El Camino College will be holding a reception on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. showcasing the current exhibit display at the El Camino Art Gallery – Kieva Campbell: A Tribute to April Savino, the ...

“My hope is that I’ll get to that place where I am very successful, and I am a household name, and I am influencing other people like I’ve been influenced,” artist Angela Roe told me while we sat ...

The work of Doris Lee, a painter known for her Depression-era murals and depictions of everyday life, will be on exhibit Sept. 26-Jan. 9 in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg.

Earlier this week I received a beautiful, handmade holiday card from “The Candy Man,” the inmate who paints with M & M’s. [see the blog post “The Candy Man: A Prisoner Paints with Delectable Materials ...

Morris Dickstein's new cultural history of the Great Depression, called Dancing in the Dark, is one of those "everything but the kitchen sink" kind of books — except in this case the kitchen sink does ...

Earlier this year, Lake View resident Pamela Monaco read about a debate dividing the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. Three schools there were in the process of removing government-funded Depression-era ...

Since ancient Greece, healers have prescribed art to aid those facing mental challenges. Today, the practice is a precisely honed craft used by credentialed professionals to help people suffering from ...

There is a trope of the melancholic artist giving the impression that to access beauty in our minds, we must pass through darkness. Some creatives fear that treatment for depression will banish this ...

I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree… A tree that may in Summer wear / A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; / Who intimately lives with rain. / Poems are ...

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...