“L” I have always appreciated Lalique glass works, but knew nothing about René Lalique, the founder of the company. Before Lalique (1860-1945) worked chiefly with glass, he went to the College Turgot and then to École des Art Décoratifs. Later, he moved from Paris to London for two years to attend Crystal Palace School of Art…
“K” Kathleen Kent is my favorite local author. She writes historical fiction and has branched out into the noir genre as well. Her first novel, The Heretic’s Daughter, was written about her ancestor, Martha Carrier, who was executed for being a witch during the Salem trials. The prequel to that book, Kent’s second work of…
“J” –artist Maritza Jauregui Maritza Jauregui is an internationally renowned artist who started painting at a very young age. Born in 1970, she was 3 years old when she started watching her father paint and copying him. Later, she worked with clay and from this work, she received a scholarship for college. At the ripe…
“I” Isabelle Alford-Lago is a muralist I recently discovered perusing the internet. Her specialty is gorillas. Alford-Lago is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and she also studied in Florence, Italy. Most of her murals are in California, but a number of her murals can be found in Philadelphia. Alford-Lago recently…
“H” Before I started reading about minimalism as it relates to simple living, I learned about the kind that pertains to literary minimalism. Minimalism of this kind is a style or technique that is defined by extreme sparseness or simplicity. The first author I seriously studied that used the minimalist approach to writing short stories…
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