Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2025

How to choose art for the bare walls of a new house

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It began with a June 19 Facebook post by artist Linda Anne Lopez of Winchester, Virginia. Linda and I met several times over the years. She...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Ormond museum features art from the war in France and the war at home

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(Continued from Jan. 13) I spend a lot of time at Malcolm Fraser’s “The Soul Escaping Death” painting flanked by a framed spread of many m...
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Monday, January 13, 2025

Malcolm Fraser flies with the angels at Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens

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What makes a 49-year-old artist abandon his paints and go to war? That’s the question I pondered when visiting the Ormond Memorial Art Mus...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

It's time again for the Wyoming Governor's Arts Awards

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This time every year the Wyoming Arts Council hires me to write the story on the annual Governor's Arts Awards recipients. Some of them ...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

In the good ol' summertime, we hear about The Great War and Scott Joplin ragtime

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Last time I was in Casper, I could walk on my own. August 21, 2017, the total solar eclipse cut across a swath of Wyoming that ran from Jack...
Saturday, August 05, 2023

What's really in that Paris apartment, and why is it so important?

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“The Paris Apartment” by Kelly Bowen is the second book recommended on the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook site to take me back to F...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

WyoFile: "Gutting arts funding is a bad look for Wyoming's future"

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Pinedale artist Sue Sommers wrote a fine op-ed in WyoFile today advocating for support of the Wyoming Arts Council. The header says a lot: ...
Saturday, June 03, 2023

Donuts that are pretty as a picture

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Donuts! Haven’t given them much thought the past couple decades. They once were a regular morning feature, coffee and donuts. You know it ...
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Monday, February 06, 2023

Don't get around much anymore, but plan to change that

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My daughter Annie invited me to go on the Friday ArtWalk. I used to go every month when I worked at the Wyoming Arts Council. Then I retired...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Two Chicano artists from Wyoming tell their stories at Meow Wolf Denver

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There's a story here. That's what I said to myself when I found out that two Chicano artists with Wyoming roots were charged with in...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Jackson Hole Art Blog keeps me posted about arts events in Teton County and beyond

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I spent two hours this morning reading Tammy Christel’s Jackson Hole Art Blog and 12 days of posts on Tammy’s Facebook page  about the fall...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2021

A prelude to fall this weekend at Cheyenne Botanic Gardens Harvest Festival

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I'm volunteering Saturday afternoon at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens front desk. The place will be hopping with the annual Heirlooms and ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

History and storytelling in historical fiction

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One of the great things about historical fiction is the discovery of familiar names whom I know little or nothing about. This, of course, ma...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Pandemic tip: You can view most Wyoming public art from the comfort and safety of your car

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I was noodling around on my PC and I clicked on the Cheyenne Arts web site. I was pleased to see an upgraded site now includes a  Cheyenne A...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Art and writing share a sense of mystery

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My colleague Sue Sommers in the Studio Wyoming Review group opened up her latest review of an art show with this writer's quote:  “I wr...