The natural world has always been, and continues to be, an inspiration for many artists. Indeed, even the de Young Museum in San Francisco typically holds their Bouquets to Art event in late spring as an celebration of the natural world’s influence on artwork. And as we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the museum’s ability to hold the event. | Art Docent Program
In honor of Black History Month, we’re celebrating one of the country’s most prolific and well-known artists: Jacob Lawrence!| Art Docent Program
As we all know, many art museums have limited their visiting hours due to the pandemic. Which, for a lot of us, means that we haven’t stopped by our local and/or favorite art museum for a normal lengthy visit in some time, or have necessarily been able to support them through our admission fees or gift shop purchases. However, there’s a silver lining as we head into the holiday season: many museum shops have worked hard to create face masks featuring some of their masterpieces. You heard ...| Art Docent Program
If you’ve been paying attention to the U.S. Postal Service lately–and you likely have been–you might have noticed some special-edition forever stamps available for purchase featuring artwork by an artist named Ruth Asawa. And if you’re like the majority of people, you likely don’t know much about this artist–something we’re hoping to change with our short and sweet artist spotlight today!| Art Docent Program
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been stuck inside scrolling in lieu of visiting a museum or gallery while things near us are still shut down. Since none of us seem to be headed to a museum or gallery anytime soon, here is a short list of a few social media accounts we’ve been following to get our art fix that we wanted to share.| Art Docent Program
As we all know, due to the current global health crisis, most of us are either unable to (or don’t want to) go out to our favorite places–even though a lot of us now have some free time to do so. Which is why the Art Docent Program blog is taking you on an art-historical journey to some of your favorite places this summer! Join us as we look at art focused on places like the beach, the theater, and other places we can’t all make it to at this time.| Art Docent Program
As we all know, due to the current global health crisis, most of us are either unable to (or don’t want to) go out to our favorite places–even though a lot of us now have some free time to do so. Which is why the Art Docent Program blog is taking you on an art-historical journey to some of your favorite places this summer! Join us as we look at art focused on places like the beach, the theater, and other places we can’t all make it to at this time.| Art Docent Program
As we all know, due to the current global health crisis, most of us are either unable to (or don’t want to) go out to our favorite places–even though a lot of us now have some free time to do so. Which is why the Art Docent Program blog is taking you on an art-historical journey to some of your favorite places this summer! Join us as we look at art focused on places like the beach, the theater, and other places we can’t all make it to at this time.| Art Docent Program
As we all know, due to the current global health crisis, most of us are either unable to (or don’t want to) go out to our favorite places–even though a lot of us now have some free time to do so. Which is why the Art Docent Program blog is taking you on an art-historical journey to some of your favorite places this summer! Join us as we look at art focused on places like the beach, the theater, and other places we can’t all make it to at this time.| Art Docent Program