Category: Arts and Culture

  • Arts and culture alive and well in Innisfil

    Arts and culture alive and well in Innisfil

    Enhancing the arts, culture and heritage as an integral part of Innisfil’s identity has long been on the minds of the Innisfil Arts, Culture and Heritage Council (IACHC). Current board member of the IACHC, Sydney Hardie, said the council has been playing an impactful role in engaging the public in determining Innisfil’s priorities regarding local artists…

  • Oregon taxpayers can direct taxes to fund arts and culture

    Oregon taxpayers can direct taxes to fund arts and culture

    SALEM – Oregonians, and only Oregonians, have the unique opportunity to direct a portion of their state taxes to fund arts, heritage and humanities work across the state by using the Cultural Tax Credit. The vast majority of Oregonians who are eligible, however, are not aware of the opportunity. The Oregon Cultural Trust, a charitable…

  • Culture Type: The Month in Black Art, Here’s What Happened in November 2022

    Culture Type: The Month in Black Art, Here’s What Happened in November 2022

    November highlights include Courtney Willis Blair heading White Cube gallery in New York, Alonzo Davis archives go to Driskell Center, first Black board chair at Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art, Mariane Ibrahim gallery opening in Mexico City APPOINTMENTS | Nov. 4: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation in Sarasota, Fla., announces election of…

  • Erie Arts & Culture executive director stepping down in 2023

    Erie Arts & Culture executive director stepping down in 2023

    Change is coming to an Erie arts agency as the new year rolls in. Patrick Fisher recently made the announcement that he will be stepping away from the executive director of Erie Arts and Culture in April. He joined Erie Arts and Culture in 2018 with a five-year plan. U.S. Brig Niagara crews building new…

  • NJPAC’s Kwanzaa Festival Celebrates Unity and Culture With Arts and New Community Partners

    NJPAC’s Kwanzaa Festival Celebrates Unity and Culture With Arts and New Community Partners

    COLUMNS | FEATURES | EVENT PREVIEWS featured eventsBy Laurie Granieri, JerseyArts.com originally published: 12/09/2022  When Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center opens its doors on Dec. 17 for the annual Kwanzaa Festival and Marketplace, the gathering will mark a kind of homecoming.  The free event, at the heart of NJPAC’s community programming for more…

  • Google Arts & Culture Android widget celebrates the birthdays of famous artists [Gallery]

    Google Arts & Culture Android widget celebrates the birthdays of famous artists [Gallery]

    Google Arts & Culture is the latest Android app to introduce a homescreen widget. This one celebrates the birthdays of famous artists by showcasing their artwork. Since the launch of Android 12 and Material You, Google has been steadily ramping up the availability of widgets in its many apps. Today, we have an ever growing…

  • City Arts and Culture Grant Applications Now Available

    City Arts and Culture Grant Applications Now Available

    Oakland, CA – Applications are now being accepted for the City of Oakland’s 2022-2023 Cultural Funding Program grants supporting organization programs and individual artist projects. Applicants must be Oakland-based and all activities must be presented in Oakland between January 1, 2023 and August 31, 2023. Interested nonprofit organizations and artists may access the grant guidelines…

  • Arts & Culture Newsletter: Chelsea Handler headed for San Diego Civic Theatre

    Arts & Culture Newsletter: Chelsea Handler headed for San Diego Civic Theatre

    Good morning, and welcome to the U-T Arts & Culture Newsletter. I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. Television’s late-night talk shows need a shot of estrogen. Who better to deliver it than Chelsea Handler? No disrespect to Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon…

  • A Guide to Arts and Culture this December

    A Guide to Arts and Culture this December

    From queering Bollywood film-posters and colour-field embroidery to ‘living pictures’ and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale – our editors on what they’re looking forward to this month TextaQueen, Kali ka Choti Behen, 2022, india ink marker, watercolour and coloured pencil on cotton paper, 53 × 38 cm. Courtesy the artist TextaQueen4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney,…

  • Public sculptures, model trains and Christmas gospel: Oregon arts and culture events in December

    Public sculptures, model trains and Christmas gospel: Oregon arts and culture events in December

    Your browser does not support the audio element. The Portland sign on Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall lights up an empty street Saturday, April 18, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Gospel Christmas with the Oregon Symphony is happening Saturday Dec. 10 and Sunday Dec. 11. Bradley W. Parks / OPB THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: The holidays are…