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The Enchanted Brush Exhibition

Arnie Fenner

If you're traveling in the Midwest this summer you should make time in your schedule to visit the 2025 The Enchanted Brush: Legendary exhibition curated by Dan Chudzinski for the Mazza Museum's Lea Gallery at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. Beginning with a beautiful poster painted by Scott Gustafson (shown at the top), artists in the exhibit include Iris Compiet, Allen Douglas, Quintin Gleim, James Herrmann, Kelley Hensing, Elliot Lang, Ashly Lovett, Don…

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Eranos and the Archetype Database

Lauren Panepinto

July 10, 2025 - Last month I did a long post about how to not rely on Google images to do your image research — for a lot of reasons, including originality, accuracy, and avoiding AI sludge filling up search engines. The short version of the post is to start using better/vetted databases. And one I forgot to add is worth a whole post in itself, for the kind of things we do in fantastic art. Let me introduce you to the Eranos Archive. The Eranos Foundation was an archive started by a student/follower of Carl Jung, who I've talked about many times here. His body of work was the human subconscious and unconscious, and the archetypes that recur in human art, religion, dreams, and stories over and over again. I've talked about both him and Joseph Campbell, who…

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