The Yeiser Art Center Members + Sponsors Exhibition has always felt to me like a room where private meditations are briefly made public. Objects that …
Makeup Studio
Beauty as Nervous System Regulation
Perhaps this is what beauty does when we carry it long enough. It moves inward and becomes reflex. Cosmetics always felt like this to me …
CRACK OPEN
Wearable Love: Makeup, Fashion, and the Heart
Love is not only a feeling; it is a practice. The feeling comes from the practice itself, from repeated decisions we make to return to …
Where Old Versions of Us Go
There is something audacious about donating clothes, a gesture that pretends to be practical while secretly carrying the weight of a confession. Inside that bag …
On the Medium We Let Decide
There is a brief elevator scene in Mad Men in which a young model explains to Pete Campbell that she was called in for a …
On Snow Days
What We Hold Up to the World
There is a certain comfort in this kind of coincidence. It suggests that our private preoccupations are not as private as we imagine. That ideas …
Lover’s Eye: A Galentine’s Beauty + Art Night
Grab your friends and come play! Begin your evening at F.A.C.E. Makeup Artistry, where mirrors, pigment, and possibility set the tone. This Galentine’s night is …
Small Rooms, Big Questions
For a long time, I knew Norman Rockwell only as a cultural shorthand. His name seemed to stand for a particular idea of America: tidy, …