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National Floral Design Day

Friday, February 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

Clara Peeters's work carried on the great tradition of observed realism established by the early Flemish Renaissance painters Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) and Rogier van der Weyden (1399/1400– ...

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Artist Birthday: Nicolas Roope

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Karl Cole

As an artist, Nicolas Roope looks beyond industry rhetoric in favor of the truths of digital media and design. He has founded numerous influential tech and design companies. Roope only approached desi ...

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Artist Birthday: Nōguchi Shōhin

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

The painting style that evolved during the Southern Song Dynasty is considered by scholars to have been the classic example of Chinese monochromatic painting, particularly the "literati" sty ...

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Black History Month: Cey Adams

Monday, February 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Throughout the history of the United States, African American artists have been pioneers in many artistic movement. Since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1930s), many Black American ...

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This Day in (Art) History: Abdication of King Louis-Phillipe of France

Monday, February 24, 2025 | Karl Cole

Louis Phillipe (1773–1850) was king of France from 1830–1848, until he was deposed by a revolution of the working classes which rejected his conservatism. Although theoretically a constitu ...

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This Day in (art) History: Dedication of the Washington Monument

Friday, February 21, 2025 | Karl Cole

Mills based his design on the elegant simplicity of the rectangular ancient Egyptian obelisks, with a circular base which was to be the colonnaded pavilion. Such obelisks had served similar functions, ...

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Artist Birthday: Eduardo MacEntyre

Thursday, February 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

The complex linear patterns in MacEntyre's Generative Paintings were reminiscent of the nautilus designs of Leonardo Fibonacci (1175–1250), an Italian mathematician, whose designs were based on ...

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Artist Birthday: Awazu Kiyoshi

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

In Art Today in Kyoto, Awazu's composition focuses on recalling the past artistic glories of Kyoto, the former imperial capital (794–1868 CE) and an important artistic center which fostered some ...

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Black History Month: Ali and Chase-Riboud

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

The Curator’s Corner celebration of Black History Month continues with two contemporary artists whose personal visions are broadly different, but fascinating nonetheless—Laylah Ali and Bar ...

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Artist Birthday: Jasper Cropsey

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

This large-scale painting was executed from memory while Cropsey was in London. It is sometimes considered one of the last great works of a school of painting that fell into decline after the Civil Wa ...

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Artist Birthday: Minami Keiko

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | Karl Cole

Keiko Minami was a sōsaku hanga (creative print) artist, a group of printmakers (primarily woodcut) who created the drawing, carved the woodblock, and printed the image, as opposed to the traditional ...

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Editor's Letter: Advocacy

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Frank Juárez

In this issue, we introduce various ways to address advocacy through multiple lenses. What it looks like in our art room will range on how we address topics or issues such as cultural perspectives, eq ...

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Masterpieces from Mistakes

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Sarah Chaffee

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a student throws away a perfectly good piece of paper because it has a small rip, wrinkle, smudge, hole, or even a scribble. A few years ago, I happened across Bar ...

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Abstract Modernism: Inspired by Elizabeth Murray

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Megan Giampietro

I was interested in teaching my middle-school art students diversified art history lessons about the work of a woman in the arts who was important in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabet ...

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What Is Luminous

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Kari Giordano

Starting the course with this project ensured students’ comfort level and introduced them to the transformative power of photography. I wanted to emphasize the importance of finding joy in every ...

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An Art Exchange with Ukraine

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Nelli Helton

Through art, we can communicate with people from all over the world. Stories can be told, feelings expressed, and an understanding of other artists and their work can be established without learning o ...

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This Day in (Art) History: Abdication of King Louis-Phillipe of France

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Artist Birthday: Eduardo MacEntyre

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Black History Month: Ali and Chase-Riboud

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Abstract Modernism: Inspired by Elizabeth Murray

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