Long-time PWA Participant Artist Dragonsong wants to share another photo from her trip to Rio de Janeiro in 2007. “We visited the huge and awe-inspiring statue of Christ. It is a magnificent monument.” The statue is called Christ the Redeemer, or in Portuguese, Cristo Redentor. The style is Art Deco. […]
Artists, critics, and architects are discussing how culture responded and continues to respond to 9/11. “I wouldn’t say that the attacks had a big effect on my thinking so much as the amorphous and ambiguous war on terror and the authorization of military force giving the president unlimited power to […]
“As lockdowns began, artists and models migrated to video conferencing—revolutionizing who gets to sketch and be sketched.” Take a gander.
Bill posing with his painting of eggs and toast, inspired by breakfasts with his father. UPDATE: Tickets may still be available, using this link. This Sunday, William W. Knight — known to many of us as Bill and the painter of what Holly Jacobson affectionately calls “The United States of […]
In 2007 I was privileged to go to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on a working anthropology trip for a class called Women, Witchcraft, and Religion. This is a gorgeous sunset I caught that evening as we were coming back to the hotel. — PWA Participant Artist Dragonsong
Pauline Palmer was an American artist based in Chicago. In 1919, Palmer became the first woman elected president of the Chicago Society of Artists. The New York Times, in 1938, upon her death, noted that many art critics celebrated her as one of the most important painters in America. She […]
BEING COMPASSIONATE AND UNDERSTANDINGThis is from a newsletter that hits my inbox from time to time. Don’t give up. Over the past 18 months, humanity has been worn down by the pandemic. Life has not been easy and there may be additional challenges ahead. But as Winston Churchill once said, […]
I have always felt that we are not alone in this universe. After the recent releases of footage of actual UFOs, I was inspired to paint my version of a UFO, using acrylic on stretched canvas. — PWA Participant Artist William W. Knight
We should have a class! Bex, get on it. (Please.) (Yes, I know that it is not your role. Umm, Emily?) Check out the Vancouver Film School YouTube channel .
Pallet is a social purpose company on a mission to build equal opportunity access to housing and employment. Elevating the voices of people with lived experience with homelessness, recovery, and incarceration is integral to Pallet’s mission. In addition to telling the personal stories of their team and people living in […]
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