kids' art

3 reasons to visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Despite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the...

art camps: pursuing Beauty together

Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...

love despite ugliness

Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...

rebirth & regeneration: the image of the snake

Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...

the iconography of faerytales

With the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed....

beauty & simplicity

The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...

enjoy an art museum today

Now that school is out, many parents are looking for interesting, fun alternatives to sitting around at home watching their children...