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Artist Birthday: Théodore Géricault

Friday, September 26, 2025 | Karl Cole

Théodore Géricault was a leading proponent of Romanticism, based on his abiding appreciation of Baroque painting. He also rejected the strict canons of Neoclassicism. ...

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Artist Birthday: Francesco Borromini

Thursday, September 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

Francesco Borromini was one of a trio of Italian architects (along with Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) and Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)) who helped define the Italian Baroque style in architectu ...

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Artist Birthday: Moe Brooker

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Moe Brooker was one of several African American artists who championed a spiritual type of abstraction as an important contribution to contemporary African American and American art. ...

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Artist Birthday: Suzanne Valadon

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Karl Cole

Suzanne Valadon was a popular model for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. She was inspired by their work to teach herself drawing an painting and established herself as a successful pa ...

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Mayapán and Yaxchilán

Monday, September 22, 2025 | Karl Cole

Hispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great ancient civilizations of Mexico, Mesoamerica and South America ...

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Artist Birthday: Alvin Loving, Jr

Friday, September 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

Alvin Loving, Jr, was from the generation of African American artists who succeeded the Harlem Renaissance artists of the 1920s and 1930s. His generation struggled with questions of what subject m ...

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Editor's Letter: Student Voice and Choice

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Frank Juárez

Allowing students to shape their art experience is one of the best things we can do as educators. When students put themselves out there, things happen. Embracing their unique voices is one of the bes ...

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Art, Accessibility, and Visual Impairments

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Bette Naughton

Creating and responding to art is a visual experience. Understanding the impact that visual impairments have on a student’s ability to participate in making and engaging in art is vital. Visual ...

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The (mini) Artist's Studio

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Leigh Drake

Each year, I try to find fun and engaging ways to teach about famous artists, especially the ones students are particularly interested in. Most of my instruction takes a student-centered approach, whi ...

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Artist Birthday: Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Since the 1960s, Sylvia Plimack Mangold has developed a distinctive visual language that is grounded in figuration and transcends representation. Plimack Mangold has remained committed to an explo ...

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Artist Birthday: Albert Oehlen

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Albert Oehlen was part of a German artistic movement Junge Wilde (Young Wild ones) in the 1980s, the rebelled against the conformity of “modernism” in such movements as Minimalism, Con ...

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Ode to Autumn Pattern: Kawanishi Hide

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | Karl Cole

One of the traditions of Japanese art through the ages has been documenting the seasons and months of the year in art. My particular favorites are representations of autumn (it’s only a week awa ...

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Artist Birthday: Richard Hunt

Friday, September 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Born in Chicago, Richard Hunt became what is considered to have been the foremost abstract African American sculptor of the 20th century. ...

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Canadian Modernist Paul-Émile Borduas

Monday, September 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

In the past few years, I have become very fond of Canadian modernism, particularly from the early to mid-1900s. Paul-Émile Borduas was a pivotal figure in Canadian art. He bridged modernist ten ...

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Artist Birthday: William Bell

Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Karl Cole

The Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the earliest major wars that was extensively documented by the young art form of photography. William Bell started his career as a Daguerreotype photographer ...

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Artist Birthday: Martha Edelheit

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | Karl Cole

Martha Edelheit was active in the Women’s Art Movement of the late 1960s into the 1970s. She is known for her provocative, allegorical paintings of male and female figures, as well as for her in ...

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