67th World Wide SketchCrawl at a Social Distance

67th World Wide SketchCrawl at a Social Distance

With the Spring weather arriving in April, Jo and I were able to get out, at a social distance, and do a bit of the SketchCrawl out at Lake Helen.  It was great to sketch out in nature.   LINK to Stevens Point SketchCrawl Post.
I am looking forward to the Summer World Wide Sketch Crawl and more sharing with sketchers of life across the world LINK

And a SIDE NOTE today.  Out of the blue, I received an email from a friend, Bill Kirby, with an old photo attached from 2005.  In October that year, we both participated in an Outdoor Survival weekend at UWSP Treehaven natural resources education center. It was taught by a staff member from Teaching Drum Outdoor School.  We had to make our own shelters for the night, out of a tarp and what ever else we found in the forest - leaves and pine needles for a mattress, sleeping bag on top and then large branches to form the shelter, with the tarp stretched over.  Yes, in October, we did have frost that night.  It was a very good learning experience. But, oh my, that was 15 years ago now!
In looking over my past links, it is always confusing to see how they change sometimes.  The link to my digital sketchbook online at the Brooklyn Art Library is now https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/S71251

Strange Times we are in - Kent State Commemoration of May 4, 1970 and Learning about Art in the Time of CoVID19.

Strange Times we are in .......
Kent State Commemoration of May 4, 1970 and Learning about Art in the Time of CoVID19.
May 4, 2020   MONDAY in north central Wisconsin

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Kent State Tragic Event.

Kent State 50^th Anniversary Link https://www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50

Attended online View a Virtual May 4 Commemoration that honors and remembers those who lost their lives on May 4, 1970, and recounts the events of that day. It was a good commemoration program at noon for an hour - they also had it on YouTube LINK.
It ended with a song by Crosby.

Wikipedia Note:  "Ohio" is a protest song and counterculture anthem written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. ... of horror, outrage, and shock in the wake of the shootings, especially the line "four dead in Ohio," repeated throughout the song. 

And the “Stay at Home” Time has definitely changed our lives and routines.  
 I finished my online Art History Survey class with the students and now I miss them.  It was great to be interacting and sharing what many museums have online for learning and experiencing art during this time.  Some of my favorites have been:  The Metropolitan Museum of New York and The Museum of Modern Art In New York City.

There are lectures free and available online for continued learning such as at MOMA (https://www.moma.org/audio/).

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works  of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture

through the Museum’s collection. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/chronology/#!?geo=eu

MoMA Learning    https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/

Browse by Artists or Themes.  And MoMA Courses online – FREE and at your own pace

https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/classes
and this is a good program with updates on current artists: https://art21.org/