Lara NeriSep 20, 20193 minWhat is the value in abstract art?This week I took my 7th and 8th grade art students to visit the Modern art museum in Fort Worth. There were a lot of comments such as:...
Lara NeriAug 11, 20192 min3 reasons to visit the Smithsonian American Art MuseumDespite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the...
Lara NeriJun 13, 20195 minMy favorite Russian MurdererMy husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s...
Lara NeriApr 11, 20195 minFlowery Sunday in ConstantinopleFlowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...
Lara NeriFeb 28, 20193 minWill "Beauty save the world"?I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...
Lara NeriJan 17, 20182 mintea & tiny emperorsThis past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of...
Lara NeriJul 26, 20162 minart camps: pursuing Beauty togetherTwo intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...
Lara NeriJul 6, 20162 miniconography: window to the DivineI have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...
Lara NeriJul 5, 20161 minlove despite uglinessToday at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...
Lara NeriJun 22, 20161 minrebirth & regeneration: the image of the snakeToday in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...
Lara NeriJun 15, 20162 minthe iconography of faerytalesWith the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed....
Lara NeriJun 8, 20161 minbeauty & simplicityThe Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...
Lara NeriJun 3, 20161 minenjoy an art museum todayNow that school is out, many parents are looking for interesting, fun alternatives to sitting around at home watching their children...
Lara NeriFeb 12, 20162 minWhy come to an Akathist Art Girls' Night Out workshop?In these times, in our country, many women live isolated lives. Mothers feel societal pressure to do everything themselves - the cooking,...