Creating the Arts for God
Hate evil, you who love the Lord, Who watches over the souls of His godly ones; He saves them from the hand of the wicked. Light is sown like seed for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart. Be joyful in the…
Category Learning Through the Arts
Enjoying the Stroke, Stroke, Stroke
“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” as the old saying goes. Sometimes, though, we wish it could be. Well, maybe not Rome, but we do want things we’d like to accomplish to happen much faster than they do. Sometimes we…
The Pool of Bethesda
David Roberts was born in Scotland in 1796 (to give some historic context, that’s the year Tennessee became the 16th state). Roberts was the son of a cobbler. In his teens, he was apprenticed to a house painter. At age…
Success in Her 70s
I love that Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book at age 65. Anna Mary Robertson was another American woman who gained fame late in life. She was well-known when I was a child and I was an admirer of…
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing for Him.
I love the art of Norman Rockwell. I love that he painted moments from American life: Thanksgiving dinner with the family, Boy Scouts praying at their campsite, Mother’s arms outstretched when her son comes back from war. Rockwell painted scenes…
Artist Eric Carle and His Mama
Yesterday I went on a field trip with one of our daughters and four of our grandchildren. We visited the Frist Art Museum in Nashville to see the Eric Carle’s Picture Books exhibit. The exhibit celebrates 50 years of The…