November 13, 2025
First-Grade Beauty
What were — if any — the artistic consequences of surgery to straighten my crooked eye when I was in First Grade?
Category: Art
November 12, 2025
Kindergarten Beauty
Art isn’t about drawing. It’s about learning to see. But what kind of art do you create as a child when you can’t see straight?
November 6, 2025
So much beauty. So little time.
Keats wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. But when does someone begin to recognize a thing as “beauty”?
October 29, 2025
Gathering My Thoughts
Meet Laura Ellen Bacon, an artist who uses natural materials to create astonishing cocoons and spaces that integrate with their surroundings.
October 28, 2025
What Do You Care About?
To create your art — in its myriad manifestations — start with the question, “What do you care about?”
August 14, 2025
Save the Art Tour I
To save art sometimes requires traveling thousands of miles in less than two days.
June 24, 2025
Don’t Wait to Become Enchanted
“If we wait passively to become enchanted, we could wait a long time.” — from Enchantment by Katherine May