Category: Visual Arts

  • ASC Welcomes Gavin Kelly as New Member

    ASC Welcomes Gavin Kelly as New Member

    Based in Los Angeles, new member Gavin Kelly, ASC has shot a wide array of feature, episodic, commercial and music-video projects around the world. A native of San Diego, Calif., Kelly won two student Emmys (National Student Production Awards) as an undergraduate visual-arts major at the University of California-San Diego and went on to earn…

  • What to know about the Birmingham Museum of Art’s new contemporary curator

    What to know about the Birmingham Museum of Art’s new contemporary curator

    Educator and art historian Jade Powers is nearly two months into her tenure as the new Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Powers, who holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and religious studies from DePauw University and a master’s degree in religious studies from Indiana University, arrived at…

  • Astoria Visual Arts to host conversation with Shoalwater Bay artists

    Astoria Visual Arts to host conversation with Shoalwater Bay artists

    ASTORIA — A panel of Shoalwater Bay artists will hold a 1 p.m. Saturday discussion at Astoria Visual Arts. This event is part of the gallery’s ongoing exhibit, “Portrait of Eugene Landry — an Artist, a Time and a Tribe,” which brings together the artwork of Landry (1937-1988) with contemporary woodwork, photography, painting, beadwork and…

  • Rethinking, Re-tilling Landscape Art

    Rethinking, Re-tilling Landscape Art

    In a city rife with artists working in the vein of traditional landscape painting, and often with considerable skill and sensitivity, the exhibition New Landscapes Part I, at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery, stands apart and offers alternative visions. More precisely, the show offers six alternative contemporary landscape variations — the number of artists and artworks in…

  • Talking with Glasstire Contributor Emma S. Ahmad

    Talking with Glasstire Contributor Emma S. Ahmad

    This is the seventh in a series of interviews with regular Glasstire contributors. Not only does it seem right to show off the talent behind this magazine (because really, our writers keep us going), but this series provides an opportunity for you, our readers, to learn more about our writers and their other endeavors. Because…

  • 2023 Home & Loggia Calendar: A sampling of events in Palm Beach and vicinity

    2023 Home & Loggia Calendar: A sampling of events in Palm Beach and vicinity

    ‘Here’s a sampling of upcoming events and exhibits for the 2023-24 season in Palm Beach and vicinity focusing on topics related to the home and garden. Please call ahead to confirm dates, admission prices, ticket availability and any health protocols. HOLIDAY EVENTS AT WHITEHALL Christmas Tree-lighting at Whitehall, noon-5 p.m. Dec. 3, Flagler Museum, Cocoanut…

  • The Cultural Landscape 12: Special Edition

    The Cultural Landscape 12: Special Edition

    Text and Photographs by K.B. DIXON As with the portraits in the previous installments of this series, I have focused on the talented, dedicated, and creative people who have made significant contributions to the art, character, and culture of this city and state. In this “Special Edition” installment, however, I have narrowed the field of…

  • Wisconsin Arts Board donates to Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha

    Wisconsin Arts Board donates to Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha

    FOR THE KENOSHA NEWS The Wisconsin Arts Board has awarded the Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha a $6,000 grant to run teen arts programs to help ensure every teen is exposed to, and has the opportunity to engage in, arts-based activities. The programs include Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and Applied Arts. “The generosity of…

  • Best Of Visual Artistry, Onaism at ‘Best Of Ife’ @30 Exhibition

    Best Of Visual Artistry, Onaism at ‘Best Of Ife’ @30 Exhibition

    Come Sunday 3rd of December to Saturday 9th of December, 2023, arts lovers and the alumni of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) from Arts Department will showcase 50 Art works in a celebration of the relevance and reflection of the arts in Nigeria. Holding at Fobally Art World Africa, Lekki Phase1, Lagos, the event will show…

  • Photographer Lukasz Spychala Makes Beautiful Magic (NSFW)

    Photographer Lukasz Spychala Makes Beautiful Magic (NSFW)

    “I try to get out of my comfort zone all the time, and I get inspiration from pretty much everything – from a book I read, from a walk, from a random conversation, a mural, or maybe even more from what feelings something triggered in me and how I can tell others about it through…