I’ve been working on a plastic bottle cap art project for and with my son’s class for the annual school auction. I’ve never done one of these before, so I had a lot to learn before getting the kids together to place the bottle caps on the design. I couldn’t find a comprehensive tutorial anywhere, […]
STEM to STEAM: There’s More Than One Kind of Smart
Last week, my kids celebrated the last day of school. I vacillate between gratitude and sadness. I’m grateful we made it safely through another year, but sadly it all goes so fast. I regret that I have to focus so much energy on making a living that I’m often not able to make the life […]
Mother of August Reiger Paints Stunning Portraits of Missing Son, Self
August Reiger is still missing. As of July 28, 2021, August Reiger is still missing. Nixie Adams wrote about him in February 2021 in a post on Medium titled, “Valedictorian Disappears on Hike in Ecuador — The Mysterious Case of 18-Year-Old August Reiger.” “The brilliant poppy flaunts her head Amidst the ripening grain, And adds […]
How To Crack the Code On Your Own Life
Bletchley Park and Code-Breaking In August 1938, a group of men showed up to a Victorian Gothic mansion in the town of Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. It was a couple of weeks after the Glorious Twelfth, the start of hunting season in England. Ten bucks say they were all wearing tweed knickers and jolly caps, […]
Public Funding for the Arts (This art was made for you and me.)
[KOSU Commentary] This commentary is about public funding for the arts. It aired on KOSU in 2012. One of the first songs I ever learned was This Land Is Your Land. My father taught it to me. His mother, Bethel, my grandma, was part of Woody Guthrie’s family tree. She was his first cousin. She […]
John Johansen and the OKC Children’s Museum
Meet me at the wrecking ball. Wear something pretty and white. —Neil Young Look at the glorious architectural rendering of the Oklahoma City Children’s Museum, a proposal that if funded would ensure the preservation of architect’s John Johansen’s downtown masterpiece. The building, known as Stage Center, flooded in 2010 and is at risk for the […]
Disks on Lincoln Boulevard (Pictures of Public Art in Oklahoma)
Huge Disks on Lincoln Boulevard are Public Art There are four mammoth-size disk planted in soft green berms outside the Office of State Finance in Oklahoma City. They form a quartet of sculptures and serve as a monument to Oklahomans, past and present. Three of the sculptures are earth-cast concrete and bear Oklahoma’s signature red-dirt […]