Artist Focused on Color with Great Impact: A Black History Month Retrospective

Artist Focused on Color with Great Impact: A Black History Month Retrospective

Her artwork (“Sky Light”) graces the Obama’s private residence in the White House. She was the first student to graduate with a B.S. in Fine Arts from Howard University. She was the first African American to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and critics raved! A teacher and community arts developer, this lady…

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Encourage Your Child to Make a Scene this Holiday Season

The holidays are a perfect time to cultivate your children’s creativity, drawing upon theflurry of images, stories and sounds of the holiday season! Invite your children to create art that expresses their feelings and ideas. Ideally,you can provide your children with an oversized sketch pad along with lots of art materials. Perhaps your child’s art…

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Take Timeout for Art: the Ultimate Stress-Buster

Art relieves angst, especially open-ended creative immersion with engaging art materials. Life today can be noisy, distracting, challenging and sometimes upsetting. Even our children fall prey to stressful situations. Give your children a timeout for a soothing art experience. A blank sketchpad with crayons, markers, pencils, paint or a nice mound of soft sculpting material…

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