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I love picture books even though I haven’t been a kid in a long time. What I love most are all the different ways that artists use materials to create pictures that help tell a story. Some artists create illustrations using paint, pastel chalks, ink, markers, paper and even fabrics.…
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Everything around us is an opportunity for wonder and curiosity. Slow noticing is all you need to unlock this power. Right now there’s a proliferation of resources for learning at home, and for taking care of ourselves through the challenges of this moment. Paradoxically, efforts to help us through this…
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Have you ever played Telephone — when someone whispers in your ear and you pass the message along? The game of Exquisite Corpse, invented by a playful group of artists who called themselves Surrealists, is similar. You begin drawing, then let a partner add to it. Like a ripple effect,…
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In this new series we feature masterworks and key art from Columbus Museum of Art's Collection. Elijah Pierce American, 1892-1984 The White House, 1977 Carved and painted wood relief with glitter and applied rhinestones on corrugated cardboard Museum Purchase Elijah Pierce was a barber, self-taught artist, and itinerant preacher who…
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Water is Life: Finding the ripples, swirls, and other inspiration from the water Water is the single most necessary element to sustain life on the planet. Water is also a great source inspiration for many artists. Many artists and creatives find different ways to represent this beautiful and powerful life…
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I step out of the disrupting circumstances of life to make art. I find making art helps me heal. O.K. you may say. How? As a child, I gravitated instinctively to art-making and quiet spaces where I would make things with cardboard, glue, rice or shoe polish. These were my…
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