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Patterned & Printed Self-Portraits

Saturday, September 1, 2018 | Michael Van Meter

Recently, I decided to incorporate the art of adinkra cloth into my fourth-grade self-portrait lesson. As we began the unit of study, we looked at printmaking artists from Ghana, West Africa, who use ...

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"Hmm, Ginko Leaf or Toothbrush?"

Monday, August 27, 2018 | Karl Cole

I just got a crown on a tooth this week, so I thought I’d do a teeth-themed posting. Goodness knows I don’t love going to the dentist, but he’s a really good one, so I’m no lon ...

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A Lyrical August Gift: Tam Van Tran

Monday, August 20, 2018 | Karl Cole

I’m always wowed by color. And when I found out that the landscape-like backgrounds of this artist’s work are derived from pond scum powder (spirulina is the source, considered a healthy a ...

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Eye Candy for August: Louis Comfort Tiffany

Monday, August 13, 2018 | Karl Cole

I can’t think that anybody doesn’t find the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his designers to be absolutely beautiful specimens of glass art. Seeing some of his windows recently in Boston ...

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Artists with August Birthdays: Sakai Hōitsu and George Bellows

Monday, August 6, 2018 | Karl Cole

Monthly artists’ birthdays are a good way to introduce you to a variety of artists I actually adore, while contrasting art from vastly different cultures. I’m not going to call it “i ...

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Have You Had Your Fiber Today? Sheila Hicks

Monday, July 30, 2018 | Karl Cole

As you all know, I’m not a fan of the words “decorative arts,” “artisan,” “crafts,” or “craftsperson.” I think we’re way beyond that now. If ...

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Put on Your SPF 100 Sunblock: Alex Katz

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 | Karl Cole

Alex Katz’s birthday is today, the 24th of July. Happy Birthday to this extraordinary artist! I’ve come to be a great admirer of his work, and find it unfortunate that he is sometimes ...

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Hans Hofmann's Important Art Colony School

Monday, July 16, 2018 | Karl Cole

I will soon be on my way to Provincetown for vacation. Some of my favorite things to do with my husband in Provincetown are looking at the art in all the galleries and finding out where certain artist ...

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Wear a Protective Mask! Merete Larsen

Monday, July 9, 2018 | Karl Cole

My dear friend Matt was an engineering professor at a local university. You wonder why I start with that line? Well, that’s because he was also an artist in wood, as I mentioned in a previous po ...

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Happy July 2018: Edward Penfield

Monday, July 2, 2018 | Karl Cole

I want to wish everyone a happy July, even though it pains me when I think that the summer is half over, here in New England anyway. However, what better way to ignore that idea than to focus on art? ...

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Claude Raguet Hirst Realism

Monday, June 25, 2018 | Karl Cole

Nothing showcases the American obsession with realism in art during the 1800s better than the brief Trompe l’Oeil Realism movement of the 1880s and 1890s. Like the Dutch Baroque realist still-li ...

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Porcelain in the West

Monday, June 18, 2018 | Karl Cole

What do you think of when I say “porcelain”? “American” is probably not the first word that springs to mind when paired with “porcelain.” We all know that China dev ...

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American Impressionist Women: Fern Isabel Coppedge, Harriet Lumis, and Helen Hamilton

Monday, June 11, 2018 | Karl Cole

The joy of approaching summer always makes me think of color, and color makes me think of Impressionism—American Impressionism in this case. The Ten American Painters group was formed in 1898 by ...

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Illustrator Barbara Shermund

Monday, June 4, 2018 | Karl Cole

As we know, women have been artists since the beginning of recorded time. The dawn of women artists as a significant part of magazine, book, and newspaper illustration, however, came at the end of the ...

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National Textiles Month

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | Karl Cole

Although I’m an art historian, sometimes I feel that art should just be looked at rather than analyzed to death. When I read somewhere that May is National Textiles Month (May 3rd was National T ...

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Mobility Awareness Month: Kawasaki Kazuo and Rainer Küschall

Monday, May 21, 2018 | Karl Cole

By the early 21st century, it is certainly no longer questioned that industrial design and art have learned how to go hand-in-hand. I think we also agree that most creative efforts—from chefs to ...

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Patterned & Printed Self-Portraits

"Hmm, Ginko Leaf or Toothbrush?"

A Lyrical August Gift: Tam Van Tran

Eye Candy for August: Louis Comfort Tiffany

Artists with August Birthdays: Sakai Hōitsu and George Bellows

Have You Had Your Fiber Today? Sheila Hicks

Put on Your SPF 100 Sunblock: Alex Katz

Hans Hofmann's Important Art Colony School

Wear a Protective Mask! Merete Larsen

Happy July 2018: Edward Penfield

Claude Raguet Hirst Realism

Porcelain in the West

American Impressionist Women: Fern Isabel Coppedge, Harriet Lumis, and Helen Hamilton

Illustrator Barbara Shermund

National Textiles Month

Mobility Awareness Month: Kawasaki Kazuo and Rainer Küschall

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