Iris Nemani | Credit: Dahlia Katz Stanford Live, Stanford University’s main performing arts presenter, has announced the appointment of Iris Nemani as the organization’s next executive director. She will report to Deborah Cullinan, Stanford’s vice president for the arts, who is currently acting director of Stanford Live. Chris Lorway, who served as the previous director…

Can art aid in healing? Portrait Project is using AI, traditional art to find out ‘People in the medical humanities space already understand how art can be helpful in patient recovery, but a lot of medicine is really data- and finance-driven,’ said Brian R. Smith. Author Alan TothPublished on December 5, 2023December 5, 2023 .essb_links.essb_template_clear-retina…

Leonard Pryor, “North End” (1950), oil on canvas, 46 1/4 × 34 1/4″ (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) Launched in September 2021 as part of Missouri’s bicentennial celebration, Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951, is a free website created through a partnership between the Kansas City Art Institute’s Jannes Library, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of…

The Prebys Foundation on Tuesday, Dec. 5, announced the award of 147 grants totaling $30.6 million to organizations in San Diego County in four program areas: visual and performing arts, youth success, healthcare and medical research. About half of the grantees are first-time recipients of Prebys Foundation grants. “When we announced the foundation’s strategic plan…

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The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition, Inc. (CCC) has launched a Crane-Inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest. CCC is inviting all high school seniors in Routt and Moffat counties to submit an original piece of written or visual art inspired by the Rocky Mountain population of Greater Sandhill Cranes to the CCCC Crane-Inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest.  The 2024 contest offers two categories. The first category focuses on…

During the 1940s and ’50s, influential critic Clement Greenberg helped catapult Jackson Pollock to art-world stardom with reverential reviews of the abstract expressionist’s innovative, action-based paintings. It wasn’t until 1961 that Greenberg revised his seminal 1955 essay “‘American-Type’ Painting,” to mention that in 1944, he and Pollock had, in fact, visited a gallery where they…

Layer upon layer of stained and unstained woods come together to create artist Joshua Abarbanel’s depth-ridden artworks. In the name of examining creation and impermanence, Abarbanel uses forms and natural patterns evocative of biological, botanical, geological, and even mechanical structures. Further inspiration is derived from fractals, accretive formations (the accumulation of particles into a massive…

Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk, a celebration of visual art, music and writing, will begin at noon and continue through 8 p.m. Saturday. New exhibits open with refreshments, drinks and treats at this monthly downtown event. Angi D Wildt Gallery, 106 10th St. In three galleries on the 10th Street block between Astor Street and…