This week, the Manetti Shrem At Home Newsletter explores the theme “Outside In.” The Manetti Shrem invites you to be inspired by the museum's form, which gracefully balances the apparent contradiction ...

My favorite fictional television boss loves paper. He once said “It is … a message. It is an inspiration, it is … a source of beauty. And without paper, it could not have happened … Unless you had a ...

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist. I draw in between tasks. I sketch at ...

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist. I draw in between tasks. I sketch at ...

Four years ago, at the beginning of my watercolor journey, I wrote about how making art can be helpful to people living with chronic illness. In my own experience, these benefits have deepened and ...

A few months ago, I read a study reporting that cortisol (a stress-related hormone) lowers significantly after just 45 minutes of making art (Kaimal, Ray & Muniz, 2016). Intrigued, I bought watercolor ...