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Charlotte Lewis: A Fine African American Artist
Tomorrow I’ll be posting a Quaker tale for Valentine’s Day, our version of Romeo & Juliet. There are several original illustrations in the story, by an African American artist who deserves much...
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The Art of Fearlessness! Many Events Planned – Including on May 27 at Spring...
Saturday May 27 at Spring Friends Meeting in Snow Camp NC (Details below). It’s a “campaign” of Quaker events linked by a common theme, under the umbrella of the Fellowship of Quakers In the Arts: Here...
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Gina Haspel Marks The Return of “Zero Dark Thirty”— Still Zero; Even Darker
As reports, official and unofficial, have come in about Gina Haspel, the nominee to be the next CIA Director, eerie memories began to seep from the back of my mind. Take, for instance, this passage...
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An Active Shooter in Friends Meeting. Now what?
If you blog about Quakers long enough, you get asked a lot of questions — including some surprises. An emergency instruction folder kept in a slot on the back of dorm room doors at a midwestern...
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Colorism & Daylilies: A Confession
For seventeen years, I lived in the Washington DC area; in fact, inside the Beltway by a few miles. Some misinformed persons think this area is glamorous. I didn’t much care for it. Congress and all...
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Cancel Cops, Cancel ALL Cop Shows, NO Exceptions. And Cancel Quakers Too?
Just read a very striking piece by E. J. Dickson in Rolling Stone. It says the “Cancel Cops Crusade,” in order to root out systemic police racism, killings & impunity, also has to take down the...
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Quaker Statues Have to Go? That’s What George Fox Said . . .
The work of bringing down Calhoun took all one night and most of the next day. [contact-form] 7 So– the City of Charleston wasted no time. After the City Council voted unanimously this week to take...
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A Non-Mystic Report on The Trip I Didn’t Take to Ghent
From The Guardian: “One of the world’s greatest masterpieces, and surely the most stolen piece of art of all time, Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent...
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My Own Homely Cathedral: An Hommage to Claude Monet
Claude Monet Several years ago, while visiting France, I was taken to Rouen and shown the cathedral in their old city square. I was told how the Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) painted...
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Arthur Fink: Quaker Photographer, 74
Friend Arthur Fink, who told acquaintances he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, has passed away. The obituary below is borrowed from the Portland Maine Press-Herald: Noted Peaks Island...
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Free Quaker Music from Songster/Theologian Doug Gwyn: Now Online
Writing Quaker history & theology is not exactly the road to fame and fortune. But a few still take it, and among those of the passing generation, one that I most admire is Douglas Gwyn, who is...
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Will Lucy ALWAYS Snatch Away The Football, Charlie Brown??
AP News: “A Good Man”: Exhibits honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Schulz on 100th BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AND PATRICK ORSAGOS May 27, 2022 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in...
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Hey, Charlie Brown: Will You Ever Kick That Football??
AP News: “A Good Man”: Exhibits honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Schulz on 100th BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AND PATRICK ORSAGOS May 27, 2022 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in...
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Ukraine, War Notes: The End of Euphoria, A Shift in The Odds
Washington Post: Ukraine is running out of ammunition as prospects dim on the battlefield Hopes that Ukraine will be able to reverse Russian gains are fading in the face of superior firepower By...
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Video Treat of the Week: “Song of Myself,” Stanza 5
From the far out West, up against the curling, capricious lip of the Pacific, comes a dispatch from our Coastal Ocean & Fire Correspondent, Mitchell Santine Gould. With it is a stunning animated...
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The Colors of Courage: Underground Russian War Protests:
Art of dissent: How Russians protest the war on Ukraine They risk jail, stigma and fines. But Russian protesters are finding creative ways to get their message out. Washington Post: By Robyn Dixon,...
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Raising American Girls?
I’m not an expert, but I’ve been involved in raising several American Girls: daughters, granddaughters & now great granddaughters. And I hope I’ve learned a thing or two. Here’s one: several of the...
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Monumental, Yes — But Is It Art, Mr. Oldenburg??
The Guardian: Claes Oldenburg Obituary A photo gallery of some of his most memorable works is HERE Pop artist famed for his ‘soft sculptures’ and outsized monuments to everyday objects Charles Darwent...
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New Quaker Arts Journal Issue: “Types & Shadows”
NOTE: I’ve been a member of the Fellowship of Quakers in the arts since the late ’90s. It’s a small, scattered and anarchic network [confirming its Quaker character], which has done a lot with a...
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Guest Post: Profile of A Renegade Quaker Artist – Edward Sorel
[NOTE: Friend Gary Sandman, of Roanoke Meeting in Virginia, has long been collecting and distributing short articles about artists and performers who are Quaker, or Quaker adjacent. His latest profile...
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