Last month, on February 17, 2003, Path With Art hosted a screening of the film, “Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts” at the SIFF Film Center. There was a full house for the one-hour-long film, followed by a robust  Q&A with the filmmaker Dru Holly, and three representatives from the […]

FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES“IT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T come as a surprise that Ella Shepard Bush got lost in the fogs of art history. The same has happened to many other women artists, before and since. But in her day, Miss Bush — as she was always known — was at the […]

Everyday when I wake up, the first thing I see when open the curtains of my balcony door, I see a certain mural. This mural is very hard to miss because it takes up the side of three steel-framed, yellow brick buildings, the primary building being five-and-half stories tall. This […]

“The Color of Freedom” by Michael J. O’ConnellA Soldier’s Perspective on the American Revolution Over us did break the April sun, warmth penetrating the depths of our cold, miserable existence. Months have seemed to drift, no rush by like the great Father Time tossing sand into the gale. The ache […]

A great, little piece from Smithsonian Magazine on quilting, with a video and links for learning more, including the National Quilt Collection.

I love ships. This is the Lady Washington. How about a Path with Art field trip! We can do some painting on the open seas. I can dream, can’t I?

AN EXHIBITION IN DUBLIN, IRELAND From building hospitals to caring for the homeless, these are the untold stories of the wives of the men who governed Ireland before independence from Britain. Portraits of the women are on exhibit at Dublin Castle.

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

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 […]