In putting together the book, it became quite clear that I had two major mentors early in my life: my uncle, Philip Kaplan, and later Jane Kastner, Education Curator at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum.
Read Moream thrilled to announce that not only have I finished the last chapter of the rough draft of my book, but that I have found the best of all possible editors: Dorion Sagan, a gifted science writer and the son of Lynn Margulis and co-author on many of her books.
Read MoreElectric Beings is about energy, especially electromagnetic energy (e.g., light and colors) and thermal energy (heat). There’s no doubt today that the nervous system runs on electricity.
Read MoreSTEM curriculum becomes STEAM: Science, Technology , Engineering, ART and Math. Fifty years after the Alvarado Arts Workshop, it was time for me to be involved again as an artist in the schools, this time bringing art into a Developmental Biology classsroom.
Read MoreA trip to San Francisco brings back memories of the 1970s and working as an artist in the schools and community.
Read MoreTwo new exhibits: ScienceWorksMuseum and Belle Fiore Winery. And a new video animation from the Oregon Fringe Festival.
Read MoreMother’s Day in Rome: the feminist collective Lotta Femminista stages a large exhibition in popular Piazza Navona next to Bernini’s Four RIvers fountain. The exhibit showed how women are depicted in advertising and in the real world.
Read MoreIt’s a month since I announced my Legacy Project. You might be wondering where things stand.
Read MoreI am honored that The Center for Humans and Nature has published an article about my work in its latest issue. The article is titled Life in the Cosmos: Micro and Macro and features some of my favorite paintings. The Center’s mission is to “explore and promote human responsibilities in relation to nature — the whole community of life.”
Read MoreUpon reaching my 80th birthday last year, I embarked on my Legacy Project with the goal of producing a book containing my favorite and most important works with related writings: blogs, autobiographical stories, philosophical musings, and why the arts are essential for human well-being.
Read MoreThe last part of my pilgrimage took me to Bilbao, then Rotterdam, and finally to Amsterdam.
Read MoreWhile visiting Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci in November 2023, two of the school’s lively young journalists interviewed me. Click on the magazine’s banner to read what they wrote.
Read MoreIn the film La Vacanza, the script called for a Countess. The film director enlisted me to play the Contessa Americana alongside the protagonists played by Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero.
Read MoreIn November of 2023, just two weeks after my 80th birthday, I went to Florence, Italy, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, home of the 15th century Italian Renaissance. The highlight of my journey was a visit to the Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci where I was a foreign exchange student in 1960. This video documents favorite momens of my visit.
Read MoreThis painting is an allegory that tells a story: the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of the Sky, Nut, forms a protective arch over the 17th century woman astronomer who is gazing at Saturn through an early telescope. She is Galileo’s daughter, the Catholic nun Suor Celeste, whose name in Italian means Sister Sky.
Read MoreEach year the Community Church of Boston hosts a memorial ceremony in honor of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed by the State of Massachusetts in 1927.
Read More“We must stay, open-eyed, in the terrible place…” from May Sarton’s poem “The Invocation to Kali”
Read MoreAt the Azkuna Zentro, or Cultural Center, of Bilbao, Spain on November 29, 2022. The projected image is what visitors see at the entrance to the exhibit “Science Friction: Living with Companion Species,” the exhibition that was mounted in at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona in 2021. This time I was able to be there the opening press conference, meet the other artists, have lunch with the directors of both museums and fellow artists and attend a party that evening in the atrium of the Azkuna Zentroa, one a warehouse for thousands of wine and olive oil casks. The video animation of my single-celled creatures plays non-stop while the AZ is open.
Read MoreThe tubules seen here are metaphorical cornucopias overflowing with a few of Earth's endless life forms.
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