Safety Pin Solidarity
Following the vote for Brexit, the EU referendum, in England, a safety pin campaign was launched encouraging the British pubic to wear them to show solidarity with immigrants. People are wearing them ...
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Revisiting a Family of Woodcarvers in Oaxaca
Every time we go to Oaxaca, our trip would not be complete without visiting Augustin Cruz Prudencio and his family. ...
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Big Thinking about Structure
Several years ago I had the opportunity to teach Chinese students at a winter camp in Beijing. We only had one day free for sightseeing and our hosts were determined that we would spend it seeing the ...
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Visiting a Legend in Oaxaca: Josefina Aguilar
Josefina Aguilar is the matriarch of a family of artists and the first to gain recognition for her unique and colorful clay figures. I'm pretty sure I've been to her home every time I have visited Oax ...
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TAEA: Tops in Tennessee
I'm just back from the Tennessee Art Education Association Conference in Nashville where I connected with friends I made at the Tennessee Arts Academy this summer and made some wonderful new ones. The ...
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We Are of This Place: The Pueblo Cultural Center
Another new addition to our SchoolArts/CRIZMAC Tres Culturas experience next summer will be a visit to the Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. This center represents the Eight Northern Pueblos in N ...
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Porcelain in Pen: Inspiration from Chinese Porcelain Plates
Celebrating cultures is a concept that helps broaden our understanding of our world. Especially given these complicated times, the arts, and particularly the visual arts, are vehicles that most wonder ...
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Walking in the Steps of Ancient Artists: Petroglyph National Monument
Yesterday my husband and I went to Albuquerque to preview some new sites we will be visiting with our SchoolArts/CRIZMAC Tres Culturas: Exploring the Artistic Spirit of Santa Fe and Taos gro ...
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Thoughts on Artistry
Author Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, states that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. How does this work? Gladwell says that deliberate practi ...
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Fall in Santa Fe: On Museum Hill
This is our first Fall in Santa Fe and the color couldn't be better between the bright yellow flowers and leaves and the unbelievably blue sky. I was on Museum Hill for a talk about Chaco Canyon and t ...
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