Category: Visual Arts

  • Creative Nexus seeking bold, diverse artists for interdisciplinary art justice project

    Creative Nexus seeking bold, diverse artists for interdisciplinary art justice project

    As organizations and small businesses brace for another wave of equity and inclusion rollbacks across colleges, government offices, and major corporations, a new artist development series, Creative Nexus, is emerging to support marginalized artists in Sarasota.  This series, spearheaded by Mosaic Movements and WSLR+Fogartyville, announced its Call for Artists for diverse creators to apply for…

  • Group Show Celebrates Artists Who Found Their Path at Fordham

    Group Show Celebrates Artists Who Found Their Path at Fordham

    The vast scope of artistic talent among Fordham grads was on display this fall in “Amarcord,” a group show featuring work by more than 30 visual arts alumni from the past three decades. Two of the grads also had solo shows running at New York and Philadelphia galleries this fall. “Sunset Turns South” by Teresa…

  • Fine Line opens exhibit reflecting on life’s impermanence

    <!– Fine Line opens exhibit reflecting on life’s impermanence –> The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles will host a reception on Thursday, Dec. 19, to open Dave Sobotka’s show ‘(r)evolutions’ in the Kavanagh Gallery. The reception will be 6 to 8 p.m. at the center, 37W570 Bolcum Road. As with all gallery…

  • A psychedelic solo journey on display at Leon Gallery

    A psychedelic solo journey on display at Leon Gallery

    It is easy to appreciate the paintings of Markus Puskar, with their swirling colors and shapes, their out-of-this world spirituality, their blatant and primitive references to sacred practices and the human body. A close-up detail of Markus Puskar’s painting ”Float.” (Ray Mark Rinaldi, Special to The Denver Post) The oil-on-canvas works, currently on display at…

  • Exhibit explores relationship between arts, the environment

    Exhibit explores relationship between arts, the environment

    The Giens Peninsula (Presqu’île de Giens) on the southern coast of France was home to a recent Brock artist residency organized by the University’s Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture. A group of researchers and artists are sharing creative works inspired by an artist residency in Hyères, France, in a new exhibition at Brock’s…

  • Top 10 art events in the Twin Cities in 2024

    Top 10 art events in the Twin Cities in 2024

    French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s projects spring from boredom, a desire to explore intimacy, a lack of intimacy, a fascination with other people and a deep pleasure in voyeurism. Her exhibition “Overshare,” curated by Henriette Huldisch, spans 50 years of the artist’s work and proposes the idea that Calle might have predicted the rise of…

  • Young people and the arts

    Young people and the arts

    I have been going to live shows for as long as I can remember. I remember going to the Palace Theatre here in Manchester as a kid to watch kids plays. While in college, my wife and I used to go to the Providence Performing Arts Center, (PPAC), and Trinity Repertory, (aka Trinity Rep), for…

  • State & Union: Arts Council hosts small work show

    State & Union: Arts Council hosts small work show

    OLEAN — Every artist and crafter begins with a dream — to create something beautiful and meaningful. Each piece is made with love, hoping to find someone who treasures it just as much as they do. Every purchase you make helps bring that dream to life. Not only are you supporting local artists and crafters,…

  • Anne Arundel’s elementary school artists shine at Winter Wonderland themed exhibit

    Anne Arundel’s elementary school artists shine at Winter Wonderland themed exhibit

    There are more than 275 pieces of art hanging on the walls of the ground floor of the Annapolis Mall, running from the Container Store to the Tropical Fish Tank. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here.

  • SAAC Hosts Reception for Arts Academy Students and Visiting Artist Douglas Daracott

    SAAC Hosts Reception for Arts Academy Students and Visiting Artist Douglas Daracott

    The South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado will be hosting an Arts Academy Student Art Reception on Tuesday from 5:30 -7:00 p.m. A news release from SAAC on Dec. 13 said, “This event will showcase the works of SAAC’s Arts Academy students, who have been exploring a diverse range of artistic disciplines throughout the…