Category: Visual Arts

  • Bank of Estes Park is proud to support the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies.

    Bank of Estes Park is proud to support the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies.

    Bank of Estes Park is proud to support the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies.  Its mission is to celebrate the arts through music, theater, visual arts and youth programs (since 1958!) in Estes Park.  For more information on its mission, history, upcoming events, or on how to financially support them, please go to www.fineartsguild.org,…

  • Visual Arts report with Pat Douglas

    Visual Arts report with Pat Douglas

    Here with the latest visual arts report is visual arts correspondent Pat Douglas.

  • Florida Tech Art Club opens its first-ever art gallery

    At a university where the primary focus is STEM, the Florida Tech Art Club is one outlet students use to express their creativity with the visual arts.  The Florida Tech Art Club was established in 2020, and it is hosting its first art gallery in Evans Library. Josh Mearig On March 6, the club set…

  • Walgreens art challenge empowers teens in towns across America

    Walgreens art challenge empowers teens in towns across America

    If teenagers search for an artistic contest, they may stumble upon an unexpected turn down the digital aisles of the internet called the Expressions Challenge by Walgreens.  Far removed from the assumed Walgreens drugstore shopping, this contest offers young artists a platform to explore and confront pressing issues like mental health, social justice and identity…

  • Unprecedented Growth: A Review of “Through the Hothouse” by Aimée Beaubien at HPAC

    Unprecedented Growth: A Review of “Through the Hothouse” by Aimée Beaubien at HPAC

    Aimée Beaubien, detail of “Through the Hothouse,” 2023, Hyde Park Art Center/Photo: Frank Geiser If you spent an hour simply walking back and forth through the second-floor hallway in the Hyde Park Art Center that “Through the Hothouse” occupies, you might find something new every time you passed through Aimée Beaubien’s ninety-two-foot-long immersive installation. ““Through…

  • Stitching stories: What to do with the past?

    Stitching stories: What to do with the past?

    Ruth Ross, “The People’s Oy,” at Art in the Cave in Vancouver, Wash. STORY and PHOTOGRAPHS by FRIDERIKE HEUER “If nostalgia as a political motivation is most frequently associated with Fascism, there is no reason why a nostalgia conscious of itself, a lucid and remorseless dissatisfaction with the present on the grounds of some remembered…

  • Band of Vices: Curating art as an form of empowerment

    Band of Vices: Curating art as an form of empowerment

    Sydney Wanguhu Works are shown to the public at Band of Vices from Wednesday to Saturday between noon and 5 p.m. .sno-story-photo-area { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } .sno-story-photo-area img { object-fit: contain; } .sno-story-photo-area .sno-story-photo-image-area { height: unset; max-height: unset; background: #dddddd; } .sno-story-photo-area .sno-story-photo-image-area img { height:…

  • Art Matters: Jenny Holzer’s ‘125 Years’

    Art Matters: Jenny Holzer’s ‘125 Years’

    Jenny Holzer (B. 1950)“125 Years” 2003Granite and landscaping mixed media Location: The Woodland Walk diagonal through Hill Square In 2003, the Women’s Sculpture Project transformed the Hill Field open space bounded by 33rd, 34th, Walnut, and Chestnut streets into Hill Square. The installation incorporates landscaping and lighting that accentuate a poplar-lined, curving brick walkway dotted…

  • Father Fannie Fills His ILY2 Too Mall Funhouse With Sparkles, Workshops, and Black Joy

    Father Fannie Fills His ILY2 Too Mall Funhouse With Sparkles, Workshops, and Black Joy

    If you’ve been paying attention, you already know that Portland’s Lloyd Center Mall has become, in the past few years, a haven for local arts, culture, and civic initiatives. Inside the convalescing shopping center, a patchwork of trademark mall culture standbys like Hot Topic and Cinnabon coexist alongside Secret Roller Discos in the former Marshalls,…

  • Annual Brock Visual Arts exhibition opens at local culinary hot spot

    Annual Brock Visual Arts exhibition opens at local culinary hot spot

    Participating artists from the Brock’s Department of Visuals Arts gathered at the opening reception of the Department of Visual Arts Annual Juried Exhibition at Dispatch Restaurant on Wednesday, March 6 to share their creative work with the local community. Brock’s Department of Visual Art (VISA) is inviting the community to enjoy its Annual Juried Exhibition…