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Welcome to the information age, where nearly everyone has access — literally at their fingertips — to more knowledge than has ever been available to an individual. A new way to view art, in the privacy of one’s own home, is a happy byproduct of this information explosion. But is this new ability to view […]
read more →Barbara Shilo (1923-2015) left an exceptional legacy behind, including the historic exhibit she created called Silent Voices Speak, a depiction of the Nazi Holocaust in 16 full color images. Silent Voices Speak celebrated its 15th Anniversary on April 16, 2016, and with a little help from POBA is now permanently located at The Magnes Collection […]
read more →Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940-2015) lived in Columbus, Ohio. Aminah created a style that defies customary artistic categories by blending the folk traditions she learned as a child from her parents and the formal training she received in art school, equally informed by her wide travels, deep research and unbounded curiosity. Most profoundly, she believed […]
read more →Aspen NPR station KAJX reporter, Patrick Fort, reported on the roots of POBA – how the seed for this remarkable site emerged from the grief and love of Sallie Bernard for her deceased son and artist, Jamie, and how out of the dark of her deep grief came her uplifting collaboration to create a place […]
read more →Joanne Kesten, appraiser and art historian sheds light for POBA on the age-old tradition of the art of the “selfie“ – those digital or physical self-representations that have always led humankind to capture our own images for posterity. But is there a difference between a “selfie” and a “self-portrait”? Here are Joann’s thoughts on this […]
read more →Shelley Berc, Director of the Creativity Workshop writes on the gifts that amateurs – whose eyes seek beauty and whose hands itch to make something wonderful. Leonardo da Vinci claimed he saw all his paintings in the humidity stains on his walls before ever lifting his brush. Herman Melville stared at Mount Greylock every day […]
read more →POBA appraisal expert and Board member, Jane Willis, shares her thoughts on the why / what/ how of appraisals, beginning with her definition: “An appraisal is technically no more than a statement of monetary value. Typically, it is a formal written evaluation of objects that includes both a full description of the object and a […]
read more →As part of a project of the Art of Letter Writing, POBA became engaged in cataloging and archiving a collection of nearly 1100 WWII wartime letters – the Schulman Collection – that reveal a remarkable personal romance and an exceptional but unexpected window on history that stretches across the US to the Buchenwald camp, other […]
read more →Meredith Melnick, Huffington Post editor, writes in praise of intrinsic motivation: For four years in her early life, the novelist Nell Zink worked as a bricklayer and told The New Yorker it was “more valuable to my intellectual life than my entire college career.” During this time, she taught herself French and wrote fiction without any particular […]
read more →Nancy Webb was a multifaceted artist, best known for creating sculptures, both large and small. Adding to POBA’s displays of her smallest sculptures, we now can see a collection of her table top sculptural figures – skulls, horses, helmets, babies, and fantastical figures – in a range of media including wood and resin, bronze, stone […]
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