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"It's March and that means two things: taxes and butterflies!"

Animated Events: Butterflies are Blooming, part 1 It's March and that means two things: taxes and butterflies! One of the things that I teach my students during my end-of-semester profession...

So I'm posting this on the blog a little earlier than I normally would. Hoping that it'll give everyone a couple extra weeks to get to the Dragon Forest event at the Detroit Zoo.

Animated Events: Dragon Forest at the Detroit Zoo Dragon Forest at the Detroit Zoo So I'm posting this on the blog a little earlier than I normally would. Hoping that it'll give everyone a c...

I gotta say, I know some great people. My friend Oren sent me a message on Facebook about an event in Kalamazoo that slipped under my radar. At the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, they brought in a special exhibit on Ray Harryhausen.

This production was a collection of movie posters from films he worked on as well as notes, storyboards, drawings, sculptures, and models he had produced over the course of his career.

Animated Events: Ray Harryhausen in Kalamazoo I gotta say, I know some great people. My friend Oren sent me a message on Facebook about an event in Kalamazoo that slipped under my radar....

"I have to wonder, five-hundred years from now, will people even know about all the art we created in the late 20th/early 21st Century? Or will there be this huge cultural gap where art was being produced in physical format up until the 1980's and then it largely ceased..."

Animated Thoughts: Art Comes in Many Forms, pt. 6 - the "end of year" edition I had hoped to end the old year and begin the new with some art and peaceful introspection. The Flint Institute of Arts did not disappoint. ...