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‘Methodology for healing’: Hanes visiting artist shares ancient wisdom through art
In a video performance she shared called “Lix Cua Rahro / Tus tortillas mi amor” — in English, “Your tortillas, my love” — the artist speaks Q’eqchi’while she grinds corn with her mouth to make tortillas. She then shapes and presses the tortillas with a heart stamp and fills them with blood from a wound on her finger. Parth…
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Thai textile artist Jakkai Siributr weaves social commentary into his works
Through patchwork, embroidery, beadwork, stitching and adorning them with daily objects such as Thailand’s ubiquitous religious amulets, Jakkai offers different points of view about gender, identity and equality. “Silent = Death”, “Come Out Now”, and “We Will Not Be Erased”, works by Jakkai Siributr on loan from the Sunpride Foundation for the exhibition at Chat…
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A celebration of female art
During the 1990s, female artists had limited opportunities and space to showcase their work. But in 1995, a group of such women, including Jittima Pholsawek, Mink Nopparat and Phaptawan Suwannakudt, organised an exhibition titled “Tradisexion” at Concrete House. The show was praised as a “new dimension” in the contemporary art scene. Its success led to…
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£1m to transform Sunderland children’s access to arts and culture
NEW £1m three-year programme to use arts and culture to help transform the lives of children and young people living in poverty in Sunderland will launch next year. The Culture Start programme will be supported by a £1.196m Place Partnership award from Arts Council England through the National Lottery and will benefit more than 8,000…
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Bush House Market in Crestview to feature arts and crafts, live music
CRESTVIEW, Fla. (WKRG) — A showcase featuring arts and crafts, cottage industry foods, and gently used items is coming soon to the Hub City of Northwest Florida. The Bush House Market is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Wilson Street parking lot adjacent to the Bush House. EVENT…
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Special event for Ireland at UN HQ in New York to mark an historic moment for the nation 100 years ago
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, will open the exhibition. Entitled ‘On an Equal Footing with All, Ireland at the League of Nations 1923-1946’ it marks the centenary of Ireland’s membership of the League of Nations, the first worldwide state-level political organisation, created in the aftermath of the First…
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This Week in Culture: November 20
William Kentridge, The World is Leaking, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery. Welcome to This Week in Culture, a weekly agenda of show openings and events in major cities across the globe. From galleries to institutions and one-of-a-kind happenings, our ongoing survey highlights the best of contemporary culture, for those willing to…
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CTAC Holiday Art Show & Sale presents 118 pieces of artwork
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } When a local art gallery initiates a call for art, artists show up and the gallery walls are illuminated with colorful pieces and inspirational artwork. The Chisholm Trail Arts Council (CTAC) returned for its sixth annual Holiday Art Show…
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Music Hall’s Robin Albert: ‘Communities just don’t work without volunteers’
PORTSMOUTH — Robin Albert of Portsmouth feels right at home in a theater. She has volunteered at The Music Hall for 15 years. “My background is in the arts, in theater, so volunteering in the arts brought me back to my origins,” she said. She grew up 12 miles from Manhattan. Her mother was a…
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Native American arts center in Eastern Oregon welcomes new leader
For more than 30 years, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts has operated inside a small, 19th-century stucco building that was once a Catholic mission on the Umatilla Reservation in Eastern Oregon. In October, Phinney Brown became the organization’s executive director and a big part of her job will be to lead a capital campaign…