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Report: St. Pete arts nonprofits generated $132 million in 2022
November 20, 2023 – According to a new Arts & Economic Prosperity study from the group Americans for the Arts, St. Petersburg arts and culture nonprofits generated $132.5 million in economic activity during 2022 – $61.6 million in spending by arts and culture organizations, and an additional $70.9 million in event-related expenditures by audiences. That…
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Radcliffe Bailey, Artist Who Explored Black Migration, Dies at 54
His work blended family photographs with symbols of the African diaspora. The story he told, his gallerist said, is “not a ‘me’ thing, it’s a ‘we’ thing.” The artist Radcliffe Bailey at the High Museum in Atlanta in 2011, when it presented an exhibition of his work.Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times Radcliffe…
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11 Things To Do Around D.C. This Thanksgiving Week
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Funding secured for new Sacramento State event center
By Brian Blomster November 20, 2023 Funding has been approved for Sacramento State to create an events center that will be home for the University’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, women’s volleyball and gymnastics teams, and intramural and club sports competitions. It also will be a venue for entertainment, arts and guest speakers. The event…
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Grad’s adoption story set stage for poignant play that is part art, part life and all heart
The 2023 premiere of Liam Monaghan’s autobiographical play was a powerful, if bittersweet, rite of passage. Strange/Familiar, written for his MFA in theatre practice at the University of Alberta, is what he calls an “auto-fictional” depiction of growing up queer in an adoptive Catholic family, and coming to terms with his identity. Didi’s Playhaus, where…
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Remembering Radcliffe Bailey Through Radical Black Art
by Ida Harris November 20, 2023 Radcliffe Bailey’s prolific work developed unique narratives of the African American experience On Wednesday, Nov. 15, it was announced that visual artist, Radcliffe Bailey died of brain cancer 10 days before his 55th birthday. Bailey’s prolific work developed unique narratives of the African American experience through a distinctive visual…
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A new hope for struggling Fresno artists? ‘We just want a room to paint in’
Adrianna Sorondo never wanted to leave Fresno. The 35-year-old artist says her hometown, where she grew up admiring the sculptures that once adorned the city’s bygone pedestrian mall, has always been a major influence on her work. “It’s an artists’ city,” she said, “whether it’s recognized by the city at large or not.” But Sorondo…
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City of Red Bluff celebrates completion of new downtown mural
RED BLUFF, Calif. — The town of Red Bluff held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday for their newest downtown mural, which was completed on November 6. The painting, located in the center of Cone and Kimball Plaza, depicts the peak of Mount Lassen and a ‘flicker’ bird in flight. Funded through a state grant, the…
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This interactive online exhibit by Google Arts & Culture makes Hindi cinema more accessible than ever before
There is a playlist on my Spotify account that I am very proud of. Titled pain, death and smirnoff, it is eight and a half hours of old Bollywood songs, ranging from Kishore Kumar yodelling to a melancholic Jagjit Singh crooning about missing his childhood. Surprisingly—considering the playlist is over eight hours long—I am very…
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LACA Art of Giving Holiday Artist Market opens Nov. 24
News Advocate Staff Nov. 20, 2023 . Submitted photo/Ludington Area Center for the Arts LUDINGTON — The Ludington Area Center for the Arts third annual Art of Giving Holiday Artist Market will open for the holiday season on Nov. 24 in the art center’s main gallery. The Art of Giving Holiday Artist Market allows area artists an…
