December 16, 2014
Matthew Israel's Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War (University of Texas Press, 278 pp., $29.95, paper) fills the space that was left by Lucy Lippard’s A Different War: Vietnam in Art and…
November 12, 2014
Two copies of "No Man Left Behind, " a striking ten-foot-tall bronze monument created by the artist and sculptor John Phelp s, were dedicated today outside of the Wounded Warrior Battalion (East) Hope and Care…
May 9, 2014
Back in 1988 a group of veterans in Northern California got together and founded the Living Memorial Sculpture Garden. The veterans convinced the U.S. Park Service to help them honor those who have served in…
March 10, 2014
Matthew Bellantoni, a senior at Parsons the New School for Design , is in the beginning stages of building a website to help veteran writers and artists. The idea is to "create an online platform for veterans to…
January 28, 2014
Michael Sporn , an award-winning animation artist best known for his film adaptations of children’s books such “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” and “Goodnight Moon, ” died at age 67 on January 19 in New York City…
October 23, 2013
The Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, has two current exhibits---the Veterans’ Art Show and “Soldier Boy, Soldier Girl”---that recognize America’s veterans, past and present. The Veterans’ Art Show, a co-production of the National Ability…
October 15, 2013
The organization Warrior Gateway is hosting an event called the Veteran Artist Program Arts & Service Celebration November 2-11 in New York City. The two-pronged event brings veterans interested in the arts to New York…
July 19, 2013
Michael Sekletar, an Ohio artist, is about to finish his second veteran's mural in Amherst, Ohio, west of Cleveland. His first was a depiction of the famed Joe Rosenthal flag raising at Iwo Jima…
March 4, 2013
A new monument (above) honoring all of those service personnel who have given their lives or have been wounded in action will be dedicated on March 8 at the front entrance of the Warrior Hope…
January 14, 2013
An excellent profile of the artist Helen White ran recently in the Nevada (Missouri) Daily Mail . The article talks about White's work and how it was influenced by her service as a…