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LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition

Posted in Art, Community, Education, History, Musings on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This summer the featured exhibition at the National Building Museum is, LEGOs!!                                                                                       [...]

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Summer in the City…

Posted in Art, Community, Performing Arts on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Isn’t complete without the invasion of FRINGE. What’s FRINGE? well it’s a worldwide performing arts festival that happens in 24 states and 60 countries throughout the year. (see the full list of festivals in the US HERE) Fringe Festivals feature new, innovate work by both established theatre artists and folks just starting out. There are [...]

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Eye of the Beholder

Posted in Art, tagged on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My iPhone pics don’t do justice to all of the great artwork that fills the Burke halls and open spaces for the Art Showcase.  So, if you haven’t already, make your way over there this week to look through windows into other beautiful and strange worlds.  Bravo to Maureen, Allen, Lucinda and Cory for helping [...]

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These Boots are Made for…

Posted in Art, Community, tagged , on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

One of the many great things about last month’s auction was all the great artwork that was made by students, staff and parents for the event.  High on the cool quotient was the collection of ‘reconditioned’ cowboy boots – which were done by an assortment of Burke artists.  H/T to Maureen O’ for helping with [...]

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Shredding Guitar

Posted in Art, tagged on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Not sure that Les Paul had this in mind when it comes to playing a Gibson.  I don’t know whether I more enjoyed watching how the definitions of art, music and ornithology get mixed up in this video – or just the simple pleasure of seeing green grass after all this dang snow.

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MS Play students Hard At Work!

Posted in Art, Performing Arts on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

For the past two thursdays, the entire cast of “A Wrinkle In Time” (the middle school play) have been working furiously painting the set, building furniture, creating doors, painting a large mural on the back wall of the theatre, and getting the theatre ready for the show! All of the cast members have had a hand in the [...]

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In the Mail

Posted in Art on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Check out Letterheady – a cool site devoted to letterhead.  You’ll like it.

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Matter of Perspective

Posted in Art, tagged on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Julian Beever is an artist.  Well, there’s more to it than that. His work includes drawing, street art, neurology, politics, humor, etc.  On the ‘surface’ his art is fun.  But it also raises questions about what lies beneath, what it means to see, and the meaning of art – especially when that art disappears in [...]

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