Tag: art

Getting creative with Autumn de Forest at The Butler

Karyn Locke
Autumn de Forest The Kid's painting

If you’ve popped on the site before (thank you!), you may have checked out a post on Autumn de Forest-teen artist extraordinaire. She has a natural way of inspiring kids of all ages and artistic levels to simply create art. Her passion and love of painting is so obvious and her goal? She simply wants to do something to help the world. As simple, and as beautiful, as that. Easy enough, right? Autumn certainly commanded the room during a recent visit to The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and…

Living the Suite Life at Hilton Columbus Downtown

Karyn Locke

Last weekend, The Kid and I lived the “Suite Life” in Columbus, Ohio. We lounged around, enjoyed a visit to Gallerie and took a modern art tour,  had a ball at a wedding reception, and I made some delicious executive decisions. While this may sound ambitious, it all happened under one roof- Hilton Columbus Downtown. The Suite Life Having a suite with a teenage daughter is fabulous in that there’s plenty of room for each of us to get out of the other’s way- not that we need to but…

Industrial Teapot at Hilton Columbus Downtown

Karyn Locke

Visiting Hilton Columbus Downtown is a hot spot hotel for me in that it houses an art collection so it’s like getting free admission to a modern art gallery when I stay. Each trip to the property I find myself wandering the halls and common spaces looking for new pieces and old favorites. This clay wonder is by artist Scott Dooley and its whimsy certainly caught my eye this weekend. Teapot II may fool you in that it’s clay and glaze, not metal and iron. As a gal whose mother…