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National Native American Heritage Month, art by Ojibwa Culture

Monday, November 9, 2026 | Karl Cole

Beadwork is one of the most distinctive characteristics of Ojibwa artistic expression. Before European contact, Ojibwe women decorated clothing and regalia with shells, dyed porcupine quills, bird qui ...

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Artist Birthday: Wendell Castle (1932-2018 US)

Friday, November 6, 2026 | Karl Cole

Wendell Castle was one of the pioneers of the American Studio Furniture/Woodworking movement that emerged after World War II (1939-1945). He is synonymous with finely crafted, unique furniture forms a ...

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Artist Birthday: Joseph DeCamp (1858-1923 US)

Thursday, November 5, 2026 | Karl Cole

Joseph DeCamp was one of “The Ten”, a group ten American painters who seceded from the National Academy of Art in New York over its refusal to exhibit American Impressionists’ artwor ...

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Artist Birthday: Don Eddy (born 1944 US)

Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | Karl Cole

Don Eddy’s complex, fascinating Photorealist paintings and prints can truly lead to many hours of discovery on close inspection. To say his discerning eye leads to incisive realism would be an u ...

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National Native American Heritage Month, art by Ancestral Pueblo Culture

Monday, November 2, 2026 | Karl Cole

All over the world, cultures and countries are able to see their history in the ruins of ancient buildings and cities. That is certainly true in the US, where the ruins of ancient indigenous cultures ...

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National Italian-American Month: art by Joseph Stella (1877-1946 US, born Italy)

Friday, October 30, 2026 | Karl Cole

Many Italian American artists at the turn of the 1900s were influenced by modernist art movements in Europe and inflected nascent American modernism with them. Joseph Stella worked in Futurism, Cubism ...

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Awesome Autumn Color by William Keith (1839-1911 US, born Scotland)

Monday, October 26, 2026 | Karl Cole

Autumn is all too short of a season in my mind. I could basically look at fall tree colors all year round, but, of course, that isn’t possible. It is however possible to see autumn colors year r ...

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Artist Birthday: Sarah Lucas(born 1962 Britain)

Friday, October 23, 2026 | Karl Cole

Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of the Young British Artists movement who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and risqué humor by incorporat ...

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Artist Birthday: Sophie Ristelhueber (born 1949 France)

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 | Karl Cole

Since the development of photography art form in the early 1800s, the medium has been considered ideal for documenting reality. “Reality” includes wars. The earliest wars documented by pho ...

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International Chef Day: art by Chaim Soutine (1893-1943 France, born Belarus)

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | Karl Cole

International Chef Day was established by the World Association of Chefs’ Societies in 2004 to celebrate the culinary profession and to encourage chefs to pass on their knowledge to the next gen ...

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