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Saturday Newsletter: August 31, 2019

“Bird in the Clouds” Photograph by Hannah Parker, 13 (Burlington, VT), published in Stone Soup Magazine, May 2019. A note from Emma Wood As a teacher of literature, I am constantly thinking of new ways to categorize ways of writing, so that I can say to my students, “Poetry is this,” and “Fiction is that.” Since I love to […]

Guest Post: No Boundaries in Art

by Sarah Lynn “No Boundaries” is exploding with color, something I particularly love in artworks. The blues, purples, and greens of the piece are relaxing and seem to flow in and around the image, while the peaches, yellows, and reds of the picture break up the scene in a way that only enhances its beauty. […]

Documenting history in children’s art: Egypt in the late 1970s

We at the Children’s Art Foundation were very lucky to be given these extraordinary felt pen drawings by the Egyptian government in the late 1970s. Besides being unusually strong works of children’s art most of them depict a day in history that still resonates: the visit by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Israel in 1977 to negotiate […]