The Firehouse Art Center in Longmont is offering an exhibit of fiber art this month, and if you walk in knowing nothing about the show, the work won’t strike you at first for what it is. The 28, ...

Frustrated yet again, I tore the gold-embossed stationery in two, crumpled both halves together in my hand, and watched as the paper ball sailed five feet through the air before landing with a soft ...

Cursive handwriting is often described as a lost art. So why not teach it in art class? That’s exactly what one Ohio school district plans to do. At a time when some states are dropping cursive ...

"Cursive has become, in a true sense, what it is: an art form," Works said. "What I do worry about is students won't be able to read important things such as letters from their ancestors." ...

In many schools today, the traditional pen-to-paper notetaking has been replaced with tablets and personal laptops. At the front of most classrooms, where giant blackboards were once the focal point ...

As an autograph collector, I’ve always found it fascinating to compare athlete signatures. The “half moons” that Mickey Mantle incorporated into his moniker later in life are legendary. The sweeping ...

Kids, don’t listen to the naysayers. Don’t fall for the story that it’s a dying art with no practical application in the modern world. Don’t allow computers with their word processing capabilities to ...

When Delores Gonzalez started teaching nearly 30 years ago, cursive was a basic in writing class. Today Gonzalez is among a dwindling number of teachers who still require it on assignments. "I tell ...