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As pioneering woman artist Pat Adams (born 1928 US) once said to me, never trust an art historian who does not have a fine art background, or an artist who knows nothing about art history. Jayson ...
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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Cobonpue
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | Karl ColeKenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
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Yay! Winter is Here!
Monday, December 15, 2025 | Karl ColeWe already had our first and second snowfalls and they created a lovely, white landscape all over. Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons of the year, so you know I won’t be moving to Flo ...
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Artist Birthday: Paula Chamlee
Friday, December 12, 2025 | Karl ColePaula Chamlee is renowned for her series on a variety of different subjects from landscapes to factory interiors. Her series definitely rely on the repetition of simple forms that render her natur ...
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Editor's Letter: Mindfulness
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | Frank JuárezMindfulness is essential to our well-being. Whether we are walking through nature, turning off our phones, making a creative mess in the studio, and trusting our hand to make a mark on paper, we find ...
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Reading Faces
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | Kimberly OlsonTeaching, to me, is all about connections—connections to students, to standards, to school initiatives, and to the community. Making meaningful connections for students ensures engagement and, h ...
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Earth Art Installations
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | Jane E. DaltonWorking with nature is a lovely way for students to connect with the natural world. When mindfulness is included, students can use all their senses to cultivate experiential and creative learning. ...
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Artist Birthday: Sato Koichi
Wednesday, December 10, 2025Sato’s poster work shows just how fully Japanese graphic designers have absorbed Western modernist aesthetics and combined them with traditional Japanese sensibilities. Japanese poster art d ...
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Artist Birthday: Stephen Holl
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | Karl ColeStephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...
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Gem of the Month: Ergil Vallo, Ceramic Art
Monday, December 8, 2025 | Karl ColeA flourishing of ceramic arts is one of the historic traditions of the indigenous American cultures of the Southwest US. These cultures are collectively addressed as “Pueblo”, a refere ...
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Artist Birthday: Tim Hetherington
Friday, December 5, 2025 | Karl ColeTim Hetherington was a bold photojournalist who documented the war in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2008 in the Koragal Valley, where 70 per cent of American bombs were falling when he covered that ...
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Artist Birthday: Santiago Cárdenas
Thursday, December 4, 2025 | Karl ColeThe countries of Central and South America experienced a Renaissance of modernism in art, due in part to influences these artists derived from Europe and the United States, and more importantly, becau ...
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Artist Birthday: Nancy Rubins
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Karl ColeThrough sculptures assembled from discarded materials and graphite drawings that assume the appearance of liquid metal or crumpled steel, Nancy Rubins transforms quotidian objects into artworks that e ...
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Artist Birthday: William Wegman
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | Karl ColeWhile 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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