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    Visions of Affordable Artwork by Guest Bloggest, Truc Trong
    Karen Zupanic
    • 3 days ago
    • 2 min

    Visions of Affordable Artwork by Guest Bloggest, Truc Trong

    American history has been filled with many surprising turns, and art is no exception. Every piece of artwork created has reflected an...
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    Centuries of Stories in Stained Glass as shared by Abigail Sales, Heard-Craig Blogger
    Abigail Sales
    • Apr 11
    • 2 min

    Centuries of Stories in Stained Glass as shared by Abigail Sales, Heard-Craig Blogger

    675AD marked the beginnings of an era with truly enhanced apertures. Evidence of this goes all the way back to the Roman Empire where...
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    A Day Trip to McKinney
    Karen Zupanic
    • Sep 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Day Trip to McKinney

    A few years ago, the City of McKinney was voted the best place to live in America by Money Magazine. Today, it remains a bustling center...
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    Virtual Vintage Piano Hour
    Karen Zupanic
    • Feb 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Virtual Vintage Piano Hour

    In 2020, Musician Tony Stride graced the rooms of the Heard-Craig Center, playing 1920s music to celebrate a simpler, less complex time. ...
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    MIXING THE MALT
    Karen Zupanic
    • Aug 14, 2020
    • 2 min

    MIXING THE MALT

    Six years ago, before everything in the world turned “virtual”, Paige Dashner Long (an international contrabass flute specialist with the...
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    The Ships in Kiel
    Karen Zupanic
    • Aug 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Ships in Kiel

    My favorite Mother/Daughter Art Duo is comprised of mom, Monika Kröemer and daughter, Astrid Kröemer, of Kiel, Germany...
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    Never Too Old to Make a Right Angle Turn
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jul 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Never Too Old to Make a Right Angle Turn

    A Google search of career changes boasts that Actor Harrison Ford was a carpenter (building sets for Director George Lucas) before he had...
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    A Prize Inside
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jul 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Prize Inside

    If you grew up with Cracker Jack boxes, you’ll remember that, amidst the popcorn and peanuts, there was always a prize at the bottom of...
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    Crystals on her Glaze
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Crystals on her Glaze

    The Sumerians used crystals in magic formulas. The Chinese used them in medicine. The Egyptians used crystals in jewelry. New Mexico...
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    Legendary Jazz
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jul 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    Legendary Jazz

    I am a big fan of Alberta Hunter, a 1920’s Jazz and Blues singer/pianist who sang well into her 90’s. In 1971 she taped an interview for...
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    Nature and the Renaissance Man
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jul 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Nature and the Renaissance Man

    Google defines the term “Renaissance Man” as an intelligent, knowledgeable, artistic person……....a person with many, many talents. Enter...
    72 views0 comments
    Electric Erasers & Fabric - - See the World; Savor the Differences
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jun 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Electric Erasers & Fabric - - See the World; Savor the Differences

    An artist is inspired by so many different things - - by people, landscapes, environment, culture....the choices are infinite. But when...
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    Sent from my Smith-Corona, circa 1978.
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jun 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Sent from my Smith-Corona, circa 1978.

    1978 was a great year in my life, so I get a big smile on my face when our museum receives a note from Artist Lynne Weinberger because...
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    Equissage to Fine Art
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Equissage to Fine Art

    The Fairgrounds in Dayton, Ohio provided a 365-day drawing smorgasbord for Artist Helen Bailey (www.helenbaileyart.com). “I lived across...
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    Chlorides, Saggar, Obvara, and Crackle
    Karen Zupanic
    • Jun 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Chlorides, Saggar, Obvara, and Crackle

    The Palos Verdes Art Center in California believes “in the power of art to ignite the imagination and be an agent for change.” So it’s no...
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    The Thrill of being Pulled Off the Plate
    Karen Zupanic
    • May 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Thrill of being Pulled Off the Plate

    Printmaking. We all remember it from elementary school.....being given half of a potato, shown how to draw a design on it, carving it...
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    Signature Member of the Southwestern Watercolor Society
    Karen Zupanic
    • May 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    Signature Member of the Southwestern Watercolor Society

    Being able to study under nationally-renowned artists like Gerald Brommer, Steven Quiller, Jane Jones, Bob Burredge, Mark Mehaffey, and...
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    A Square Round?
    Karen Zupanic
    • May 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    A Square Round?

    The Six Dowell, The Blueprint, and The Square Round, are three of Artist Don Chesser's favorite custom ornament styles. A wood turner...
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    Keith Richards Rocked the Heard-Craig Center
    Karen Zupanic
    • May 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Keith Richards Rocked the Heard-Craig Center

    A year ago, when the weather was great and we were all outdoors instead of harboring indoors on quarantine, the Heard-Craig Center hosted...
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    The Only Way for Women to Financially Make It
    Karen Zupanic
    • May 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Only Way for Women to Financially Make It

    "As a kid, I remember my dad saying that the only way for women to financially make it was to become a secretary," says 30-year-...
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