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NPR: From Microscopes to Large-Scale Sculpture
I can remember watching the movie “Fantastic Voyage” and thinking that this journey would never be truly possible and the folks who designed the sets had incredible imaginations. Enter Kendall Buster. She was inspired by that movie… inspired to a point where she took up the study of microbiology and art.
In today’s Site of the Day, National Public Radio makes the connection between art and science by exploring Kendalls sculptures. There is a great audio file interview with microbiologist-turned-artist Kendall Buster. Buster uses the images she sees through a microscope as inspiration to create her monumental sculptures, which can be walked through and experienced as three-dimensional worlds. Now THAT is truly a fantastic voyage!
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ArtDaily
The richly illustrated ArtDaily publishes art world news, with special emphasis on what is going on at leading art museums, galleries, and auction houses around the world. Find your city or museum and see what they have going on! Other entertaining areas in this Site of the Day include the PhotoGalleries and ArtDaily puzzles.
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Huntington Library: ArtWonders
Can portraits talk? What’s in a landscape? How do artists make furniture?
ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience. This interaction helps students learn how to find the story behind the work of art – now that is what wondering should be about! Check out the teachers section in today’s Site of the Day for some fantastic ideas on how to use art in the classroom.
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The History Teacher: A Lasting Impressionism
Hooray for History!
Check out this National History Day Competition Winner from a Christian School in Ada, Michigan about the history of Impressionism–today’s netTrekker Site of the Day.
Inspiring illustrations include a series from Monet of Haystacks in different seasons. The author also nicely points out some of the nuances and aesthetics specific to the Impressionist era in contract to other art traditions.
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