“Mom,” my 9-year-old told me, “I want to do art lessons. Please sign me up.” She handed me a stack of papers from her teacher, including the one for the after-school ceramics class. I meant to fill ...

One of the great joys of childhood was the hours we spent dabbling in finger paints, coloring with all 64 crayons and swirling brushes in the jelly-bean hues of a watercolor pan. Those art supplies ...