Artists & Their Pets

If you are looking for a fun and creative way to introduce artists and art history to young people, then this is the book for you!  Artists & Their Pets, by Susie Hodge with illustrations by Violet Lemay, makes famous artists more relatable by including the animals and pets they loved and cared for throughout […]

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Nick Cave FEAT.

I attended the opening for Nick Cave: FEAT. Friday night and was instantly transported to a magical land of hallucinogenic technicolor, whimsical found objects and the very best Soundsuits I have ever seen.  Approaching the exhibition space, guests are greeted by a huge wall plastered with an enormous vinyl of melting, dripping and blurring shapes and […]

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More Sugar Skulls!

Yesterday I posted the big reveal of my art wine box for the 3rd Annual Wine Box Art Show taking place tonight.  It was a long time before I settled on an idea, but once I decided what my theme was, it was important for me as an artist, to craft as many of the […]

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“Coco” Inspired Ofrenda

It’s time for the big reveal! As you know, from a few hints posted to this blog, I was invited to contribute a piece to the 3rd Annual Wine Box Art Show benefiting the Zebra Coalition of Orlando.  This fantastic fundraiser is organized by the owners of The Barefoot Spa to raise money for the […]

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Dangerous Women

Join me for an art meet up at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum that is FREE for members of the Winter Garden Art Association and $10 for nonmembers.  I will lead our group through a unique and atypical tour of their new exhibition, “Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.”  […]

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Return to Mount Dora

The Wandering Art Historian wanders back to Mount Dora, FL this October with a very special Dine & Learn presentation titled, “Brushing Up on Impressionism.”  This lecture celebrates the movement that changed the art world forever and continues to inspire to this very day. “Brushing Up on Impressionism!” Dine & Learn in Mount Dora, FL […]

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Fall Lecture Preview #3

Next month I am debuting a brand new lecture series that I am thrilled to be sharing with all of you titled, “How to Read a Painting.”  Hosted by the Winter Garden Art Association, this series will run for three weeks in October and cover the topics COLOR, SYMBOLS and STORIES in art.  This will […]

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Nick Cave #3

I saw my third Nick Cave Soundsuit in October of 2015 while visiting Washington, D.C.  This city is pure heaven if you love museums as much as I do… and they are all free!  At the end of a long day, I found myself wandering towards Chinatown and even though I was tired and starving, […]

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Nick Cave #2

I saw my second Nick Cave Soundsuit by complete accident.  I visited Las Vegas for the first time in 2015 and was wandering through the Bellagio when I nearly ran right into a Soundsuit in a glass display case in the middle of the walkway.  I stopped dead in my tracks and stared.  I couldn’t […]

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