![Story in Progress](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/notes-150x150.jpg)
This is a story I’ve been working on for years. I’ve told bits and pieces of it in various forms, and for a long time had the story end with the Wild Bill encounter. It never landed with audiences because…
![2014 Artist Residency at Elsewhere Museum](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mosaic3799b82cc5fac09aa95bee89e388425ddd67687b-150x150.jpg)
I was fortunate enough to have been chosen for a two week artist residency at Elsewhere, a living museum in Greensboro, NC. My friend Andy Sturdevant told me about Elsewhere – three stories of a former thrift store where artists…
![Banned for life](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-7.36.47-PM-150x150.png)
In September 2013, four days after I moved to Minneapolis, I put my name in the hat at The Moth StorySLAM in St. Paul. They pulled nine out of ten names and none of them were mine. Finally, the last…
![Going first at The Moth GrandSLAM](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-07-31-at-9.12.05-PM-150x150.png)
The piece of paper that I pulled out of The Moth bag had a squiggly number 1 and a sad face drawn on it. I suggested to the producers that drawing a smiley face might change people’s minds about going…
![The Moth GrandSLAM](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/10296173_679711295410470_5503322510856188206_o-150x150.jpg)
So one of my life goals has been achieved: telling a story in a Moth GrandSLAM. I qualified by winning a Twin Cities Moth story slam back in September. The theme is Fish out of Water, which is basically the…
![Let Me Count the Ways](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mosaic80afe5b247ca0eb03a81abff1e27edcd8d0331e1-150x150.jpg)
WOAH. Sometimes I need to take inventory of what’s up because it’s easy for me to feel like I’m not doing enough. Since I moved to Minneapolis, I’ve been constantly stimulated with writing and art and incredibly talented people. An…
![Watch me tell stories](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Williamsburg-150x150.jpg)
By Summer Pierre. February is a big one. I’ll be performing in three storytelling events. Saturday, February 15th: Cheap Theatre at the Black Forest Inn on the theme NOISE. 1 East 26th Street, Minneapolis, MN. 7:30pm. $10. Saturday, February 22nd:…
![Paper Arts](http://www.taylorgtower.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/7274611488_7e86d053bf-150x150.jpg)
I always liked drawing but never thought I was any good at it. I think a lot of kids have that moment when they become aware that there are people who are “good” at things and people who are…
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