Category Archives: Art

Creativity and good mental health go hand in hand

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Katherine Wikoff

Here’s an interview with Hilde Østby, author of a forthcoming book (April) titled The Key to Creativity. What really resonates for me and jibes with my own feelings and intuitive understanding of creativity is the reciprocal positive relationship between creativity … Continue reading →

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Nature vs. Human — Two very different types of lines

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

No judgment here as far as one type of line being better than the other. They’re just very different. And each beautiful in its own way😀

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When a picture IS a thousand words

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. Lots of topics, lots of industries, lots of different treatments. I’m just interested in lots of things 😄 One thing I subscribe to is “e news” from the Newberry Library in Chicago. The … Continue reading →

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My first DALL•E art project

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Because I teach courses on digital society and digital storytelling at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), I have been reading and learning a lot about DALL•E, the new AI-based art generator, this fall. I had seen references to DALL•E all … Continue reading →

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When life imitates art (or, the imperfection of perfection)

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I walked into my office in the Grohmann Museum on MSOE’s campus the other day and really liked the golden autumn glow of light reflecting from the locust tree outside my window. Especially appealing was the correspondence between the dead … Continue reading →

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An Ironing man at work in his mobile cart by the street side, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

An Ironing man at work in his mobile cart by the street side, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India An Ironing man at work in his mobile cart by the street side, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India I love—absolutely LOVE!—the colors in this … Continue reading →

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Happy Fibonacci Day!

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

  Round . . . Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel . . . So begins one of my favorite songs, and it popped into my head this morning as soon as I realized … Continue reading →

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If Edward Hopper stopped for groceries on the way home

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

I took this photo after work at the supermarket near my home two Fridays ago. The sun was already low in the sky at 5:30-ish p.m., as it sadly is at at this time of year. But on the plus … Continue reading →

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Friday afternoon (leaving work) photos

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

The Grohmann Museum was quiet on the second floor when I left work at MSOE this afternoon. I pressed the button to call the elevator but then, immediately after, decided to step away and take a picture of the stair … Continue reading →

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Update on where that lone dinosaur roams

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Almost exactly nine years ago I wrote a post about a straggler dinosaur lurking in the wilds of a long-closed mini-golf course and amusement park on North 76th Street in Milwaukee. (My original blog post HERE.) After years haunting the … Continue reading →

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