ART, ART HISTORY and CRITICISM
Sculpture Review Magazine
- Figures from the Earth: Ceramic Sculpture, vol LIX, no 3, fall 2010
- Capital Sculpture: L’Enfant’s Design for Washington D.C., vol LIX, no 1, spring 2010
- Preserving Our Heroes, The Monuments of Gettsyburg National Military Park, vol LVIII, no 2, summer 2009
- Music and Sculpture: A Survey, vol LVII, no 4, winter 2008
- The Visible Nude: Artists and Foundries Speak about Public Sculpture, vol LVII, no 2, summer 2008
- Archetype and Allegory: Marino Marini’s Horses and Riders, vol LV, no 2, summer 2006
- Sculpture through the Lens, vol LIV, no 4, winter 2005
- An Abundance of Life: The Morton Swinsky Collection, vol LIV, no 1, spring 2005
- Deborah Butterfield’s Horses: Allegories of the Spirit, vol LIII, no 3, fall 2004
- Sculpture as the Union of Art and Craft, vol LIII, no 1, spring 2004
- Polychromy: Color in Modern Figural Sculpture, vol LII, no 3, fall 2003
- Taking Chisel and Hammer to Stone: some thoughts on marble sculpture since 1950, vol LI, no 1, spring 2002
- Distance, Detail and the Apprehension of Reality: The Sculpture of Alberto Giacometti, vol L, no 3, fall 2001
National Gallery of Art publications
- Art Works from the West Building: A Self-Guided Tour for Children and their Families, 1994
- Shapes and Patterns: East Building, National Gallery of Art, A Self-Guided Tour for Children and their Families, 1992
- Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. A self-guided tour for children ages 6-12 and their parents, 1992
- The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum: A self-guided tour for children ages 6-10 and their parents, 1990
GENERAL INTEREST
The Origins of Everything: Digging Into the Beginnings of Things, Armchair Reader series, Chicago: Publications International Ltd., 2009. Essays: “An Eggscellent Easter Tradition,” “Portrait of Oils,” “The Diabolical Fork,” “Too Big to Be True,” “Pariahs: A People Apart,” “A ‘Fitting’ Solution: The Origin of Jugsaw Puzzles,” “In Defense of Animal Rights,” “With This Ring, I Thee Wed”
Daily Dose of Knowledge, Chicago: Publications International Ltd., 2008. Essays: Aggripina; Bernini and Borromini; the pigeon Cher Ami; Christopher Wren; Cubism; Dada; Honoré Daumier; the Fibonacci Series; Francisco Goya; intaglio prints; Jackson Pollock; Lewis Hine; Édouard Manet’s Olympia; Matthew Brady; Michelangelo; Claude Monet’s Waterlilies; Pablo Picasso’s Guernica; Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; T-O maps; the Unicorn Tapestries; Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin at Arles; Diego Velazquez’s Maid’s of Honor
“The Last One,” OSHER at JHU Journal,vol 18, no 2, fall/winter 2008
“Chasing Pop’s Ambulance,” Bostonia, The Alumni Quarterly of Boston University, no 1, spring 2006
“A Letter to my Son,” September Eleven: Maryland Voices, Baltimore: Baltimore Writers Alliance, 2002
“Crusades,” September Eleven: Maryland Voices, Baltimore: Baltimore Writers Alliance, 2002
The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Going West–in lovely Mass., Sunday Travel Section, October 2, 2005
- Gîte: Home away from home, Sunday Travel Section, January 30, 2005
- Love, Venice and pigeons, too, Sunday Travel Section, March 7, 2004
- With childhood book as a guide, Ireland trip becomes a reality, Sunday Travel Section, July 6, 2003
- French connections span generations, Sunday Travel Section, July 14, 2002
The Baltimore Sun
- “Food for Thought: An environment-conscious meat eater reflects on the meaning of her dining choices,” Opinion Page, August 14, 2011
- “Attack of the satellite radio stations,” Opinion Page, July 15, 2010
- “Busy Madrid on parade,” Sunday Travel, March 26, 2000
- “Isolation is the Problem, Not the Fix, for Education,” Opinion Page, March 2, 1993
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Fountas-Pinnell level T, grade 6), 2009
Macmillan/Mc-Graw Hill Leveled Readers
- Bicycle Metals (grade 2), 2008
Scott Foresman Reading Street Leveled Readers
- The Inspiration of Art (5.3.2 advanced), 2007
- The Chicago American Giants (5.1.4 below level), 2007
- The Rosetta Stone and the Secret of Hieroglyphics (4.4.4 below level), 2007
Scott Foresman Social Studies Leveled Readers
- Looking at Prehistory (6.1 A below level), 2006
- Discovering the Old Stone Age (6.1 B on level), 2006
- What Archeology Tells Us About Prehistory (6.1 C advanced), 2006
- His Name Was Amerigo (5.2 A below level), 2006
- Vespucci Sails for America (5.2 B on level), 2006
- Exploring with Amerigo Vespucci (5.2 C advanced), 2006
- St. Augustine, Our First City (Florida 4.2 B on level), 2006
- St. Augustine and Florida’s Spanish Heritage (Florida 4.2 C advanced), 2006
“Through the Eyes of an American ‘Ambulancier’,” Learning Through History, vol 3, issue 6, 2005 (“The Great War”)
EDUCATION AND READING INSTRUCTION
“Image to Word: Art and Creative Writing by Kathleen Walsh Piper” (review), The WAC Journal (Writing Across the Curriculum), vol 15, 2004
“Finally, a Book That Is Really About Looking at Art!,” (review of Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilsen), CUT & PASTE, Elementary & Secondary Edition, a publication of The MASTER Teacher®, vol 3, no 7, September 2002
“Feeling Good for Good Reason,” CUT & PASTE , Elementary & Secondary Edition, a publication of The MASTER Teacher®, vol 3, no 7, September 2002
