A to Z Challenge 2012: P is for Pennsylvania And 18 Feet of William Penn at the State Museum
April 18, 2012 By 3 Comments
Wordless Wednesday: Erosion by Helen Mirkil at Water Gallery, Lansdale, PA
March 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
Water Gallery: Drawn to the Dance Opening Reception March 24th, noon-7:00pm More Wordless Here.
Dora Ficher and What the Bees Told Her: Vibrant Encaustic Art
January 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
It is serendipity to discover an artist online who turns out to live in my part of the world! The art of Dora Ficher compels me with the color and texture and vibrant energy, almost buzzing with the bees that bring forth the medium of encaustic, beeswax. Recently, I checked a book out [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Silver Tanks and Moon by Arthur Dove
November 30, 2011 By 8 Comments
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Wordless Wednesday: Bountiful Harvest of Ironwork by Samuel Yellin
November 23, 2011 By 8 Comments
More Wordless Here. The Wrought Iron Imagination of Samuel Yellin.
Wordless Wednesday: Drinking Fountain at Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
September 7, 2011 By 10 Comments
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Magic Inside: Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door, and a Tool Set for a Girl
September 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
Imagine coming upon this door! What world of the imagination did it come from and were does it lead? Stratoz and I were at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA this weekend, and amid the Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings we saw Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door and Surround. I sat down on a bench [...]
A Sense of Place: Photographs by Paul Grecian and Oils by Materese Roche, Artists’ Gallery Lambertville, NJ
August 15, 2011 By 3 Comments
A Sense of Place featuring: Paul Grecian and Materese Roche Artists’ Gallery, Lambertville, NJ This show runs from August 5, 2011 until September 4, 2011 Stratoz and I had the pleasure of attending the opening of A Sense of Place, featuring the work of our friend, photographer Paul Grecian, and landscape paintings by Materese [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Violin in the Sky from Helmuth Keller & Sons Violinmakers, Philadelphia
August 10, 2011 By 18 Comments
More Wordless Here. Over at Stratoz: Wordless Wednesday an Roycroft Wisdom Helmuth Keller & Sons
My Life as a Soda Jerk and Some Art Tile and Duke Ellington for Good Measure
May 15, 2011 By 6 Comments
A little known fact about my biography is that I was a soda jerk for the 1986/87 school year at community college, at Kostas Drugstore in Bethlehem, PA, across the street from Liberty High School. I recently came across the book Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains by Anne Cooper Funderburg, which brought back [...]
