PAINTING WITH SCISSORS

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse Matisse said that he was never truly expressing himself until he started to work with collages. Samantha Friedman – Author Cristina Amodeo – Illustrator One day, the artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird from a piece of white paper. It was… Read More

The Women of Gee's Bend

THE WOMEN OF GEE’S BEND

The women of Gee’s Bend, in a small and remote black community in Alabama, have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating back to the early twentieth century. These quilters started by painstakingly taking apart old clothes by hand so as to use the ENTIRE piece of fabric. They didn’t use MOST of it to make something… Read More