When the End is Near: Creative Finishing
Jacqui’s chapter, When the End is Near: Creative Finishing, was recently published in the book The Coach’s Guide to Completing Creative Work, edited by Eric Maisel and Lynda Monk.
This book contains the work of many creativity coaches who offer a myriad of helpful ways to deal with finishing.
Special thanks to my son James Greiner who helped me to edit the chapter.
Here’s a link to purchase the book: Amazon.com : the coach's guide to completing creative work
A Practical Reference for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults
The book features Jacqui's artwork both on the cover and throughout the book.
More information can be found at https://www.lindagromkomd.com/books
This reference book draws from Dr. Gromko’s twenty-plus years of experience working with her transgender and gender-nonconforming patients. Physician and surgeon colleagues and Gromko’s clients weigh in to enrich this full reference.
Linda Gromko won the 2023 Gold Award of the Independent Book Publishers Association in the LGBT category for her book A Practical Reference for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults!! Congratulations, Linda.
“Dr. Gromko is an honest, clear, compassionate, respectful and responsible physician who understands transgender and gender-nonconforming people. With A Practical Reference, that is precisely what she delivers. It’s your own private house call—remarkably thorough and helpful. Share it with your doctor!”
Gender-Affirming Surgeries: Planning to Post-op for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults
The book features Jacqui's artwork both on the cover and throughout the book.
For more information and to order the book click here.
Adapted from the more comprehensive A Practical Reference for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults, this book guides the reader chronologically through the long, complicated, and often confusing surgery process.
GENDER PERSONAL: Exploring Gender Variance Through Art
Gender Personal explores and celebrates gender variance through art, poetry, and recorded interviews. Its vision is to increase awareness of the natural experience of gender variance and to foster understanding, leading to social change and acceptance.
To learn more about the project, visit the Gender Personal Website.
Jacqui’s article, A Creative Approach was published in The New Palette Magazine, Issue #66. This is a fantastic art magazine that focuses on how to make art.
To see photos of some of the paintings in this article, visit Jacqui’s blog.
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Jacqui’s article, Which came first, the painting or the meaning? was published in The Palette Magazine, Issue 58, June-July 2016. This is a fantastic art magazine that’s edited by Skip Lawrence and Christopher Schink.
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Where's My Book: A Guide for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth, Their Parents, & Everyone Else
by Linda Gromko, MD
The book features Jacqui's artwork both on the cover and throughout the book.
More information can be found at https://www.lindagromkomd.com/books
Linda Gromko MD is a Board Certified Family Physician who has worked with the transgender community for years. She explains the basics of gender identity, sexual orientation, puberty, puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and gender affirming surgeries. She shares years of her patients’ wisdom and practical information on getting through every day in the best way possible—from coming out to parents, to school issues, to coping with depression, to love and sex.
Linda Gromko won the 2016 Silvers Award of the Independent Book Publishers Association in the LGBT category for her book Where's MY Book? A Guide for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth, Their Parents, & Everyone Else!! Congratulations, Linda.
This book is also available through Amazon.
"Decorating the Ordinary" 16x20; acrylic & mixed media
"Crocodile King" 31x26; acrylic & mixed media
AcrylicWorks 2: The Best of Acrylic Painting
Available through Northlight Books and Amazon.com.
AcrylicWorks 2 includes Jacqui's painting Decorating the Ordinary, an abstracted piece about the beauty of simple and functional parts of life, and Crocodile King, part of a series of animal totem protectors, and representative of the fierce strength we need in our lives for ourselves and those who love us.
"Getting Started" 19x24; acrylic & mixed media
AcrylicWorks 3: Celebrating Texture
Available through Northlight Books and Amazon.com
"Painting for me is like a dance, an interactive process. I take the lead but also respond to what the painting tells me. For this painting I started without a plan, creating a ground of color and visual textures using colored pencils, watercolor crayons and scratching tools. Once I had a complex multilayered ground, I began to discover and create the figures and shapes by negative painting around them using a warm white. I added more texture by scribbling into the surface as I painted around the forms, keeping it from looking too flat and contrived.
"The painting Getting Started, one of my Animal Totem series, depicts the tortoise and the hare at the beginning of their race. It represents possibility. At this point we don't know what will happen but are fairly sure we can predict the outcome. I love the twist in this story where the obvious doesn't happen."
Jacqui's article "A Metaphor for Life," Artist's Magazine September 2007. Available through Northlight Books.