driftwood_ceramics they are on Swift Street in North...
Polly Alice McCann
Jan 8, 2020


PAL Interview with SCBWI
Interview Questions for PAL Illustrator of the Month July 2019 POLLY ALICE MCCANN, author-illustrator, loves to put a whimsical world of...
Polly Alice McCann
Jul 4, 2019


Synchronicity: Finding Artistic Inspiration in Mentoring
Author Carolyn Griffith and Artist Polly Alice McCann share their conversation about how creatives interact for surprising inspiration...
Polly Alice McCann
Apr 2, 2019


Artist Interview at InterUrban
Original Interview with Polly Alice If you could create any title for what you do during most days, what would it be? Pushing the...
Polly Alice McCann
Nov 12, 2017


Find Your Own Revolution
It was so great to be at the winter Hamline Residency this year for a few days. I have my Master's in writing for children and young...
Polly Alice McCann
Mar 13, 2017


Questions & Black Coffee
Sometimes I feel like I'm in this strange twilight zone called the art world. Where nothing will ever be normal or as planned. Today I...
Polly Alice McCann
Jul 16, 2016


Firey Art, Hillbillies & Living Poetry
I have been a painter since I walked into the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art as a small girl holding the hand of my grandmother. I remember...
Polly Alice McCann
Jun 26, 2016


The subconscious kiss...
My first painting as a full time artistic the new studio. It's two by two feet, 4 inches deep and framed in a custom frame with a black...
Polly Alice McCann
Mar 7, 2016


Getting a Studio (2015)
Last night my ten-year-old-said, “Do you know what we like to talk about at lunch on Wednesdays? Politics.” What followed was a brief...
Polly Alice McCann
Jan 15, 2016
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