Art History
January 15, 2018

Google’s Free Museum App Will Match You With Your Famous Art Doppelgänger

In the age of social media, how we interact with art is constantly being redefined for our increasingly connected world. Museum Snapchats and memes have people reimagining paintings and sculptures as if they existed in our world, with both brilliant and silly results. The Google Arts and Culture app is one of the latest ways that you can enjoy art history through technology.

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Art
January 13, 2018

Textile Artist Hand-Crafts Fuzzy Felted Animals Made From Wool

Philadelphia-based textile artist Holly Guertin (aka Ernie and Irene) creates three-dimensional, felted animal wall hangings. Using a needle and wool, the fiber art pieces depict portraits of fluffy creatures such as llamas, sheep, and alpacas, that look perfectly at home mounted on a bed of fuzzy felt. The tangible “meaningful pieces for beautiful spaces” are ready-to-hang with loops at the back of each piece. Guertin uses a combination of two techniques to hand-craft each piece.

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Animals
January 12, 2018

Costume Designer Repairs Broken Wing of Butterfly, Makes It Look Like It Was Never Injured

Costume designer Romy McCloskey recently used the skills the precision work of her hand embroidery and embellishments to help save the life of an injured Monarch butterfly. Raising and releasing these beautiful creatures is a pastime that many have taken up in an effort to save the species, which is decreasing in population. McCloskey recently began her involvement with Monarchs after finding a few caterpillars in her yard this past autumn.

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