Art

13-Year-Old Artist Creates Hero Award For All To Share With Healthcare Workers On COVID-19 Frontline

wyskApril 28, 2020

Hero Award: Thank you heroes on the frontline…for saving our lives while putting yours on the lineIn a creative show of appreciation for medical profession...

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“Miss Kim” From Museum Of Fine Arts St. Pete Creates Hands-On ‘Art Break’ Series For Little Learners At Home Everywhere

wyskApril 9, 2020

Art museums are a playground for exploration and creativity. In pre-coronavirus times, Kimberlynn Martin, Manager of Education and Youth Programs for the Museu...

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Fact v Fiction: “And The People Stayed Home” Viral Poem By Kitty O’Meara (2020), Not Kathleen O’Mara (1869)

wyskApril 6, 2020

"And the people stayed home." This is the opening line of an untitled poem that’s gone wildly viral. Social media posts shared now 10s of 1,000s of times by pe...

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Dream Big Mural Celebrates Teen Changemaker And Aspiring Astronaut Taylor Richardson

wyskSeptember 12, 2019

Wow! Wow! Wow! This inspiring mural on the Upper Eastside of Jacksonville, Florida was created by some incredible students from James Weldon Johnson, a Duval C...

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Teen Honors Mom In Winning Doodle For Google Illustration

wyskAugust 14, 2019

Congratulations to high school senior Arantza Peña Popo, who was announced as the winner of the US 2019 Doodle for Google national competition.This ye...

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The Woman Who Invented the Modern Concert: Clara Schumann, Master of the Piano

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 24, 2019

In mid-nineteenth century Europe, two colossi of the keyboard crisscrossed the continent, leaving masses of ecstatic fans in their wake, and they could not hav...

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4-Year-Old Picks Out “Boy Craft”, Proves Toy Maker So Wrong By Building HER Own Monster Truck

wyskJune 19, 2019

Meet 4-year-old Norah. She’s a girl who’s really into trucks, dinosaurs, baseball, superheroes, and all things "cool", as she likes to say. Her mom, Jennifer R...

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Mushrooms, Fossils, And A Pen To Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist

Dale DeBakcsyMay 22, 2019

"I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter." In 1893,...

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Botanist, Artist, Nurse, And Teacher: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Western Legacies

Guest ContributorApril 23, 2019

By Wynne Brown - It was most likely a bitter cold December day in 1869 as the wooden side-wheeled steamer churned through the New York City harbor. Sara Plumme...

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