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What is the value in abstract art?
This week I took my 7th and 8th grade art students to visit the Modern art museum in Fort Worth. There were a lot of comments such as:...

Lara Neri
Sep 19, 20193 min read


3 reasons to visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Despite many trips to Washington DC, I had never been to the Smithsonian American Art Museum until this summer. It is not one of the...

Lara Neri
Aug 10, 20192 min read


My favorite Russian Murderer
My husband and I have just finished a refreshing three-day class at the Dallas Institute discussing Gogol’s Dead Souls, Melville’s...

Lara Neri
Jun 13, 20195 min read


Flowery Sunday in Constantinople
Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...

Lara Neri
Apr 10, 20195 min read


Will "Beauty save the world"?
I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...

Lara Neri
Feb 28, 20193 min read


tea & tiny emperors
This past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of...

Lara Neri
Jan 17, 20182 min read


art camps: pursuing Beauty together
Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...

Lara Neri
Jul 26, 20162 min read


iconography: window to the Divine
I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...

Lara Neri
Jul 5, 20162 min read


love despite ugliness
Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...

Lara Neri
Jul 5, 20161 min read


rebirth & regeneration: the image of the snake
Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...

Lara Neri
Jun 21, 20161 min read


the iconography of faerytales
With the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed....

Lara Neri
Jun 15, 20162 min read


beauty & simplicity
The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...

Lara Neri
Jun 8, 20161 min read


enjoy an art museum today
Now that school is out, many parents are looking for interesting, fun alternatives to sitting around at home watching their children...

Lara Neri
Jun 2, 20161 min read


Why come to an Akathist Art Girls' Night Out workshop?
In these times, in our country, many women live isolated lives. Mothers feel societal pressure to do everything themselves - the cooking,...

Lara Neri
Feb 11, 20162 min read
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