Sculpture by Michael Naranjo Known as The Artist Who Sees With His Hands, Native American sculptor Michael Naranjo lost his eyesight and the full use of one hand as the result of a grenade explosion during the Vietnam War. In spite of his injuries, for decades he has been creating bronze sculptures with a trademark matte…
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Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Sculptures, Statues, Carvings
At the Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, GA See more statues, sculpture and carvings or join Cee’s challenge here.
A Hospital Children’s Garden
We’ve been at the hospital again, this time for my husband’s long-awaited heart procedure. Called a Watchman procedure, it involved the insertion of a device that closes off the left atrial appendage of the heart. The Watchman device should reduce the risk of additional strokes, and over time, will allow him to stop taking anti-coagulants….
A unique museum in a small town: the Booth Western Art Museum
The small town of Cartersville, Georgia (population less than 20,000 people) houses one of the most unique museums in the United States. The Booth Western Art Museum, which opened in 2003, contains the country’s largest permanent exhibition space for art of the American West. Permanent galleries feature contemporary Western art, historic Western art, Civil War…
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Statues, Carvings, and Sculptures
Cee’s challenge this week features sculpture of many varieties. This photo, which was taken during a late-1990s trip to Boston, shows St. Luke and St. John in a relief sculpture on the exterior of Trinity Church on Copley Square. For more carvings, statutes, and sculpture or to join in this challenge, check out http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/10/08/cees-fun-foto-challenge-statues-carvings-sculptures/ …
Travel theme: Sculpture
In the center of the University of Notre Dame campus in Notre Dame, Indiana, stands the “Venite Ad Me Omnes” sculpture, Jesus with his arms outstretched to all the world. The sculpture faces the “Golden Dome” which is the administration building of the university and is flanked by the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on…
Unexpected in common hours 