Sculpture
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The Walker Art Center-A Minneapolis Jaunt
Yesterday, my daughters and I headed to Minneapolis for a quick tour of the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The image of the Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg has become an unofficial symbol for Minneapolis since it’s installation in 1988. Most of the Walker Center was closed for reconstruction, leaving just a…
Creativity
Creative Inspiration
If you have three minutes to spare today, I think you will enjoy this very short video about a Dutch artist named Theo Jansen. Amazing! (Bonus: the setting is a sunny, quiet beach.) Theo Jansen: Kinetic Sculpture You might also like: Franconcia Sculpture Park The Witch of Fox Point I The Witch of Fox…
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Terracotta Warriors
Last week, I went with a friend to see the Terra Cotta Warriors at the Minneapolis Museum of Arts. This terra-cotta army of the First Emperor of China (c. 220 BC) is considered one of the most spectacular finds in archaeology. In 1974, a farmer -seeking to build a new well- discovered a pit filled…
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Selective Focus-A Photo Tip
On a recent jaunt to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, I snapped this photo of the marble sculpture, Ganymede and the Eagle. In the above photo, the viewer is drawn into the “story” of the cupbearer and the eagle (Zeus in eagle form). In the next photo, (taken by happy accident) the focal point was…
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Franconia Sculpture Park
While my twins were home on their college fall break, we took a jaunt to the Franconia Sculpture Park–15 miles north of Stillwater, Minnesota. The park hosts a rotating collection of contemporary sculptures… all set in a rural, prairie park… The sculpture below reminds of Dorothy’s house from The Wizard of Oz… It never ceases…
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The Witch of Fox Point
Mary Nohl was known as The Witch of Fox Point…but was she a witch? Did she really kill her husband and child and bury them under the stone sculptures in her beach front yard? Why did she surround herself with barbed wire fence and creepy stone heads? Mary Nohl was born in 1914 to Leo…
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A Witch’s House–Near Milwaukee
There’s a witch’s house on Beach Drive- in a suburb of Milwaukee. We have friends…who know someone… whose cousin… saw her… Well, I never saw The Witch, but when my kids were young, one of their favorite things to do was to take a drive to see her house! Once in a while, on a…
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Lori Kennedy
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