My Monday afternoon Methods professor, the eminently esteem-able Dr. Eric Engdahl, gave me and my art cohorts an assignment last week – to create a work inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. I hadn’t even heard of Andy Goldsworthy before last week but I’m so glad I know who he is now. I’m also grateful [...]

Yesterday I returned from Ashland where I spent a long weekend and had the extreme pleasure of seeing The Merchant of Venice outdoors, on the Elizabethan stage – a first for me. It was wonderful and the weather was perfect. While strictly verboten, I was able to quickly snap a photo of the stage just [...]

About a week ago I was sitting in Peets (even though I have since given up coffee) when I happened across this little article in the San Francisco Chronicle. As luck would have it, my friend, Marie and I just happened to be driving down MLK on Sunday when I spotted the “T” cozy and [...]

The best part about Chicago was, of course, the Art Institute. What a collection! I couldn’t believe the paintings that I was actually seeing up close and in person. Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir, Latrec, Hopper, Magritte…to name just a few. And throughout the museum were school children, on field trips, being exposed to this magnificent artwork [...]