Category: Arts and Culture

  • Amarillo’s Where We’ll Be

    Amarillo’s Where We’ll Be

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  • Oskaloosa hosts Arts Midwest World Fest

    Oskaloosa hosts Arts Midwest World Fest

    OSKALOOSA, Iowa — This week, musicians from the West African country of Ghana are performing in a central Iowa town as part of a program aimed at engaging communities across the globe through the arts. 

  • Mayor Duggan join city officials, artists, and community members to celebrate completion of the 200th City Walls mural

    Detroit Mural Map, which documents all the city’s murals, is the fastest growing in the nation, according to CANVS, with more than 600 Detroit murals and artist biographies logged on the map  City Walls has worked with artists – most from Detroit – to turn blight to beauty since 2017  Mayor Mike Duggan joined city leaders,…

  • Pass the Mic: Teaching the truth about African American history and culture

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  • Announcing the 2023 Soros Arts Fellows

    NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today announced the recipients of their 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships, the preeminent award supporting socially engaged art. This year marks the fellowship’s largest cohort, awarding $100,000 to 18 mid-career artists for impact-driven art projects that propose bold solutions to address the climate crisis, reclaim and uplift indigenous knowledge, and imagine…

  • Arts Consulting Group Recruits New Leader for the New England Museum Association

    Arts Consulting Group Recruits New Leader for the New England Museum Association

    October 24, 2023 – Boston-based search firm Arts Consulting Group (ACG) has assisted in the recruitment of Kayla Coleman as the new executive director of the New England Museum Association (NEMA). Wyona Lynch-McWhite, senior vice president, and Geoff Chang, vice president, led the assignment for the search firm. “The NEMA staff and board are thrilled to welcome Kayla…

  • Luminous City Final Saturday set for Oct. 28 in Mansfield

    Luminous City Final Saturday set for Oct. 28 in Mansfield

    MANSFIELD — The first downtown Luminous City Final Saturday event will take place on Saturday, Oct. 28, with an Artist Popup, Beergarden, and Live Music Event. The event will be hosted at the art installation and venue “Luminous City” located in studio parking lot by Mankind Murals Inc. This event is open and all are…

  • creative:impact

    creative:impact

    Creative industries in Washtenaw County add hundreds of millions of dollars to the local economy. In the weeks and months to come, host Deb Polich, the President and CEO of Creative Washtenaw, explores the myriad of contributors that make up the creative sector in Washtenaw County. John Bommarito / 89.1 WEMU Creative Washtenaw CEO Deb…

  • Cultural collaboration between remote Kimberley art centres

    Cultural collaboration between remote Kimberley art centres

    WARNING: This story features the names and of Aboriginal people who have died. Among the north-western region’s red escarpments, deep gorges and winding river systems, where heat shimmers across the windswept desert jila, marshlands and spinifex plains, a group of art centres align with a shared purpose through the guidance of cultural practice.  In speaking to the…

  • A Perspective on Increasing Unionization in the Arts and Culture Sector

    A Perspective on Increasing Unionization in the Arts and Culture Sector

    Right now, our country is experiencing a historic resurgence in union organizing. For example between October 2021 and September 2022, there was a 53% increase in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Meanwhile, according to the Economic Policy Institute, an estimated 60 million nonunion American workers were interested in unionizing…