Presenting to teachers presents an unusual challenge. After all, that is their role with their students during hundreds of classes each year. Last week, during the Oklahoma A+ Schools “Not Your Average Conference” at the University of Central Oklahoma, teachers from seventy arts-integrated schools laughed at me, or rather with me, when I asked duringContinue reading “Teachers (And Why It Almost Didn’t Happen)”
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What’s With This Dog?
George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog artworks became a phenomenon, as well as a portal to creative freedom for the artist. On his canvas, along with drawings, sculptures, and digital expressions, the surrealist impulses within his Cajun paintings flourished beyond imaginary Louisiana settings to include the broad expanse of George’s mind, unlimited by a culture orContinue reading “What’s With This Dog?”
Bodies
“In Art, the more personal you become, the better you become.” George Rodrigue as I wrote his words in my journal, 6/30/11 Years ago, George’s and my publishing agent, Roz Cole, pushed me to write a book she called, How to Love.* At the time, I humored her by considering it, but I deferred toContinue reading “Bodies”
I Am What I Grow (Resolve to Begin)
How many times have I started essays in the seven years since George passed away only to abandon them without finishing? Too many to count. But this time it’s serious… Part of my New Year’s resolution is to post at “Musings of an Artist’s Wife” (est. 2009), now a program of the Life & LegacyContinue reading “I Am What I Grow (Resolve to Begin)”
I’ve Moved! Please Join Me!
Dear Rodrigue Friends and Fans, It was 10 years ago that I started, with George’s encouragement, “Musings of an Artist’s Wife.” Today, it’s time for a change. The more than 300 essays highlighting George Rodrigue’s history, artwork, and our life together will remain posted here as a permanent reference. All new posts, however, are inContinue reading “I’ve Moved! Please Join Me!”
Fall 2019 Life & Legacy Tour
Announcing the Life & Legacy Fall Tour, celebrating the life and art of George Rodrigue! Please join me on a journey of ‘slow art,’ as we use George’s inspiring story and original paintings to explore the mysterious and mystical, the intuitive and emotional, and always, the beauty and joy of this precious life. -pictured: at Loranger ElementaryContinue reading “Fall 2019 Life & Legacy Tour”
Louisiana Lawyers Go West
Turquoise Hill with its ancient turquoise mine is an enchanting place —spiritual, timeless, mysterious, and breathtaking in its beauty. George and I visited many times over the years, beginning in the early 1990s. We were guests of history, nature, and the mine’s incomparable owner and steward, George’s dear friend and now my husband, Douglas Magnus.Continue reading “Louisiana Lawyers Go West”
Ursuline-Cool! George Rodrigue Life & Legacy Visits the Historic New Orleans School
It was 1994, for my cousin’s wedding, when I last visited Ursuline Academy. That I forgot their magnificent church, The National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, confounds me. This spring on the George Rodrigue Life & Legacy Tour, I stood both transfixed and transported within this glorious temple to God and women andContinue reading “Ursuline-Cool! George Rodrigue Life & Legacy Visits the Historic New Orleans School”
Five Years and a Library
It was five years ago tonight that George looked at me for the last time. His eyes were bright and beautiful and child-like in their curiosity and faith. For a long time, I struggled to remember anything but those last twenty-four hours. I couldn’t get past that look, and especially my own fear that theContinue reading “Five Years and a Library”
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art – Extended!
There’s no doubt that if George Rodrigue were here today, he would have painted for his current exhibition at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. We talked about it some fifteen years ago as we watched the museum under construction, and again as we attended its opening exhibitions. He dreamed of showing his work in thisContinue reading “Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art – Extended!”