The two artists featured in the current Healing Arts exhibit at the Owatonna Hospital are John C. Niemi and Linda Day. In a previous post I shared Niemi’s landscapes and butterflies. This post will focus on “Linda Day Clay.” As you will see, Linda Day has a very creative and fun approach to clay. This…
Now that the Owatonna Hospital is allowing visitors again after the pandemic, I had a chance to see the current exhibit in their Healing Arts program. The exhibit features two artists, Linda Day and John C. Niemi. In this post we take a look at Niemi’s landscapes and butterflies. Niemi’s love of color is evident…
One of the largest and longest-lasting European empires, the Spanish realms spanned from South Asia to South America and lasted nearly 500 years. The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation is committed to promoting the art of the Spanish Americas and includes works from present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This Virgin and Child is attributed…
The basic idea behind this motiff is that, just as grapes are crushed in a winepress to produce wine, Jesus was crushed on the cross outside the city of Jerusalem to erase all of God the Father’s wrath because of our sins. Jesus is not nailed to the cross. Instead the cross lays on Jesus’…
Even though Art in Bloom was the main attraction during our last visit to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, it’s impossible not to notice the other incredible art that is on display. Here’s what I found when I wasn’t looking at the flowers. Pretty Pretty 3 and details by Gio Swaby
We have a long way to go to get to normal in dealing with the pandemic. A recent visit to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City gave me a small sense of normal and a good taste of what art lovers like me have been missing. As I shared in a post…
While going through some old photos recently I came across the photos I had taken at a Picasso exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City several years ago. I know not everyone appreciates Picasso’s work but I think these works can help us through this difficult time. “Bust of a Man Writing”…
Over a year ago I posted about the artwork of Owatonna High School students at the Owatanna Arts Center. Here is a video compilation of that artwork: I think the piece entitled, Kobe Bryant by Caedon McCartney is especially poignant in view of Kobe’s untimely passing earlier this year.
The last segment of the video “Our Created Stars and Galaxies”, produced by the Creation Astronomy ministry, features a series of statements demonstrating the profoundly different worldviews of some scientists and the Bible. First there is this quote from scientist Steven Weinberg in 1993: “It is very hard to realize that this all is just…
The Des Moines Art Center is an impressive museum featuring buildings designed by some of the most well-known architects of the 20th century; Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei and Richard Meier. As these photos show, the art isn’t too bad either. “Rescue 2013” by Nick Cave “Nude Study for the Burghers of Calais: Pierre de…
Mirror Neurons 