Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work? Looking back through art history, we find many moments when art has allowed us to share in the feelings of others. We will be looking at works by Kathe Kollwitz's, Maya Lin and the memorials they united the world with. While Ghana thinktank is working today that engenders empathy between groups of people often separated by borders, continents, or ideological divdes

We continue to explore some of the most powerful artworks by Iri & Toshi Maruki and Martha Rosler making the case for political art one work at a time.

Impressionism is one of the best known and loved movements in Art History, but why? We present a case for why Impressionism is interesting and worth your attention and admiration, beyond the famous names behind it of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art has long captured the tremendous beauty of earth and its climate, as well as its variability and our powerlessness to it. The things humans make come from the earth and are also highly susceptible to it. Art can help reveal the world around us, frame it, amplify it and also highlight our precarious relationship to it. Today we take a look at some paints that capture these expression of the earth and look back to see how people from the past have made artwork and objects that speak to it in some way

You can argue that all art is political in some way. Even a pile of yarn or landscape painting can be interpreted through a political context. But the various moments of the 20th century are political in obvious ways. We're going to dive into Kathe Kollwitz and the German war. Then the Russian revolution by Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir tatlin and lastly Pablo Picasso. We have to consider how each of these works is political, how each artis used the material and platforms of their own times to make unforgettable statements, and how these approaches might inform our own modes and means of expression.