I’m attending (online, of course) a “Call to Art” Un-conference organized by Cindy Ingram for art educators. I hopped onto Cindy’s email list right after she spoke to the Meadows Museum’s docents during a training session. She made a call for videos contributors to the Un-Conference, and people responded. Not all of the subject matter
Author: Teri Rife
This novel is written “around” slavery and the underground railroad, rooted in the state of Virginia. The main character, Hiram, whose father is the owner of the plantation on which he “tasks” and whose mother is a slave who was put on the auction block by his father when he was still a child. Virginia
Now, how can you resist the incongruity of the name of this book and the name of the author? I couldn’t. The subtitle is “Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages.” It was recommended by a curator at the art museum for further reading. Spike’s delightful bio: Spike Bucklow trained as a chemist. He
Hello, friends. I do not have an organized stack of books this reading season, but I do have two in my possession and several on reserve at the public library. Reserved books take longer to arrive since late fines were eliminated, so I may need to dip into the unread stack of books I own.
I have just finished reading this academic work written about Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain (1634-1696). It was recommended to those of us who attended a gallery talk given by Rebecca Quinn Teresi at the Meadows Museum on the campus of SMU. The museum has a painting of Mariana early in her life by
This book, which is available to read online, was recommended to our incoming new docent training class last year. Now, a year later, I have finished reading it at last. This book is directed to those who manage public institutions and programs. Which of them does not wish to be relevant to as many people
I finished this novel by the poet, Ocean Vuong, yesterday evening. It’s styled as a communication addressed to the narrator’s mother, and the reader can rely on the pronoun “you” as referring to her, a woman born in Vietnam during the war. This is not solely a mother/son story, however. Other personal relationships of the
I have been listening to this book in my car. Yesterday’s trip to Fort Worth (to see the Kimbell Museum’s exhibition of Monet’s late work) brought me to the end of Circe. As a student of Latin in junior and senior high school, and someone who took “Greek and Roman Mythology” as an elective in
This is a delightful children’s book about elements of art: line, shape and color. There is a tour at the Meadows Museum called, “Learning to Look,” for Grades 1-5. Identifying basic elements of art is part of it, so when I saw this book in Brainpickings, I checked it out of the library. It’s so
I have read an Ocean Vuong poem or two prior to this, and have read about Ocean Vuong himself in The New Yorker. He was born in Saigon, lives in NYC, and is 31 years old, having written this, his first full-length collection of poems, in 2016. I’m pleased to report that I had to
Seasonal Reading 