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Artist Birthday: Christopher Wilmarth (1943-1987 US)

Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Karl COle

Christopher Wilmarth, in his tragically short life, was a Minimalist sculptor who created over 150 sculptures, most of them made of glass and steel.   ...

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Artist Birthday: Violet Oakley (1874-1961 US)

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Karl Cole

Violet Oakley is one of the standout women artists of the American Renaissance. She can truly be called a “Renaissance Woman,” being accomplished in many different media, and working as a ...

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Artist Birthday: Amanda Means (born 1950 US)

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

Just as artists in many different media have, in the 21st  century, discovered even more novel ways to use these media in personal expression, so too have photographers, who many decades ago aban ...

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June Drawing by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 France)

Monday, June 8, 2026 | Karl Cole

As an art historian, I tend to get a little giddy about details of works of art to which most people would not pay attention. Just as I got goosebumps when I saw the chisel marks in Michelangelo's (14 ...

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Artist Birthday: Jean Follett (1917-1991 US)

Friday, June 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

Like the Abstract Expressionists, many other American artists were inspired by European modernist movements that occurred before World War II. Jean Follett was an early abstractionist who was influenc ...

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National Great Outdoors Month: Art by Cheng Tsung Feng (born 1987 Taiwan)

Thursday, June 4, 2026 | Karl Cole

National Great Outdoors Month began as National Great Outdoors Week in 1998 in the US. In 2019 the US Senate created National Great Outdoors Month for June, to encourage people to enjoy the recreation ...

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Artist Birthday: Watanabe Kunio (born 1967 Japan)

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

Long before ceramic arts were recognized as fine art in the West, the art form was revered as a priceless national treasure in Japan. Contemporary artists like Kunio Watanabe continue to build on the ...

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Artist Birthday: Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448/1449-1494 Italy)

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

The Renaissance in 1400s Italy was a restatement of the styles of ancient Greece and Rome, a symptom of a more humanistic view of Christian religious figures in Renaissance painting. Many of the leadi ...

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Gem of the Month June: Art by Norman Foster (born 1935 Britain)

Monday, June 1, 2026 | Karl Cole

June 2 celebrates our Gem of the Month in London, and it also happens to be the birthday of the architect, Norman Foster. Foster’s designs greatly changed the skyline of London in the “mod ...

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National Older Americans Month: Art by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828 US)

Friday, May 29, 2026 | Karl Cole

Older Americans Month was started in 1963 by President Kennedy as “Senior Citizens Month” to celebrate the achievements of older Americans, while emphasizing healthy living and activity ch ...

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Artivism: Art and Advocacy

Thursday, May 28, 2026 | Christine Lakatos

To help my young artists understand the world around them, I introduce them to the idea of becoming “artivists”—people who use their art to make change. In my elementary art room, I ...

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Editor's Letter: Place

Thursday, May 28, 2026 | Frank Juárez

The idea of place can conjure a variety of meanings, interpretations, and responses. For me, the first image that comes to mind is a table. This inanimate object has deeper relevance because it provid ...

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A Cherry Blossom Tree Study: Kinesthetic Learning with Children and Parents

Thursday, May 28, 2026 | Aileen Pugliese Castro

Spring invites us to notice growth both indoors and out. In an Art with Mommy early childhood class (ages two to three), we observed the trees and flowers changing just beyond our classroom—espe ...

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National Hamburger Day: Art by Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022 US, born Sweden)

Thursday, May 28, 2026 | Karl Cole

National Hamburger day – origin unknown – has been celebrated since 2010 as a tribute to the beginning of summer. Who better to make fine art out of a hamburger than Pop artist Claes Olden ...

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Artist Birthday: Arturo Herrera (US, born 1959 Venezuela)

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, works on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. His work taps into the viewer’s unconscious—often inter ...

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Artist Birthday: Ashley Bickerton (1959-2022 US)

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

Ashley Bickerton’s work was symbolic of the late 1900s current in Neo-Geo movement in which surface and composition were secondary to the emphasis on documenting past attempts to order society w ...

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