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January 22, 2014

Making Magic with Snowflakes

Team USA Snow Sculptors return next week to work their winter magic for their 24th year at the Woodson Art Museum. To those of us who’ve bundled up and toiled away to create simple snowballs packed and stacked into rudimentary...
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January 15, 2014

Five Thousand and Counting

5,450 . . . 5,451 . . . 5,452 . . . slowly, sheet-by-sheet, I am documenting a vast collection of pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, and ink drawings. The artist, Don Richard Eckelberry, considered this resource his “Fort Knox.” *...
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January 8, 2014

Treasuring Memories

Holidays often are difficult for anyone who’s experienced the death of a loved one. Sometimes people find holidays, anniversaries, and birthdays can cause a resurgence of grief or feelings of loss. These are the reasons the Treasuring Memories program was...
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December 31, 2013

A Year in Review

In my role scheduling upcoming exhibitions at the Woodson Art Museum, I’m always looking ahead. It’s fun to look back, too, because 2013 was such a good year for the Museum. We had a terrific and varied lineup of exhibitions...
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December 24, 2013

Wanted: Two Left Shoes

By Kathy Kelsey Foley, director Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, when you combine a holiday potluck lunch, white-elephant gift exchange, and the Woodson Art Museum staff, you don’t know what you’ll get! Our fun-loving and creative team came together...
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December 18, 2013

Finding Spaces for Growing Up

Elementary and middle-school years are tough – filled with identity confusion, hormones, and self-doubt. What are our skills? Interests? Priorities? These questions may take a lifetime to answer, but I found myself addressing them, at a young age, at museums....
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