Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Choosing Art for Your Home with Amanda Goetze
Get help choosing art for your home with these expert tips from Amanda Goetze of Goetze Art & Design! I believe a room is unfinished without beautiful, captivating art on the walls. In fact, I’m decidedly in the “no blank walls” fan club. How about you? Choosing art for your home in many ways is…
Read MoreA Botanical Gallery Wall in the Living Room
Amping up the grandmillennial style in my living room with a botanical gallery wall using antique camellia engravings and gold Granby frames from Frame It Easy! Read on for the before and after photos and tips to mat and frame valuable prints. Penderandpeony.com uses affiliate links. Products gifted by Frame It Easy in exchange for…
Read MoreThe Simple Way to Frame a Painting with Offset Clips
5 easy steps to frame a painting on canvas using offset clips and a back-loading frame. You’ve found the perfect painting for your wall after hunting countless estate sales, thrifts, and galleries. It has eye catching colors and a subject that speaks to you! The only drawback…it’s un-framed. Don’t let that hiccup stop you from…
Read MoreCatherine Wiley at the KMA
Wander the galleries of the Knoxville Museum of Art and feel inspired by the incandescent paintings of Catherine Wiley with their vivid colors and serene narratives. While spring time blossoms and warming temps maybe luring us out of doors, use the next dreary day to head to the Knoxville Art Museum and see the incandescent…
Read MoreExpert Tips on Packing and Moving Valuables
Packing and moving valuables is stressful! Learn the right way to wrap and secure silver, antique furniture, ceramics, glass, and 2-D art with these tips and tricks. Knee deep in corrugate, tape, and tissue? Pulling your hair out because you just can’t figure out the best way to pack Grandmother’s silver or your wedding china?…
Read MoreThe River Arts District, Asheville
Even on a sweltering hot afternoon, a kinetic, creative energy permeates the air in Asheville’s River Arts District. Artists are busy at work in their studios with fans buzzing and music playing, while tourists and locals alike are sauntering the streets, turning here and there to enter different industrial brick buildings. They are on a…
Read MoreThe Art Experience: Contemplative or Energized?
Art Museums are grappling with a “plugged in” public obsessed with technology and having an “experience.” How do museums satisfy this public without falling into the entertainment trap? Is social practice art a key solution to avoiding this trap? Since the 1970’s museums have more significantly changed their focus as repositories for cultural treasures to…
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