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Ukraine isn’t asking the world to fight our war. We’re asking the world to stop rewarding the country that started it.

Chapel Hill and nearby.

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt #Monday

Not quite my story because I am a woman but I definitely agree.

My plan was dropped by VCU Health. I prefer it for all my medical care. New plan required for 2027.

My focus in graduate school was surface design but I also had to be able to weave. One experience of dressing a loom convinced me I never wanted to do THAT again. #VCU #Design

I kept wondering how the teeny, tiny bits of fabric could not simply shred from use.

Brittany, France early 20thc, women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

The original serpent head from the Oseberg viking ship which was built around 820.

Drone debris falls on Kyiv like steel rain. The mayor keeps us informed about the damage it causes. We pretend we have umbrellas to hide under. Saturday evening. Drone attack again. I look out of the window to check whether it’s raining or not.

One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses from the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, over 30 headdresses have been found at the site. This example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own #Mesolithic #StarCarr

I knew about the men of the Bauhaus well before any of the women who taught or were students there. I first saw this tapestry by Stölzl as a tiny image in a book. Even in that format I found it inspiring. #ArtSky #Textile #Tapestry

They would not look out of place in some Richmond neighborhoods today.

I was born in Donbas. russia stole the place I called home. Now strangers on the internet explain to me why it was never mine. Imagine that level of arrogance. #donbas #ukraine #home #ukrainians #war

Elizabeth Aline Colborne (1885-1948) Table Mountain and Bagley Lake, Mt. Baker National Forest, 1928. Coloured multi-block woodblock.

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer & short story writer Doris Lessing was born #OTD in 1919. Awarded the #Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, she was the 11th woman and oldest person to win the award, at age 88. #Poetry #LitSky #BookSky

I would like to meet a binturong to confirm it really does small of buttered popcorn. 🍿

Sheela-na-gig, said to have attached to a medieval church, Seir Kieran, Co. Offaly, National Museum of Dublin #druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #heathensky #archaeology #celtic #Ireland #Sheela-na-gig #goddess

Took my breath away. The paper! Swoon!

I wish we had her murals here in #RVA

UK artist Clare Leighton, Toulon Washerwomen, 1925, wood engraving #womensart

US artist Hillary Waters Fayle, known for creating leaf embroidery #WomensArt

I always found Abdul El-Sayed’s podcasts about Public Health to be very informative. I have no doubt he will be a thoughtful, hardworking Senator. #Michigan

Yuko Shimizu (1965-) - Sweeping off the male gaze

Thick fog has covered Kyiv. I walked. Stood silent. Let my eyes catch the silhouettes of what the fog was hiding.

#walls #blueskyartshow #newyorkcity Play on words on the lower east side. #photography #streetphotography

If you are not following these Raven reports, they are a joyful break from the rest of life.

Sheila Hicks' monumental soft sculpture installation 'Nowhere to go' (2022). The US artist is a pioneering figure in fiber art and has worked across six decades #WomensArt

Life today in Kyiv.

Head of a Leopard Statue, Limestone, Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum, Türkiye. 9600-8200 BCE #archaeology #göbeklitepe #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #archaeology

Some photos of the Ravens visit this morning!

Fabric designs from that era are inspiring. Too bad such terrible times following while during the Soviet period.

Ugh. Thank goodness my 8th grade teacher at East Lansing Junior High had taken a workshop and taught us Italics. I loved & practiced it. Later I even studied calligraphy. People still compliment my handwriting. #HandWriting #Italics #EastLansing #PalmerMethod #Cursive

Brilliant printmaker. A longtime admired favorite. #Catlett #Artist #ArtSky #blm

Happy #81 to me Day. Planning to live to see the Orange Monster (and his gang) in jail.

The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. That piece of rope and clay remained entirely untouched for 3,245 years before this photo was taken. Original post

'Green Beast and Sun' by Laura Holden, contemporary artist from Somerset in the UK, inspired by folklore #WomensArt 🌞

Bulgaria, Neolithic, 4000 BCE

These are very rare.

A fascinating little ring from the Punic necropolis on Ibiza. It depicts a bearded man in profile, but his hair and beard are composed of two birds (!), and his collar is a dolphin. 😮 The Punic inscription reads 'Belonging to Abdim'. 🏺 1/ 3rd-2nd c. BCE. #MuseoArqueológicoNacional 📸 me

Will this Black Swallowtail caterpillar have time to turn into a butterfly and lay eggs? Munching the parsley on my front porch. #RVA #Butterfly #Parsley #October

Tetsuo Aoki, Two People.

I just listened to Stitched by Eli McCann from the Richmond Public Library - FREE. A loving & funny antidote to my usual police procedurals, Tim Snyder, and hard to face history. It was a reminder of my many happy hours in quilt, knitting, & textile groups. #QuiltSky #Stitched #BookSky #EliMcCann

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Please remove Columbus Day from your vocabulary.

Mask by Ellen Neel (1916–1966), Kwakwakaʼwakw artist woodcarver who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles. #Womensart

Sudden memory from East Lansing Jr High in about 1958. A class tour of a local Oldsmobile plant where we walked freely around the production lines. Times sure have changed. #Nostalgia #Oldsmobile #EastLansing