While I was out-and-about this weekend, I overheard someone nearby exclaim, “This meal looks so amazing, I just have to take a picture!” I think it is safe to say that at some point in our modern lives we have all shared in this same excitement… to be so in awe of a meal that […]
Read more "Still Lifes – Then & Now"Summer is the perfect time to relax and dive into a good book. The Winter Garden Art Association is hosting an Art Lovers Book Club this summer to inspire creativity and to promote the joys of reading. Together we will read and discuss books that all have an art-based theme and each discussion will be […]
Read more "Art Lovers Book Club"In my current lecture series – #ArtHistoryTrending – we explore the connections between art historical traditions and current pop culture and social media trends. In Session 2 we will discuss the trend of taking food photos and posting them to Instagram and the Dutch Baroque tradition of still life paintings. We will also look at […]
Read more "Still Lifes & #SquadGoals"What a delight it was to explore the Cornell Fine Arts Museum last week with a group of members from the Winter Garden Art Association! In the hopes of offering more art-based outings for WGAA members, we decided to experiment with art meet ups. This was our first attempt and it went splendidly! We met at CFAM on […]
Read more "Cornell Fine Arts Museum"Pop culture, advertising, social media… what do they all have in common??? They all find their inspiration in art history! I passionately believe that the pop culture we create today is the art history we’ll study in 100 years. Want proof? Join me for the first session of my #ArtHistoryTrending lecture series hosted by the Winter Garden Art […]
Read more "#ArtHistoryTrending"What is it??? Surrealism, of course! Saturday I wrapped the last lecture in my newest series, “Modern Art Madness!” I am so grateful to the Winter Garden Art Association for hosting this series and to all the attendees who participated. We ended our whirlwind adventure through Modern Art’s many “-isms” by discussing Surrealism and its connections to […]
Read more "The Ultimate “-ism” of Modern Art"You cannot deny that the internet is changing not only the way we SEE art, but the way in which we PERCEIVE art as well. Please join me for a fun, humorous, yet still insightful exploration of art historical influences on today’s pop culture trends as I kick off my #ArtHistoryTrending lecture series a week […]
Read more "Art History + the Internet = Pop Culture?"THANK YOU to everyone participating in my current lecture series, “Modern Art Madness!” Saturday we discussed Marcel Duchamp’s astounding influence on the art world and Dada’s impact on how we view/perceive/appreciate ART. We had some deep theoretical conversations, but we also made time to play! Be sure to register for the last lecture in this […]
Read more "Readymades"THANK YOU! I am so grateful to everyone who attended Saturday’s lecture at SoBo Gallery, hosted by the Winter Garden Art Association. It was the first session in my new series – “Modern Art Madness!” – and was titled “Modern Art: Why Should I Like It?” I had a marvelous time discussing Modern Art’s origin […]
Read more "Modern Art’s Origin Story"Modern Art is an incredibly immense umbrella under which reside a multitude of “-isms” used to describe movements in art. Impressionism Post-impressionism Cubism Pointillism Expressionism Fauvism Abstract Expressionism Futurism The list goes on and on! Join me this Saturday, March 10th as we tackle a few of these infamous “-isms” in my new lecture, “Modern […]
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