I discovered this site because I receive group e-mails from a cousin who is now home schooling her young two daughters due to the coronavirus. Their grandmother sent this site for the children. I spent hours yesterday checking on this pair of eagles hatching their eggs. It can take up to 24 hours or more
Category: Open Arts
In order to get images on the website more easily (based on the comments by Teri and Barbara in the mail art thread) a simple copy and paste will work! I clicked on an image on the internet, hit copy (right clic k and then copy…or Ctrl c…or Command c for mac), and then just
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
I’ve been inconsistently working on animation for a little over a year now. I made a couple little things last year as a valentines gift for S, and remembering the lessons I learned, was able to make something a little bit better looking this year. I put it on youtube to make it easier to
This lovely selection of Dorothy Parker’s short stories is a snapshot into the mundane everyday life in the early mid 20th Century. A timely read as we all refocus on our own mundane lives and disruption to our social connections. Parker takes the small aspects of lives, ones often taken for granted and celebrates them
As some of you know I’ve been studying white since the turn of the year and it has been a fruitful search — I have so many examples of observations around white, and I’ve had the pleasure of friends writing to me about their reflections of white and other fun surprises. I got white eggplants
If you haven’t heard of Naomi Klein, you should check her out. Her latest collaboration with The Intercept is worth viewing: “Coronavirus Capitalism”: Naomi Klein’s Case for Transformative Change Amid Coronavirus Pandemic What ideas are lying around from our reading? I am thinking of Walt Whitman, Eugene Debs, and even what Marie Curie might be
I have watched these two episodes of Craft in America and felt they are worth sharing during these isolating times: Craft in America IDENTITY episode Craft in America QUILTS episode My friend sent me these links a few weeks ago and I am glad I had them to lean on the last few afternoons. There
Just had to share this photograph that my daughter texted me while on a walk in the woods with Stella. Can you believe these roots? Two different tree genus and the same phenomena. The tree in the foreground is an old growth Western Juniper, the back one is a mature Ponderosa Pine. Find myself wondering
This short memoir came to me as an advance reader from the library. I enjoyed the fluctuation between letters from her mother and her prose throughout the story. This story partially takes place in Davis, which felt unusual– I haven’t read many books that mention Davis, California as a location. Eun Ji gives lots of
Seasonal Reading 