April 22, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Ode to My Mom Mother’s Day, May 10, 2020 By Holly Jacobson You were not a Kool-Aid mom. No grape jelly. No white bread. Ugly peanut butter, ugly brown apple butter. I was a lunch room outcast. And now I know. You were right. Peaches. Hanging like a sunset, a […]
April 14, 2021 at 12:36 am
Google celebrates Johannes Gutenberg with a Doodle. I am a big fan. Anyone who likes reading should be. I love books and I love printmaking, so I like Johannes a lot. Learn more about movable type and his creation of the printing press by following the links. His invention was […]
April 5, 2021 at 10:38 am
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April 2, 2021 at 11:48 am
“As a writer, I look to expand my range. Poetry has always been challenging and I was excited to start the Spoken Word class through PWA. The teaching artist, Samuel, had a way to aid your writing that I haven’t experienced before. This was the result.” — Michelle M. In […]
March 30, 2021 at 11:59 am
“This is a painting I made in a painting-from-a-photograph class with Pamm Hanson. I am a fan of Jimi Hendrix since I was a teenager. I have been trying to draw and paint his likeness for close to 50 years with no success. I learned a lot in this class […]
March 26, 2021 at 3:57 pm
This is Baby. I came to meet him in a very unusual way. His owner’s sister called me for help. It seems the owner, a fifties-ish woman, was fleeing a domestic violence abuser. They had been sharing an inoperable RV on an urban farm. She’d had enough, so she had […]
March 17, 2021 at 2:01 pm
This Google Doodle is by artist Arron Croasdell, based in Dublin, and honors that beloved Irish holiday celebrated worldwide: St. Patrick’s Day. “Being an Irish designer, it’s so nice to represent our national holiday on a global scale.” The artwork features symbols that represent Ireland’s geography, architecture, and history. The […]