This morning, Hillary Feerick, daughter of long time faculty member and friend to many, the late Mr. Raymond Feerick, shared a book she recently co-authored with her husband, Jeff Hillenbrand. Kindergarten boys were enthralled. The energy, optimism and unyielding passion for "knowing" that kindergarteners exude on a consistent basis is a joy. "The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach" and its related website http://www.mitchspinach.com celebrate nutritious foods, and the powers that healthy eating bestow upon the protagonist. Mitch, otherwise seen as a regular kid at school, is secretly called upon to solve cases. The boys loved it. The book is dedicated to Ray.
Yesterday evening, independent scholar and critic Michelle Marder Kamhi ( www.mmkamhi.com ), co-editor with husband Louis Torres of Aristos , an online review of arts; author of Who Says That's Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts ; and grandmother of two Saint David's boys, gave a thought provoking talk on art for our grandparent community. An advocate of objective standards in arts scholarship and criticism, Ms. Kamhi focused her talk on the ways in which art critics such as Clement Greenberg promoted the shift from representational art to abstraction. Kamhi argues that the abstract and post-modern art prevalent today, which often requires explanation by docents in order to be understood, goes against art's purpose. Taking issue with Greenberg's contention that representation is an expendable convention of painting, she quoted the late art critic John Canaday: "Art is the tangible expression of the intangible values that men live by." ...
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