We are upholding this annual tradition of celebrating kindness because we know everyone can use more kindness in their lives. Scientific evidence shows us the positive effects of doing kind acts for others as well as receiving or even witnessing kindness. Even the smallest act of kindness can change a […]
Learn about the Chinese New Year, the traditions and the taboos. Celebrations are weeks-long, culminating in the Lantern Festival on February 26ᵗʰ this year.
Thanks to teaching artist Laurie Brown and creative mentor Jade Willis for sending this.
SilverKite Community Arts, another arts group in Seattle, is offering up free classes via KCLS, the King County Library System. You do not need a KCLS library card. There are many workshops, everything from writing to painting and special senior options. There are others, too, from kite making to origami. […]
I have been learning about María Grever, a Mexican singer and songwriter, thanks to Google. Often to celebrate a person or holiday, Google has an artist design an image, what is called a doodle, and highlights it on their main search page. Sometimes these are region or country specific. I […]
ACROSS SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST A photographer has trekked more than 40,000 miles across Siberia and the Far East in Russia capturing the faces of vanishing ancient cultures with his camera. “My life is my travels, or better, wanderings, since I spend most of the time on the road. […]
Time to share what I've been working on for the past couple months: a visual search engine called Same Energy. It's early stages but you can try the beta here: https://t.co/VhZ4ylwp2g pic.twitter.com/r1tHIfenYk — Jacob Jackson (@jbfja) February 4, 2021 Or go there directly, same.energy.
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou
A news story out of Cleveland, Ohio about an artist and her mural about slavery and the Underground Railroad.
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