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Oct

Aha Moment Maker: Monumental Critiques

by Your friends at OIC on October 26, 2013

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, 1981—Sculptor and architect Maya Lin was just a 21-year-old senior at Yale University when her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was chosen from over 1,400 entries.

Her winning design was initially created as a project for her funereal architecture class, and not for the competition. Only later did she decide to enter it. Read more...

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Your Own Aha Moments

Oct

Signs of the Time

by Meredith Mullins on October 24, 2013

Painted man holding up street marker, artistic expression by a street artist (Image © Jerry Fielder)

It’s a tough job, but someone has to hold up those street signs.
Photo © Jerry Fielder

Artistic Expression Takes to the Streets

Daily life is filled with “Oh, I See” Moments. You just have to look around. What you often stumble upon is spontaneous artistic expression—offered to make a day in the streets just a little bit more interesting.

Artists of the street make art for themselves, but they also hope that someone else will connect with what they do and be surprised or amused or moved by the unexpected. Read more...

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Clever Ideas/The World's Art & Design

Oct

Picture-Perfect Pumpkin Carving

by Janine Boylan on October 21, 2013

Klimt's The Kiss, creative expression in pumpkin carving by Maniac Pumpkin Carvers

Creative Expressions for Halloween

Most people may take a break from their everyday jobs to go on vacation. Marc Evan and Chris Soria use their time away to, as they say, “get messy with some pumpkins.”

The Brooklyn-based childhood friends pause their 11-month art careers to spend every day in October working until early into the morning carving, cutting, and hollowing out hundreds of orange gourds as part of their seasonal business, Maniac Pumpkin Carvers. Read more...

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Cultural Heritage & Traditions/The World's Art & Design/USA

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