Best art projects for kids using multimedia.
My dear friend Jenny Brown is teaching another art collage class at Maud Morgan Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, and it’s not too late to sign up! I took her class last fall and it’s so much fun. It’s perfect for someone who would like to try an art class but isn’t confident about their…
I made a video of my watercolor paintings for my company’s virtual show. This is the long version. I submitted a shorter version that is half the length. I started watercolor painting as a form of mental health therapy back in 1995. I enjoy it so much that I’ve been taking art classes ever since….
Today, I wanted to look at the Civil Rights Movement told through art and children’s books. Both are powerful communication tools both to educate and as a means to connect emotionally with what happened. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans…
My husband and I had to scramble to make the Hokusai exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. When it first came out, I earmarked it and felt like I had all the time in the world to see it. Suddenly, I discovered that the exhibit would be moving on in two weeks…
I love bonsai. I found a wonderful collection of bonsai at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh when I visited there a few years ago. For my birthday, I requested a trip to a local bonsai nursery. Every year for my birthday which falls in early January, I make my husband…
Our oldest, Grasshopper and Sensei, is a student at Rhode Island School of Design, and we always made it a point to visit art museums whenever we traveled, but this was the first time that we traveled with her but went to an art museum without her. She took her siblings for a day of…
My First-To-College Mentee was interested in storyboarding as a career in the entertainment industry. Storyboarding can be the ultimate creative job — think Star Wars and who got to imagine that world with all the various types of aircraft and weaponry! But even commercials need storyboarding as a way to communicate to the client what…