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Arts Briefs: News in art and culture from around Ventura County
Our Ventura TV introduces “Optimal Aging” Local talk show “Our Ventura TV” will be focusing on seniors in a new series debuting in 2024. “Optimal Aging” will highlight health and wellness, financial planning, personal assistance, caregiving, lifestyle, housing and other topics related to having a long, healthy, fulfilling life in the “golden years.” The show…
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New Mexico congressional representatives push for federal dollars for public art
Cathy Cook, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. January 10, 2024 at 11:59 PM Jan. 10—A mural with bosque pollinators, the Sandia Mountains and migratory birds decorates the Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center tower off of Coors — just one of hundreds of public works of art across the state of New Mexico. Two members of the state’s…
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‘Artist on a Mission’ Kristine Lim collaborates with Philippine Navy
Dolly Dy-Zulueta – Philstar.com January 11, 2024 | 9:34am MANILA, Philippines — In an unprecedented collaboration that fuses art, cultural unity, and maritime diplomacy, “Artist on a Mission” Kristine Lim’s “Bridging Horizons: Naval Culture Thru Arts” was recently launched as an effort by Lim and the Philippine Navy to embark on a journey that aims to transcend boundaries…
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Why Google transformed a quantum computing lab into an artistic oasis
JACOB AGUILAR, Google Technician: I mean, everything with vibrant color in here really just helps, I think, express our creative side in here, and it really just keeps the lab in a creative thinking space, just because, when stuff is just too technical, and it’s just basic black and white, it really closes off your…
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UP Focus Art Exhibit Opens Jan. 18 at NMU
Northern Michigan University’s DeVos Art Museum will soon unveil the 2024 installment of its UP Focus exhibition, which highlights artists living and working in, or inspired by, the Upper Peninsula. This year’s featured artists are connected to the Copper Country: Catherine Benda and Carrie Flaspohler VanderVeen. An opening reception with artist talks is scheduled for…
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10 Must-See Museum Exhibitions in 2024
Art Annabel Keenan Jan 10, 2024 6:18PM Firelei Báez, Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to the Fan Test for the Month of July (detail), 2011. © Firelei Báez. Photo by Mats Nordman. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Caspar David Friedrich, Frau am Fenster, 1822. Photo by Jörg P. Anders. Courtesy…
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Lilly Endowment READI award to focus on arts, blight reduction
In his State of the State address Tuesday night, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a major boost to the state’s Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative, or READI. The governor said Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. is awarding $250 million—the largest single gift in the endowment’s history—to support READI 2.0, with the funding earmarked for specific types…
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Fairfax County Nonprofit Arts And Culture Sector Generates $260.3M In Economic Activity
Fairfax County’s nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $260.3 million in economic activity in FY22 according to the recently released Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6), an economic and social impact study conducted by Americans for the Arts. That economic activity — $180.2 million in spending by nonprofit arts and culture organizations and $80.1 million…
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Arts advocate Simone Anderson: “Elevate the importance of arts and culture for everyone”
By Simone Anderson 10 Jan, 2024 04:00 PM3 mins to read Simone Anderson: “I hope to be blown away to hear that the National-led government has found the previously missing bandwidth to design an ambitious, punchy, and achievable arts policy…” Photo / Supplied Simone Anderson is the founding director of the Incubator Creative Hub in…
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10 January 2024 – Arts and Culture East Devon (ACED) announces recipients of new Creative East Devon Fund
© Paddleboat Theatre Company The Creative East Devon Fund has provided financial support to bolster vibrant new art and culture projects. East Devon culture organisations and creatives struggling to fund a cultural project, festival or event have been provided a lifeline through a new fund from Arts & Culture East Devon. The Creative East Devon…