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October 6, 2026

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Doubles Grants for Artists to Support the City’s Creative Culture

Embed from Getty Images New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is increasing financial support for the artists who help shape the city’s cultural landscape. For the first time in nearly 20 years, city-funded grants for individual artists and small nonprofits will double from $5,000 to up to $10,000. The increase will support artists across all five boroughs, including painters, filmmakers, dancers, writers, musicians, and other creatives.

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October 6, 2026

Why Learning To Draw the Skull Is the Key To Perfecting Your Portraiture

You’ve done it—you’ve successfully drawn the eyes, nose, and mouth. But something still isn’t right with your portrait. It doesn’t look like your subject. In this case, the problem isn’t with your facial features. It’s what’s underneath the skin. When trying to perfect portraiture, we often focus on drawing the defining features, but it’s vital to understand skeletal structure and how it affects the rest of the face.

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October 4, 2026

Struggling Families in Rwanda Get Chickens Through a Social Program and Their Lives Are Changed

The phrase, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime,” could very well describe a successful social program in Ngororero, Rwanda. But rather than fish, the protagonists of this story are other animals. As part of the Second Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Food Security Project (SAIP II), vulnerable families with small children received four chickens.

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