Something calming and meditative for your day.

He, too, was a soldier during the First World War. Some scenes in his books are a reflection on his experiences.

My great-grandmother had a younger brother who volunteered for the Iowa National Guard just after the Pancho Villa expedition into Mexico. After America became embroiled in World War I, he was sent to Europe to fight in the trenches. He was injured in July of 1918 and died from his […]

Pop Art By a Nun Luann, creative mentor and former board member, shared this in the last open studio: “Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us.To create means to relate.The root meaning of the word art is ‘to fit together’and we all do this every day.Not all of […]

WATCH THE PATH WITH ART SPRING FUNDRAISER More than 800 people have viewed it so far, and the wonderful Path with Art community raised more than $330,000! Woohoo! I want to thank every donor and volunteer who helped make this happen. The PWA community is amazing!

I came across this news story from the BBC. It documents how everyday people are turning something sad and negative into the precise opposite. There is a trigger warning at the beginning of the video.

I am a big fan of Elton John, if you haven’t noticed. Music helps get me and keep me moving.

Music + WritingI love this Simon and Garfunkel song. Music is often inspiring to me. The score to Alfred Hitchcock‘s film North by Northwest helped me write what was supposed to be a short story for a college writing class. It ended up on the path to being a novel. […]

The wonderful and hard-working Ghaddra sent me this. It is about forgotten women artists, a series by the Journal of Art in Society. In this case, the focus is on a woman named Marie-Gabrielle Capet. Marie-Gabrielle Capet, who painted the self-portrait to the left in 1783 or 1784, was a […]