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The surprising reason supermarkets sell flowers

That's no coincidence — there's a strategic decision behind those flowers' placement.

How Incarcerated Youth Are Making Their Voices Heard Through Art

At Artistic Noise, young people in the justice system explore their creative potential and inherent power.

Drought, Wildfire, and Lush Garden Imagery: An Interview with Laura Reece Hogan — Dappled Things

Featured in the “More Organic Than It May Appear:” A Symposium on Creativity and Motherhood, Mary, Queen of Angels 2021 issue of Dappled Things. Author, poet, mother, lawyer, and lay Carmelite, Laura Reece Hogan inhabits not a cloistered ivory tower in some faraway sheltered place but the real ye

A creative composite of illustration: ten years of Christoph Ruckhäberle’s Lubok

“I always like it when things fall into place,” says Christoph Ruckhäberle, the founder, editor and curator of _Lubok_, a publication that doesn’t stick to the same rules as its contemporaries. Based in Leipzig and sporadically released, the highlight of each issue is the element of surprise. _Lubok_ covers are always vividly patterned, giving no indication to the often monochrome content that resides within it. Issues…

How to get your work in an art gallery

Before figuring out how to approach art galleries, attend as many art gallery openings & show as you can. All you can do is introduce yourself to the gallery owners & curators. Get familiarized with local gallery painting stories along with up & comers. They make great conversation starters. Try to be cordial, but remember

7 Ways Art Galleries Can Help You Build a Successful Career

Over the last several years, there's been a growing sense among some artists that art galleries may be waning - that the business model may not work anymore. The internet and large art shows and festivals have provided artists new opportunities to display and sell their artwork directly to collector

What's your favourite work of art? York Art Gallery wants to know...

IS there a book, work of art, film, piece of music or building that has really changed your life, or brought you up short and stopped you in your…

‘Ooh look, the gift shop’: how to do an art gallery properly

When an art gallery comes alive with a light-sound performance

The Long and Short of It is a compelling, immersive, visual-sensory production

Learn how the Bauhaus Movement influenced design history. Art Gallery

Learn how the Bauhaus Movement influenced design history with its emphasis on theory and practice as taught by the masters. The timeless principles of Bauhaus design still hold up and to this day the iconic Bauhaus style inspires graphic designers all over the world.

Donate Blood, Fix Up an Art Gallery, and Other Ways You Can Help Clean Up After Sandy

Owning Mom on How to Pull Off a (Subtle) Sports Theme

Artist Leaves His Paintings For People To Find After Getting Rejected By Art Galleries

My Dog Sighs, a talented street artist from England, made his first drawing when he was 7 years old. Since then everyone knew him as a child who can draw, and this was enough to set him on a journey to become an artist. Later, he left his job at a primary school where he worked as a teacher, decided

Feeling down? Hit up an art gallery online for a rapid mood boost

For some people, wandering around a gallery or museum to ponder over a Picasso, revel in a Rembrandt, or find meaning in a Magritte can boost their mood and improve their well-being. But is the same true for viewing art online? New research says that it is.

Going to art galleries, museums and concerts this many times linked to living longer

Cultural activities help to get people moving and combats loneliness, the authors said.

When A Local Women's Shelter Takes Over An Art Gallery, Beautiful Things Happen

Pottery show merges art, history

Many collectors also had tables set up displaying their favorite pieces of pottery dating back to the 1800s. In the center of the room was a table where experts evaluated

How to do Pottery for Kids at Home

The Pottery Cool pottery wheel makes easy pottery for kids activities. Complete with wheel, tools, paint and enough clay and instructions to make 6 projects.

Art Class: Hand Building Pottery Basics

Creating with a flat slab of clay is one of the most versatile pottery techniques, applicable to beginning through intermediate artists. In this three-part workshop, students use slabs to make a variety of works, from tiles to serving pieces, bowls, cups, and pitchers, incorporating decorative elements by adding or subtracting clay.

Kids learn pottery skills at Fired Works

Kids got a chance to get their hands dirty and make clay sculptures at Fired Works in Macon.