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Author: Ingrid Murray
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ICAD 2024: Week 2
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The Index Card a Day (ICAD) project challenges participants to create 61 collaged or painted index cards from June 1–July 31 annually. Learn more about ICAD here. See other 2024 ICAD cards.See ICAD cards from other years.
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ICAD 2024: Week 1
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Each year, Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow hosts the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge. From June 1-July 31, you’re invited to create 61 pieces of art on index cards. There are very few rules, but if you find guidelines helpful, you can find weekly prompts and themes on Instagram and…
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Process Over Outcome
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Last week, I went to a dress rehearsal for Enno Poppe’s musical composition Strom. The piece sounded like an orchestra tuning its strings, or a child’s first concert: discordant, uncomfortable, and strange. (Listen to a small sample of it here.) Poppe created the piece by stretching single intervals — the…
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Living, Intentionally
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Today I turn another year older (and hopefully, another year wiser). I’m grateful I’ve given myself every chance to keep going, and am celebrating my softness, my childlike delight in the small things, my kindness, my creativity, my sense of humor. A few lessons learned in my time on earth…
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How to Paint Like a Child
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Children’s art is one of my greatest inspirations: it’s intuitive and impulsive, without the confines of “should” and “can’t”. Kids don’t have any sense of limitation, or any reason to doubt their own abilities. Picasso famously said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist…