Thomas Bewick was the finest of all English practicioners of wood engraving and was the first person to make the work of the illustrator as…
Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing interest — indeed, something of a movement — in teaching young people to use photography as…
When Mohieddin Ellabbad was a boy growing up in Cairo, he dreamed of becoming a streetcar conductor — driving his imposing, clattering machine down the…
I’m thinking about what the beach meant to me as a kid. Let’s say the most important thing first. The beach is what a sand…
It’s Youth Art Month, and, while he was visiting schools in our area, we managed to find a quiet place to speak with Frank Remkiewicz,…
The well-known quilt artist Adrienne Yorinks has a remarkable new book out called Quilt of States. Recess commentator Susan Raab spoke with Ms. Yorinks about the…
A trip to the beach wouldn’t be the same without playing in the sand. Whether you want to build the perfect sand castle, make the…
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s Seen Art? is one of the newest examples of what The New York Museum of Modern Art publishes for children. Seen Art? is, in…
A fairy tale opened on Broadway in late October and you were just listening to the title character, “Brooklyn,” inviting the audience into an urban fable performed by a homeless theater troupe.
You or perhaps your children may have seen or heard of a mandala without quite knowing what the rich and vivid design is – and…