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Spring is Almost Here...Really

Monday, March 16, 2026 | Karl Cole

I have not shown a Childe Hassam (1859-1935 US) since around 2012, and I am such a big fan of his painting, I could not resist celebrating the coming of spring (on 20 March) with this spring green of ...

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Artist Birthday for 13 March: Maximilien Luce (1858-1941 France)

Friday, March 13, 2026 | Karl Cole

Maximilien Luce was an Post-Impressionist/Neo-Impressionist painter who most likely was the most dedicated to the Pointillist technique of broken color. After about 1920 he adopted a less strict Point ...

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Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | Karl Cole

Although in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...

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This Day in History 11 March, 1895: Boston Public Library

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | Karl Cole

On this date, the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library was opened to the public. Called by the city the “palace of the people”, the library was the first public building in the Beau ...

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March is Women's History Month

Monday, March 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

There was a period in the early 1900s, before World War I (1914-1918) when many American artists looked to European painting for inspiration and modern modes of expression, including abstraction. Even ...

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Artist Birthday: Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878 US)

Friday, March 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Anna Claypoole Peale was a member of the first established “dynasty” of American painters that started with Charles Willson (1741-1827) and James (1749-1831) Peale of Philadelphia. The las ...

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Artist Birthday: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770 Italy)

Thursday, March 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was a Venetian Rococo/Late Baroque painter who reinvigorated Venetian painting. He was most renowned in his time for his ambitious frescoes with which he decorated churches a ...

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Editor's Letter: Contemporary Art

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | Frank Juárez

Embedding contemporary practices into our teaching, classroom culture, and curriculum opens the door to unlimited opportunities to engage our students in their learning, building relationships, and co ...

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Reverse Realities

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | Leigh Drake

I love having students experiment with everyday items they can find in and outside the art room. Encouraging them to look at something and ask, “What can I turn this into? Can this be art?&rdquo ...

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Buddy Crafts: Making Inclusion the Focus

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | Karen Rosenburg

As an art teacher, I always seek to make my classes inclusive for students with disabilities through research, presentations, and conversations with other educators about best practices. Many of these ...

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Artist Birthday: Asger Jorn (1914-1973 Denmark)

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | Karl Cole

Asger Jorn was a leading painter of the European post-war CoBrA artists group. The CoBrA artists sought to distance European abstraction from its tradition of geometric forms, introducing more express ...

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March 2026 is Women's History Month

Monday, March 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

I have always maintained that there is no period in history anywhere in the world when women artists did not play a significant role in the world’s cultures. Up until about fifty years ago, howe ...

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Artist Birthday: Eleanor Antin (born 1935 US)

Friday, February 27, 2026 | Karl Cole

Eleanor Antin is a performance artist, filmmaker, conceptualist artist and college professor. Her body of work dates back to the early days of the Women’s Art Movement of the early 1970s. Her pi ...

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Artist Birthday: Elihu Vedder (1836-1923 US)

Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

The American painter Elihu Vedder is remembered primarily for his Symbolist style of painting, which emphasized Gothic and Romantic fantasy. His early work was soundly within the mid-century Realism m ...

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Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | Karl Cole

Impressionism, a painting movement that arose from the earlier Realism movement, was one of the first revolutions in the history of development of painting, wherein artists did not rely solely on comm ...

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African American History Month: Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972 US)

Monday, February 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Self-taught artists are often well into their middle age when they begin to take up their artistic practice. Having reached their middle years, many of them bring to their work valuable practical know ...

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Spring is Almost Here...Really

Artist Birthday for 13 March: Maximilien Luce (1858-1941 France)

Artist Birthday for 12 March: Anish Kapoor

This Day in History 11 March, 1895: Boston Public Library

March is Women's History Month

Artist Birthday: Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878 US)

Artist Birthday: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770 Italy)

Editor's Letter: Contemporary Art

Reverse Realities

Buddy Crafts: Making Inclusion the Focus

Artist Birthday: Asger Jorn (1914-1973 Denmark)

March 2026 is Women's History Month

Artist Birthday: Eleanor Antin (born 1935 US)

Artist Birthday: Elihu Vedder (1836-1923 US)

Artist Birthday: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 France)

African American History Month: Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972 US)

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