by Elaine Luther | Jul 24, 2019 | Artists
Imagine you’re going to walk out into pastures to draw horses and sheep from life, or to the slaughter house, to see what the muscles of animals look like under the skin (better to paint them) but you have to do it in a long skirt, that brushes the ground. A...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 22, 2019 | Activists
Most of us know at least some of the lines from the poem that’s inscribed on the State of Liberty in New York, New York. But not everyone knows the name of the poet. It’s Emma Lazarus, who was born on this day, July 22, in 1849. Another fact I learned is...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 22, 2019 | Activists
Can you imagine a time when young women would be hired to work in a factory, painting watch faces with radioactive paint? It happened, in New Jersey and Illinois and the young women whose lives were changed forever are known as the Radium Girls. Radium You might...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Has The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein always bothered you? When I was a kid, my brother and I devoured the Shel Silverstein poetry books, such as Where the Sidewalk Ends. Quirky things like a little girl who eats and entire elephant didn’t bother me. But I...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 8, 2019 | Artists
Sofanisba Anguissola was a portrait painter during the Italian Renaissance. (You may have heard of other Renaissance painters such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Michangelo and Leonardo DaVinci.) She was born in 1532 in Cremona, Italy to a family of minor nobility. Her...
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