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I was excited to see Amanda Visell’s Empowering Posters for Girls at Ohdeedoh — especially with the latest trend in negative T-shirts. Created to “show girls they can do anything,” the prints feature beautiful illustrations of confident gals declaring just that.
View my favorites from Visell’s collections below. Continue reading »
Art or Porn?
It’s a simple statue of a woman holding a plate. A golden cloth is draped around her waist, leaving the rest of her body bare.
The half-nude statue is in the yard of an Ogden, Utah neighborhood filled with children, many whose parents think the statue is inappropriate. That’s why they complained to the city, asking that the statue be removed.
North Ogden City Manager Ed Dickie says the residents approached the North Ogden City Council to say the statue doesn’t belong in a neighborhood with many elementary school-age children passing by the statue every day. Continue reading »
What would you call a handmade item that leans more toward scary and horrific than pretty and pleasing? The folks at the aptly-named Craftastrophe have a knack for finding such items and they’ve located one that might interest you expectant parents out there. Continue reading »
Artist Sarah Hatton has an upcoming painting exhibit in Vancouver that is causing a stir. Entitled “Bare”, it includes nine paintings of a naked toddler who is modeled on Hatton’s two-year-old daughter. Continue reading »
Angelina Jolie is a superstar, an icon and to some, a goddess. She’s regularly put on a pedestal and worshipped by the world’s celebrity loving masses. The artist Daniel Edwards has opted to honored Angie is a very unique way, with a life-sized statue representing the mom of six breat feeding her twins Knox and Vivienne. Click through to see the piece in all its glory. Continue reading »
Today on Babble:
“Dream It/Do It: Education and Culture”
By Tracy Chait.
Six ways to expand your child’s horizons, on two very different budgets.
Read it here.
Some artists use paper or canvas. Not Mark Greenawalt and RoByn Thompson. They use the pregnant belly as the vessel for their work. Theses artists have taken a paintbrush to the bare bellies of numerous ladies in the late stages of pregnancy. On Mark’s site he says that belly painting offers the expectant mother “an opportunity to capture the moment of this precious time by decorating the womb with original artwork.” Most think that the child themselves is a work of art but for those who are impatient can put an image on the mystery within.
Time.com recently profiled some of their “art.” You can check out five more pieces of maternity magic right here. Continue reading »
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Wendy Michaels 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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