Good News Notes: “Smack dab in the middle of the American West and surrounded by snow-capped mountains, Salt Lake City has a history of drawing people in. For many, the Utah city is known as a destination for skiing and winter sports, but in recent years, the arts scene has flourished. “The SLC creative scene is definitely getting bigger and stronger,”…
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Girl, 10, made £50k from her floral paintings – and donated it all to charity
Good News Notes: “Daisy Watt only started painting four years ago when two of her grandparents were diagnosed with cancer and she painted them a picture to cheer them up. Since then the 10-year-old, dubbed the ‘mini Monet’, has gone on to make £50,000 from her floral landscape paintings, which can sell for up to…
Spokane artists paint mural on Peaceful Valley basketball court
Good News Notes: “Gallons of paint and hours of man power went into painting the mural on the Peaceful Valley basketball court. The project is under the direction of local artist Tiffany Paterson. She designed the mural that Peaceful Valley, Hoopfest, Spokane Arts and MultiCare collectively chose to be on the court. It is the…
Painting tells the story of love and helping others, also helping local homeless children
Good News Notes: “A painting made with wax and oil paints hangs on a stand at the Virginia Beach Art Center: ‘Reylia: the Ascension of Creation.’ The painting, with streaks of different colors, tells the story of love and helping others, according to its painter, Jorge Saenz. That painting is also helping local homeless children….
Billionaire Will Raffle Away Picasso for Charity
Good News Notes: “Billionaire art collector David Nahmad cannot remember why he bought “Nature Morte,” a small oil painting by Pablo Picasso. Nahmad owns about 300 of Picasso’s works. So, his forgetfulness is understandable. ‘We bought so many Picassos now, I don’t remember the… reason,’ Nahmad said to Associated Press reporters from his home in…
Late professor’s artwork saved by colleague, put on display at Western Michigan University
Good News Notes: “More than 40 paintings were stored away in the late Dwayne Lowder’s attic, slated to be tossed before former colleague and friend Jack Carney got his hands on them and donated the artwork to Western Michigan University. Lowder, who died in 2018, was a professor in the WMU art department from 1966-1982.”…
When this artist honored Princeton’s blue-collar workers, the university took notice
Good News Notes: “As he watched his mother create masterpieces on a blank canvas in their Detroit home, 4-year-old Mario Moore had the thought, “I want to be an artist.” With a crayon and sketchbook in hand, he, too, would draw. Today, almost 30 years later, Moore has followed his childhood passion to become a painter and…
Local inventors create prototype that can make painting roads safer, less expensive – fox8.com
Good News Notes: “A pair of local inventors have developed robotic technology they say can make painting roads safer, faster and less expensive. Former Cleveland Heights auto shop owner Sam Bell and Case Western Reserve University professor Wyatt Newman formed RoadPrintz, Inc. and invented the system. They equipped a proof-of-concept truck with a computer-controlled robotic…
Lynn Colwell will give you a painting if you donate money to charity
Good News Notes: “Lynn Colwell’s art teacher peered down at the then-8-year-old’s drawing and made a blunt assessment: Art was not for her. Colwell believed her teacher and spent the next several decades not painting, accepting that she wasn’t artistic.” “A little over five years ago, a friend suggested that Colwell register for an online…
Kids Taunted Him For His Cerebral Palsy. Then He Found His Talent
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