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In Memory of Miss Ruby

In 1938 Ruby Middleton Forsythe started teaching in a one-room country schoolhouse in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina. The only educational facility open to local African-American young people at the time, the simple one-room schoolhouse was all they had, and it was Ruby’s job was to teach all of the students…

Education

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In Memory of Miss Ruby
In Memory of Miss Ruby
Education

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Dec 21, 2022

Motion and Motive

One of the most widely praised and influential of all modern sculptors, Alexander Calder became world-famous primarily for creating kinetic sculptures, sculptures in which a key element of the composition is movement itself. Innovative and prolific, Calder has been celebrated as a visionary, a pioneering talent, and a key contributor…

Alexander Calder

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Motion and Motive
Motion and Motive
Alexander Calder

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Nov 11, 2022

Portrait of a Pacifist

In 1888, Toyohiko Kagawa was born in Kobe, Japan. His childhood was marred by suffering and grief. When he got older, Kagawa became a Christian, and dedicated himself to serving the poor in the neighborhood where he lived. Kagawa then spent two years in the United States, studying at Princeton…

Washington DC

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Portrait of a Pacifist
Portrait of a Pacifist
Washington DC

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Nov 2, 2022

Sympathy with All Living Things

Emblematic of the art of ancient Egypt are the splendid treasures of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Nubian Monuments of Abu Simbel, the huge stone sculptures which arise as if from the desert itself, some of them wearing human faces, at once serene and uncanny…

Art

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Sympathy with All Living Things
Sympathy with All Living Things
Art

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Oct 29, 2021

The Last Gargoyle Carver

In 1967, when my father, Frederick (“Rick”) Hart took a job as a clerk in the mail room at Washington National Cathedral, he did so primarily for the purpose of pestering the Cathedral’s master stone carver, Roger Morigi. Back then, Rick was an aspiring sculptor. He wanted Morigi to take…

Washington DC

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The Last Gargoyle Carver
The Last Gargoyle Carver
Washington DC

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Jul 22, 2021

As Long as the Waters Flow

“I had learned a great deal about my tribal customs from my father and my mother, and the more I learned the more I wanted to put it down on canvas. That’s pretty much how it started.” — Allan Houser Allan Houser was born Allan Capron Haozous. His family name…

Art

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As Long as the Waters Flow
As Long as the Waters Flow
Art

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May 28, 2021

Wall of Martyrs

PARIS, 1871 — In the aftermath of the Prussian invasion of France, and the collapse of the Second Empire, two rival governments arise. One of them is the Paris Commune. Its headquarters: the city streets, the blazing foundry of radical democracy. …

Paris

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Wall of Martyrs
Wall of Martyrs
Paris

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May 1, 2021

A Synthesis of Styles

Francisco Zúñiga’s father was a sculptor, the creator of hundreds of religious sculptures. Like many of his siblings, Zúñiga took classes in drawing, and around the age of sixteen, he began training as a sculptor in his father’s workshop. Zúñiga grew up in San José, Costa Rica. As he got…

Costa Rica

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A Synthesis of Styles
A Synthesis of Styles
Costa Rica

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Apr 28, 2021

Portrait of a President

On December 12, 1952, disaster struck Chalk River Laboratories in Canada. A problem with the experimental NRX reactor caused a partial meltdown. The reactor had been seriously damaged by a hydrogen explosion, and thousands upon thousands of gallons of radioactive water were flooding into the reactor building’s basement. A major…

President Carter

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Portrait of a President
Portrait of a President
President Carter

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Apr 27, 2021

The Human Volcano

In 1965, my father, Frederick Hart, worked at the Gayety Theater in Washington, D.C., a famous burlesque theater. As a struggling artist, at the age of twenty-two, he performed fire tricks on stage. And then, while performing a fire-eating trick, my father burned his mouth severely. …

Performance Art

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The Human Volcano
The Human Volcano
Performance Art

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