Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Best art projects for kids using multimedia.
I was thrilled to see my daughters interacting with art at Ernesto Neto exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His piece, Water Falls from My Breast to the Sky, 2017, is textile art along with other materials including wood, polyurethane foam, and lavender. I wasn’t familiar with Ernesto Neto and I learned…
One of my favorite museums in Paris is the Musée de l’Orangerie which features 360-degree views of Monet’s Water Lilies. Specially created for this space, there are 4 paintings in each of the two oval-shaped rooms that curve with the walls. I think that they depict the four seasons of Monet’s water lily pond but…
Ansel Adams: In Our Time at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a sweeping look at how he portrayed the American Southwest and his influence and influences. This iconic visual legacy of Ansel Adams (1902–1984) also showed the history of the United States from racism in how Native Americans were portrayed to the internment…
In honor of my oldest daughter who will be heading to art school after gap year, I’m celebrating photographers in picture books. My daughter has been the force behind the photography of indigo clothing co., a company she started with her younger sister. There is nothing like trial by fire to learn photography. She started…
On Monday, my son’s 7th grade class began work on their Ancient Feast museum artifact projects. The Ancient Feast has been a tradition at F. A. Day Middle School for 36 years. While it has changed a great deal since its original inception, the Feast is a celebratory moment. Students work on their own or…