Gullah Geechee believe the color wards off ‘boo hags.’ Perhaps while enjoying travels in the South, and relaxing on a giant front porch, you looked up and noticed the porch ceiling was painted a peaceful, robin’s… Read more“Haint Blue”
Merriam-Webster defines ‘basket’ as: a receptacle made of interwoven material. This definition may create a mental image of what we expect a basket to be. In contemporary basketry, our preconceptions – are creatively challenged. Contemporary… Read moreContemporary Basketry
If you have been fortunate to experience this elegant and mysterious display, you would not soon forget it. Murmuration refers to the phenomenon that results when hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns through… Read moreMurmurations
American poet Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, she becomes the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, joining such previous Pulitzer winners as William… Read moreLouise Glück – American poet – Nobel Laureate
The COVID-19 public health emergency has changed everything about our lives, including how cities arrange public spaces to account for physical distancing. We have new needs we never had before—Where it is safe to place a… Read moreDesigning Physical Distancing in Our Cities
Books are incredible pieces of art: authors arrange tens of thousands of words to form meaningful information. Printers impress those words in thousands of lines on the fronts and backs of hundreds of leaves of paper,… Read moreFore-Edge Painting
The first time I saw the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao I was amazed and perhaps a bit confused by this architect’s awe-inspiring artform. It was unlike any building I had ever seen. Gehry, one of the most… Read moreFrank Gehry – Architect
Amazing Choreography …and great music from James Brown It’s a Man’s World – James Brown / Femme Fatale / Arena LA Thank you to FemmeFatale Enjoy!
Honoring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Through her own words: “I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they… Read moreHonoring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Like today, during the influenza pandemic of 1918, the mandate to wear a mask was not embraced by everyone. “’The man or woman or child who will not wear a mask is now a dangerous slacker,’ declared… Read moreThe Anti-Mask League of 1918
