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Washington People: Monika Weiss
[embedded content] Experience “Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture),” Monika Weiss’ new commission for St. Louis’ Laumeier Sculpture Park. (Video: Whitney Curtis/WashU) The forest is never silent. Winds blow, leaves rustle, trees creak and sway. Music arises slowly, beneath the birds and crickets and katydids. The electronic hum washes outward from two steel columns. Sound burbles like water, clangs like…
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How art and nature intersect at the Creative Creatures event
This is a paid piece from the Sioux Falls Zoo and Aquarium. Simplified: Local artists will share their work – inspired, in part, by the beauty of butterflies and sea creatures – during an upcoming event hosted by the Butterfly House and Aquarium. Here’s what you need to know about Creative Creatures. Why it matters…
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Nummerdor’s work will be featured at Thrasher Opera House exhibit
Abstract work such as this by Mikaela Nummerdor will be on display at Thrasher Opera House through Dec. 31. submitted photo Green Lake’s historic Thrasher Opera House will host an exhibit through Dec. 31 featuring the work of Wisconsin-based artist Mikaela Nummerdor. Mikaela Nummerdor This exhibit may be viewed Monday to Friday from 10…
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Visual Arts Review: Wading through “Deep Waters” at the MFA
By Kathleen Stone By juxtaposing different artistic approaches, the past with the present, Deep Waters offers a fresh way to consider what we humans have done to the ocean, to the creatures that depend on it, and to each other. Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea at the Museum of Fine Arts, through November…
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Chocolate Church Arts Center gives life to the inanimate through its puppet lab
What started as a fun prototype over the summer transformed into a staple program for the nonprofit Chocolate Church Arts Center by incorporating puppets into its art programs and events. Over the past several months, the program has birthed nearly 10 puppets unique to Bath, which were made alongside the mask-making for the monster garden…
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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Presents Martha Diamond: Deep Time
Martha Diamond is among the most perceptive painters of the last five decades. Her work’s formal concision and painterly bravado reflect an inner dialogue with generations of abstract artists, and the results demonstrate an inimitable handling of gesture and space that reimagines the landscape tradition while deftly sliding between abstraction and representation. Comprised of paintings,…
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Holiday Arts Gifts: Emporia Arts Center to host Annual Holiday Art Gifts
The Emporia Arts Center is thrilled to present its annual Holiday Art Gifts in the Trusler Gallery and Glaser Art & Gift Store, located at 815 Commercial Street. This festive art sale runs from November 23rd to December 21st. Discover unique and meaningful gifts crafted by over 75 talented artists showcasing work in a variety…
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Respected Cherokee artist Virginia Stroud dies at age 73
TAHLEQUAH – Virginia Alice Stroud, a Cherokee-Muscogee Creek painter and a well-respected member of the Native American art community died Nov. 8 in Tahlequah. She was 73. Stroud and her adopted sister Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa) were instrumental in reviving ledger art in the 1970s. In the 1960s, the Cherokee tear dress was invented for Stroud…
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vanessa german on her Logan Center exhibition
Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with artist vanessa german about her new solo exhibition, “At the end of this reality there is a bridge—the bridge is inside of you but not inside of your body. Take this bridge to get to the next _______, all of your friends are there; death is not real and…
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McRae duo featured as Artists of the Month
LAURINBURG — The Arts Council of Scotland County (ACSC) has resumed their Artist of the Month series featuring husband and wife duo Jonathan and Jennifer McRae for November. Jonathan’s art form is drone photography. His photos focus mostly on coastal shots featuring piers and bridges, often with the setting or rising sun as a backdrop.…