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: “Anyone could do that,...

Despite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the museums along the Nation...

My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener and...

Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and a couple centuries b...

I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal conviction, but it is importan...

This past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of Iconography in June, but als...

Two 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 so that I could focus...

I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a deep appreciation fo...

Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by love. When Beauty’s...

Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who transforms himself into a sn...

With the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed. Iconographers, in need of work...

The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The Japanese culture is ...

Now that school is out, many parents are looking for interesting, fun alternatives to sitting around at home watching their children fight over toys they wer...

In these times, in our country, many women live isolated lives. Mothers feel societal pressure to do everything themselves - the cooking, the cleaning, the h...