Ms. Hanna’s Art Room

03/03/2026

Happy Youth Art Month! Why do the arts matter to you?
We know there are even more than 20 reasons why the arts are important. It's important to advocate for the arts every month, but with March being Youth Art Month we have a great opportunity to show why the arts are important!

Grab a free copy of this resource here: https://artofed.info/46CILgl

02/16/2026

Jean-Michel Basquiat drawings of heads take center stage at a new exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

01/30/2026

: A trio of Bob Ross paintings has brought in more than $1 million in support of public media. The works were offered by nonprofit organization American Public Television (APT), on the heels of its record-breaking sale in November, which (briefly) set a new auction record for the late painter.

Included in Bonhams’s “Americana” auction on January 27 were three paintings that Ross created on his celebrated TV series, The Joy of Painting, which still airs on public television. All vastly surpassed their presale estimates. The proceeds from the sale will benefit public broadcasting, which saw its federal funding slashed by $1.1 billion in 2025. Earlier this year, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit that has stewarded funding for local and rural stations for 58 years, officially shut down.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Z2WGZ1

Article by Min Chen

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Pictured: Bob Ross, Change of Seasons (1990). Photo courtesy of Bonhams.

01/01/2026

Though it isn't the kind of thing one hears discussed every day, serious Disney fans do tend to know that Goofy's original name was Dippy Dawg. But how many of the non-obsessive know that Mickey's faithful pet Pluto was first called Rover?

12/20/2025

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10/30/2025

: A new study indicates that art has immediate and clear positive effects on our health, reducing hormones associated with stress and increasing positive arousal.

It’s the first study to capture real-time benefits of looking at art, and it found immediate and measurable positive health results just from looking at artworks. The research found that art activates the immune, endocrine (hormone), and autonomic nervous systems all at once—something never previously recorded. The researchers are calling art a “cultural workout for the body,” one that may affect our susceptibility to conditions from heart disease to depression.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4ntZbgM

Article by Brian Boucher

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Pictured: A study subject observes Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) at the Courtauld Gallery. Courtesy Art Fund.

10/13/2025

09/30/2025

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: A group of more than 90 works from the estate of Pop art giant Roy Lichtenstein realized a white-glove result at Sotheby’s New York, fetching a total of $27 million, surpassing its $15 million presale estimate.

This latest cache of works comes from the personal holdings of Lichtenstein and his wife, Dorothy, who died last July. It encompassed painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, and prints, spanning more than four decades.

Read more: https://bit.ly/42m7BPA

Article by Brian Boucher

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Pictured: Roy Lichtenstein, Reflections Wimpy I (1988). © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.

09/19/2025

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Artists are a source of inspiration for cinematographers. Here are 12 movies based on the lives of artists worth watching.

09/19/2025

07/15/2025

Picnic Swing
Josephine "Josus" Graham
c. 1980
Acrylic on Masonite
37 x 28 in.
Collection of Historic Arkansas Museum

Historic Arkansas Museum is proud to have one of the largest collections of Graham's works.

Josephine Hutson Graham was a prolific artist, educator, author, and folklorist of Arkansas’s White River culture and cuisine. She won many local, regional, and national art awards and held more than twenty one-woman shows throughout the South and Southwest, as well as shows in New York, Washington DC, and Dallas, Texas.

The people and stories of Newport and the White River region inspired her work and were often the subject matter of her paintings of rural Arkansas life. In 1974, she published Suggin Cookbook (pronounced “soo-gin”), a collection of old-time recipes from handwritten records of her family and other pioneer families in the Jacksonport (Jackson County) area who emigrated from Derry, Ireland, in 1719. Graham also founded the Suggin Folklife Society; in 1981, it had 200 members from eight states. She explained that “Suggin” was a term used playfully and lovingly to mean “a somewhat uncouth and unsophisticated person living in a rural area or small town along the White River.”

Graham is perhaps best known for her authentic primitive works such as Flood at Granny’s, Saturday Town, Suggins, Bottom Rail’s On Top, and Even a Blind Sow Gets an Acorn Once in a While. She created more than 100 “suggin” paintings depicting folk history of rural Depression-era scenes. Many of her paintings were signed “Josus,” a childhood nickname given to her by her grandmother, Josephine Phillips. At one time, according to her son, Graham’s primitive-style paintings were more popular in New York than in Arkansas.

Read more on CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/.../josephine-hutson.../

07/12/2025

Sixty-five years after it first hit store shelves, the iconic, red-framed drawing toy continues to enchant kids, artists, and collectors alike