Artist Birthday: William Wegman
While starting out with black and white photography of banal everyday actions, William Wegman is most likely best known for his endearing work with a series of dogs. His photographs of these dogs usua ...
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December is National Pear Month
Monday, December 1, 2025 | Karl ColeIn 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared December as “National Pear Month.” I did not realize that pears have as much potassium as bananas. And they are certainly interesting a ...
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Happy Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 | Karl ColeWhat is a more common symbol of Thanksgiving than a turkey? It’s an oft-quoted myth that Ben Franklin (1706-1790) wanted the American wild turkey as the bird for the national seal of the US. He ...
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Artist Birthday: Brook Reynolds
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | Karl ColePhotographer Brook Reynolds considers her photographs of aspects of Nature to be Enso photography. Enso photographs are inspired by the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and influenced by the tra ...
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Native American Heritage Month
Monday, November 24, 2025 | Karl ColeNational Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close. Since 1990, the US has celebrated National Native American Heritage Month in November to commemorate indigenous peoples’ s ...
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Artist Birthday: Paa Joe
Friday, November 21, 2025 | Karl ColeApprenticed to a coffin-maker at the age of 12, Paa Joe became one of the most honored Ghanaian coffin or abebuu adekai (“proverb boxes”) artists of his generation. ...
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Artist Birthday: Roberto González Goyri
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Karl ColeSculptor Roberto González Goyri is one of the artists who exemplifies the electric spirit of development of modernism in Central and South American countries during the middle of the 1900s. ...
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A Novembergruppe Artist: Otto Dix
Monday, November 17, 2025 | Karl ColeThe November Group (Novembergruppe) was a German group of radical, leftist-leaning artists, architects and designers who organized during the Weimar Republic after World War I (1914-1918). The group, ...
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Artist Birthday: William Trost Richards
Friday, November 14, 2025 | Karl ColeThere is nothing more remarkably peace-inducing than a beautiful seascape painting. William Trost Richards was renowned for his beautiful coastal seascapes of the New England coast in all sorts of ...
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Artist Birthday: Osuitok Ipeelee
Thursday, November 13, 2025 | Karl ColeThe native arts of the northern First Nations cultures of Canada have the same wide ranging types of art forms as those of the Indigenous cultures of the US. Osuitok Ipeelee participated in a Cana ...
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Artist Birthday: Édouard Vuillard
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Karl ColeÉdouard Vuillard was a pivotal artist in the transition from representational and abstract art. He was a member of the Nabis group of painters, "nabi" a Hebrew word for prophet, i ...
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The Week of Shichi-go-san: Kitagawa Utamaro
Monday, November 10, 2025 | Karl Cole“Rites of passage” refer to cultures all over the world in which certain birthdays are celebrated as stepping stones to a new period of life. A Japanese example is Shichi-go-san. The n ...
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Artist Birthday: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Friday, November 7, 2025 | Karl ColeVordemberge-Gildewart was a major figure in the Concrete Art that developed in Europe in many countries as a form of pure abstraction. It encompassed many individual movements, including Construct ...
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Editor's Letter: Transformation
Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Frank JuárezTransformation can happen at any time—when youʼre listening to an artist talk, attending an art opening, reading a book, watching a documentary, or talking to a colleague. Allowing ourselves the ...
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Sci-Fi/Steampunk Sculptures
Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Eric GibbonsWhen my high school got new laptops and Chromebooks for the students, a lot of the old technology was no longer needed. Rather than throw it all away, the school gave it to me for students to use in t ...
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Transformation
Thursday, November 6, 2025 | Trish KlenowArtists need to have thick skin. The week I wrote this article, I had received three rejections from galleries. Ouch. My colleague, a talented photographer and art teacher, received four during the sa ...
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