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Wyoming Arts Council Announces Free Creative Aging Training for Wyoming-based Teaching Artists
Aubree Lynn Wallace, Teaching Artist at 7th Street Studio in Laramie, providing guidance to Creative Aging students in a clay hand-building course. Courtesy photo In partnership with Lifetime Arts, the Wyoming Arts Council is now accepting applications from Wyoming teaching artists to participate in a free virtual training to learn how to design, develop, and…
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Fostering Creativity: Arts and Culture Programs in Ocean City Schools
The importance of fostering creativity cannot be overstated. Arts and culture programs have proven instrumental in nurturing students’ creative capacities, offering them a diverse and holistic educational experience. In the context of Ocean City Schools, incorporating such programs can transform students into well-rounded individuals with essential skills for the future. Introducing a spectrum of art…
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Free State pioneers its own visual arts development programme for creatives
Itumeleng Nthoba, Thiwe Ranthimo, Vusi Sihlangu TRENDING: From 8 to 10 December, Welkom in the Free State will be home to visual and performing arts veterans and hopefuls as the inaugural Vuka Arts Free State Creatives Summit gets under way. Aspiring artists from the province’s five districts will go up against each other to make…
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A Soft New World
Photo: Sabrina Santiago It is not common to feel totally at ease in an art gallery, those aloof empty spaces that amplify the sound of your breathing, the thwack of your boots, the sting of the security guard who reminds you when you lean in too close to squint at the descriptive placards. But visual…
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Buy from Detroit artists this holiday season instead of large corporations
<a href="https://media2.metrotimes.com/metrotimes/imager/u/original/34837759/img_5756-1920×1080.png" rel="contentImg_gal-34837722" title="From Playground Detroit's COMM[UNITY] II on view until Jan. 14. – Playground Detroit" data-caption="From Playground Detroit’s COMM[UNITY] II on view until Jan. 14. Playground Detroit” class=”uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle”> click to enlarge Playground Detroit From Playground Detroit’s COMM[UNITY] II on view until Jan. 14. I was so close to getting my mother to agree not to…
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Miami Art Week’s Satellite Fairs Defy Expectations
How can you even begin to summarize the massive amount of art on display during Miami Art Week? Besides the main fair, Art Basel, there are more than a dozen concurrent art fairs, each offering a unique snapshot of contemporary art and design. Throughout this week, I attended a handful of new and returning fairs…
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DAEOC’s Malone Park Center for the Arts opens Tuesday in Historic Downtown Sikeston
Joey Hayes, director of the Malone Park Center for the Arts in Sikeston, prepares for their eight-week adult course, “Learning Elements of Painting,” which begins Tuesday, Dec. 12. (Gina Williams/Standard Democrat) SIKESTON — The Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation, or DAEOC, will unveil a new era of community engagement as its regional community and cultural center,…
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Chair of MFA in Visual Art program – e-flux Education
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is accepting applications for Chair of the MFA in Visual Art (MFA-VA) program. This ten-month, tenured or tenure-track full-time appointment begins August 2024 with a three-year renewable term as chair. In addition to administrative responsibilities, the role includes teaching the…
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PhD programme in Visual Art and Design – e-flux Education
PhDArts offers an international, high-level doctorate in artistic research for visual artists and designers. PhDArts is a collaboration between the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) at Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands. The PhDArts research trajectory consists of two elements: supervision of individual research and…
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Artist and philanthropist Vuslat Doğan Sabancı talks taste
My personal style signifiers are feathers, which I wear on accessories – hats, belts and necklaces – or clothing. My wedding gown was made of white feathers. I feel like I have the guardianship of nature when I wear them; that I’m connected to the spirit world. I have a beautiful pair of feathered earrings that…