Cincinnati, the Great Auk, Audubon, and a Man Named Ruthven

  By Bob Bahr Let me tell you about the Great Auk. I offer this because on Sept. 12, visitors to the Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) had the chance to see three representations of the Great Auk, a flightless bird that lived in the waters and along the coasts of...

Thoroughly Skilled & Ready to Boost SKB

by Bob Bahr Rod Lawrence is thorough when it comes to his own art, and accepting when it comes to other people’s process. In other words, he can and will show you exactly how he makes an image, but he does not expect or even encourage workshop participants to...

SKB Spotlight: Valerie Rogers

Many of Valerie Rogers’s paintings seem to follow an arc: Rogers experiences a memorable moment in nature, she sketches or photographs the animal on the spot or later in a similar situation, and then she paints it. Although she sometimes wishes she had her...