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@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:30 AM

CREATIVE SPOTLIGHT

Thomas Eakins painted 76-year-old Mary Arthur in 1900, focusing on her face and working hands with remarkable care.

The result is quiet, dignified and deeply human.

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Thomas Eakins’s 1900 oil portrait Mrs. Mary Arthur. An elderly woman with gray hair, small spectacles and a black dress sits against a muted brown background, looking downward as she works with a piece of red knitting or crochet in her hands. The painting is softly lit and intimate, drawing attention to her face and hands.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:15 AM

One dress. 380 embroiderers. 51 countries.

Kirstie Macleod’s Red Dress became a 14-year global collaboration, giving hundreds of people a place to stitch their own stories into one extraordinary work.

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Full-length studio photograph of The Red Dress, a sweeping burgundy silk gown covered from bodice to train in dense, colorful embroidery created by contributors around the world. A woman models the dress against a dark background, with the richly stitched train spreading widely across the floor.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 11:15 PM

Euphemia Kichlein was only 14 when this remarkable quilt was completed, likely with help from her mother.

Red-and-white geometry, embroidered birds, flowers and people turn a household object into a family record nearly two centuries old.

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A large square pictorial quilt from 1832 by Euphemia Kichlein. Red-and-cream geometric blocks alternate with embroidered cream blocks showing colorful birds perched among flowering plants. Small figures of women appear around the border, while the larger center panel depicts a family surrounded by embroidered flowers. Red tassels run around the quilt’s outer edge. The overall design is highly symmetrical and richly detailed.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 2:00 AM

For four days, one of Europe’s great public squares became a canvas made of flowers.

Brussels’ 2022 Flower Carpet reimagined the very first 1971 design — a massive, temporary artwork assembled by hand in the Grand-Place.

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A high aerial view of Brussels’ Grand-Place filled by the enormous 2022 Flower Carpet. The long rectangular floral artwork is covered in elaborate symmetrical patterns of red, pink, white, green and yellow, surrounded by ornate historic buildings and crowds of visitors. The carpet includes decorative references to the original 1971 design and the years 1971 and 2022 along its border.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 11:30 PM

From a distance, it looks almost like an aerial photograph. Then you notice the fields, hedgerows and tiny trees are all made with thread.

“A Peaceful Place (Somewhere Out There)” by curated RGR artist Victoria Rose Richards.

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A person outdoors holds a large round embroidery hoop containing Victoria Rose Richards’ “A Peaceful Place (Somewhere Out There).” The stitched landscape resembles an aerial view of countryside, with bright green fields, dense dark-green hedgerows and woodland, pale blue and yellow rectangular fields, and clusters of tiny purple flowers. The embroidery fills the circular hoop with remarkable texture and detail.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 11:15 PM

Nosheen Iqbal turns wood, cotton fiber and beads into something that feels halfway between textile, architecture and memory.

“Chaman” rewards a second look.

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Three tall rectangular panels by artist Nosheen Iqbal are displayed side by side against a gray wall. Each panel is densely lined with very fine parallel grooves in cream, muted pink, green and brown. Across the centers, the lines fold outward into intricate three-dimensional geometric flower-like forms arranged in repeating grids. The work combines the visual rhythm of textile pattern, carved architecture and folded paper.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 11:45 PM

A familiar American landscape looks a little different when you learn who painted it.

Grafton Tyler Brown’s 1890 view of Yellowstone’s Lower Falls is a striking piece of both art and history.

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Grafton Tyler Brown’s 1890 painting “View of the Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.” A white waterfall plunges through a deep canyon surrounded by dark evergreen forest and towering golden-brown and rust-colored rock walls. Pale blue mountains and a softly clouded sky stretch across the distance. The composition is vertical, emphasizing the immense height and depth of the Yellowstone landscape.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 7:30 PM

A chess game becomes a family portrait.

Thomas Eakins’ “The Chess Players” (1876) turns play into a quiet study of attention, relationship and time together.

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Thomas Eakins’ 1876 painting “The Chess Players.” In a dark, warmly furnished room, two seated older men concentrate on a chessboard while a third man stands behind them watching the game. A small table with glasses and a decanter sits nearby, and a dark-colored cat rests on the patterned red carpet.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 6:30 PM

Soft, shiny and joyfully strange.

Ant Hamlyn’s “Soft // Chrome Pink Daisies” turns metallic, inflatable-looking forms into flowers somewhere between bouquet, toy and pop object.

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Ant Hamlyn’s “Soft // Chrome Pink Daisies,” a sculptural arrangement of three oversized flowers made from glossy metallic-looking forms. Bright magenta petals surround reflective gold centers, with shiny green stems and leaves. The flowers appear puffed or inflatable and are mounted against a pale background.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 7:30 PM

Five calabashes. Family stories. Memory, migration and home.

Sipho Mabona’s “The Calabashes We Never Drank Amasi From” turns inherited stories into sculptural vessels.

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Installation view of Sipho Mabona’s “The Calabashes We Never Drank Amasi From.” Five tan, bottle-shaped calabashes sit individually on rust-brown cylindrical pedestals in a white gallery. Each vessel incorporates intricate, brightly colored geometric sections in red, blue, green, orange, white and black.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:30 PM

In 1876, Ellen Harding Baker stitched the solar system into a quilt.

Science, craft and imagination—mapped in thread.

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Ellen Harding Baker’s 1876 Solar System Quilt. Against a black textile background, a large stitched sun sits at the center surrounded by concentric orbital paths, planets, a comet and hundreds of tiny multicolored star-like stitches. “SOLAR SYSTEM” curves across the top and “E. E. BAKER 1876” appears near the bottom.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM

Gold fields, green hedgerows, winding roads — all built with thread.

“My heart beats [in fields of] gold” by Victoria Rose Richards. Shared with the artist’s permission.

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Circular embroidery by Victoria Rose Richards held in a wooden hoop against a pale wall. An aerial countryside is stitched in vivid yellow and many shades of green, with patchwork fields, dark textured hedgerows and thin white roads winding between them. A hand holds the hoop from below.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 11:15 PM

CREATIVE SPOTLIGHT

Sonya Clark built a portrait of Madam C. J. Walker out of combs.

From a distance: a face. Up close: hundreds of everyday objects tied to hair, labor, identity and Walker’s remarkable legacy.

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Sonya Clark’s Madame CJ Walker, a black-and-white portrait constructed from rows of black combs arranged on a white background. From a distance, the repeated comb shapes form the face and upper body of Madam C. J. Walker. A close-up beside the full image shows the dense grid of comb teeth and handles that creates the portrait.
@raisegoodruckus.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 11:15 PM

CREATIVE SPOTLIGHT

This isn’t a photograph!

Zaria Forman’s Whale Bay, Antarctica No. 2 was drawn entirely in soft pastel, turning Antarctic ice into something almost startlingly physical.

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Zaria Forman’s Whale Bay, Antarctica No. 2, a large soft-pastel drawing of massive Antarctic ice formations rising above dark blue water. White and pale-blue cliffs fill most of the image beneath a soft gray sky. Fine shadows, ridges and fractured surfaces make the ice appear almost photographic.