by Elaine Luther | Nov 3, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
The 91 year old artist was born March 22, 1929 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. In her long career, she has also made sculpture, films, avant-garde fashion, and nearly everything involves dots. To learn more about her, here’s a terrific article, with lots of photos,...
by Elaine Luther | Nov 2, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Nina Katchadourian, American Artist American artist Nina Katchadourian used to give herself an artistic challenge each time she took a trip by plane. She had to make art, at her seat, without bringing along any special supplies. She did things such as taking little...
by Elaine Luther | Nov 2, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Alma Woodsey Thomas’ paintings look like they’re a mosaic, from a distance, but in reality they’re paintings made of painted shapes. These painted shapes make up the abstract images she painted. Her paintings have names that reference what she was...
by Elaine Luther | Nov 2, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Learn about Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter, and choose one of two art projects inspired by impressionism. Here’s a fun one: draw with pastels, a favorite art medium of the Impressionists, on Shrink Plastic, then bake it!...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 14, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Lee Krasner was an abstract expressionist painter whose husband was also a painter. When they met, she was more well known and successful than he was. Many people credit him with achieving abstraction first, before his wife. But biographer Gail Levin, who wrote a...
by Elaine Luther | Oct 13, 2020 | Arts and Crafts for Kids
Women Artists as Allegories Women artists in the Renaissance period (14th Century) and before often painted themselves as an allegory of painting. An allegory is an idea, embodied in a person. The Statue of Liberty is the idea of liberty, expressed in a statue of a...
Recent Comments