Category: Visual Arts

  • River City Brass Band merges music with visual arts in Pictures at an Exhibition

    River City Brass Band merges music with visual arts in Pictures at an Exhibition

    River City Brass Band will marry music and art during performances across the region in April, including shows in Greensburg and Bethel Park. The beloved River City Brass Band (RCB), which also has the distinction of being the only professional full-time brass band in the country, is bringing a unique performance to four locations in…

  • Astonishing Propositions of Momentary Liberation

    Astonishing Propositions of Momentary Liberation

    The kids are at play. They’re on swings and trampolines. These contraptions allow them to fly, even if only for split seconds. They’re resisting gravity, getting out from under its thumb. But it is hard to tell if what we’re witnessing is their defiant ascent or the fall that comes when gravity inevitably asserts itself…

  • Edmonds Arts Festival Gallery Arts announces this year’s jurors

    Edmonds Arts Festival Gallery Arts announces this year’s jurors

    Edmonds Arts Festival jurors, clockwise from upper left: Chris Holt, Che Lopez, Barbara Wyatt and James Lorentson The 67th annual Edmonds Arts Festival, to be held June 14-16, has announced its jurors for the 2024 Gallery Arts portion of the festival. Jurors select Gallery Arts participants and will award $10,000 in prizes across all categories.…

  • Preview: Western students debut exhibit at SATELLiTE gallery

    Preview: Western students debut exhibit at SATELLiTE gallery

    Take a step into a world of pure imagination — made up of rock pigments, recycled paper, still frame film and projectors. Tia Bates and Danielle Petti, first year Masters of Fine Arts students at Western University, are showcasing their duo exhibit Momentarily Unstuck at SATELLiTE Project Space in downtown London until March 23.  The…

  • Cultural administrator David Silcox was a champion of Canadian art

    Cultural administrator David Silcox was a champion of Canadian art

    Open this photo in gallery: David Silcox, sitting in his home in Toronto, on Sept. 4, 2013, wanted to make Canada more receptive to art and help ensure that artists could earn a decent living in the country.Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail David Silcox knew everybody: the art dealers, artists, critics, collectors, heads of…

  • VAA members will be showing artwork on Sunday at Lake Sumter Landing

    VAA members will be showing artwork on Sunday at Lake Sumter Landing

    Members of the Visual Arts Association will be showing artwork from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 24 at Lake Sumter Landing Market Square. There will be more than 35 artists with creative and unique varieties of many art forms such as paintings, sculpture, photography, glass fusion and more. In addition, those attending the show…

  • LU students showing off art in new exhibition

    LU students showing off art in new exhibition

    THUNDER BAY — Showcasing pieces for the first time, students in the visual arts program at Lakehead University are preparing for an exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.  Two exhibitions are taking place at the gallery: a juried exhibition that will be on display until April 28 and the honours exhibition that runs from…

  • Broad selection in the current Pathways exhibit – The Martha’s Vineyard Times

    Broad selection in the current Pathways exhibit – The Martha’s Vineyard Times

    The Pathways Art Space in Chilmark is currently brimming with art — pieces from eight Island artists working in a variety of media, along with photographs of the last curated dance piece that Pathways founder Marianne Goldberg staged before her passing in 2015. The exhibit, which will hang for the rest of the season at…

  • ‘Catching Fireflies’ art, poetry event at Vose Library

    ‘Catching Fireflies’ art, poetry event at Vose Library

    UNION — Vose Library presents original artwork by Argy Nestor on exhibit during March and April. Creating art has been a part of Nestor’s fabric for as long as she can remember. In 2021, she and Jean Feldeisen united art and poetry, resulting in their book “Catching Fireflies,” published in September 2023. Vose Library’s patrons…

  • PS Ph.D. candidate, Miro Spinelli, reperformed

    PS Ph.D. candidate, Miro Spinelli, reperformed

    PS Ph.D. Candidate, Miro Spinelli, reporforming “Pancake” by Brazilian Visual Artist Márcia X – Photo by Fabio Souza, MAM-Rio PS Ph.D. candidate, Miro Spinelli, reperformed “Pancake,” one of the most iconic works by Brazilian visual artist Márcia X on March 9th. He was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM) to…