J.A. in The Artist’s Journal

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In 2012, J.A. participated in The Sketchbook Project. Well, this year, his #sketchbook will be at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, NY. +The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artists’ sketchbooks. The entire library, of close to 30,000 original works, has been built one book at a time, by people of all ages…
J. A. cuts and pastes and glances at the kids, who are watching him. He gives them minimal instructions on how to create a collage and lets them go with the flow. He cuts, he pastes. They cut, they paste. He is a patient teacher. The kids are his nephews, ages 11 and 7, who’ve…
Filipino Canadian Neurodivergent Artist J.A. Tan holds an art exhibit featuring his latest landscape paintings at Melo Patisserie, a popular cafe in the hip and cool neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant in Vancouver, BC. A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST I have always loved nature. Wherever and whenever I am able to go to a place surrounded…
“All Without Words” is the musical journey of a parent raising a non-verbal child with autism. The theme on which eleven trumpet jazz-concerto variations are based is built around the spontaneous singing of the composer’s son—it is the actual voice of the child, set as a melody and played by the trumpet, accompanied by an…
The Art of J.A. Tan is featured in the October-November 2015 issue of The Autism File, a bi-monthly magazine dealing with all aspects of autism. The article was written by Debra Muzikar, author of the book, “The Art of Autism: Shifting Perceptions.” Click here to read the magazine. Excerpt: “Using art to show how his…
In the world of wine, labels are not only a way to identify a particular bottle, but they also convey the winemaker’s story and the philosophy behind their wines. The story behind Italian winemaker Monteocorneo 570’s Albe wine goes all the way to the Philippines! That’s right for their newly-released Greccheto Passito dessert wine, they…