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‘Never be afraid to make mistakes’: Minkwan Kim on designing visuals for YouTube Music
If you listen to just a few episodes of Creative Boom podcast, you’ll start to see a pattern emerging. When asked, ‘What first got you interested in design?’ so many leading practitioners will give the same answer: music. That sounds like a bit of a paradox because music is, well, aural, and design is mainly…
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Jesse Hay’s art displayed at The 1106 Gallery
Artist Jesse Hay’s fine art exhibition took place at The 1106, formerly Artisan Forge Studios, on Saturday, Feb. 10. Hay has 55 pieces on display through February at the studio. Hay’s complex, abstract paintings drew a number of people to the local gallery on Saturday night. His work features a variety of soft tones, unique…
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Student art on display tonight in N.K.
The “Entangled Limelight” exhibition in Gallery North at North Kingstown High School. The show featuring six Jamestown students will be open to the public from 5-6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15. The opening reception is today for an exhibition at North Kingstown High School that features the artwork of six Jamestown students. The reception for “Entangled…
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‘Eye Me’ is a meaningful, gorgeous exploration of Black, queer lives in South Africa
Zanele Muholi, “Zazi I & II Boston,” 2019. Photo: Bader + Simon Collection ; © Zanele Muholi Before the analytical brain kicks in, the beauty and emotionality of Zanele Muholi’s portraits strike the viewer. The South African artist, who uses they/them pronouns, presents their subjects with both a tenderness and, at times, austerity that reveal some…
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War artist Ben Quilty on painting children, ‘the victims of our collective adult insanity’
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Ben Quilty has always tried to make sense of the world through art. Even when there’s no sense to be made. “That’s why people have always made art,” he says. “It’s a way of coming to terms with who you are and why you’re here.” <img alt="Ben…
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The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council is now accepting applications for the 2024 Scholarship & Grant programs – Local First Media Group
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The “Sequel” sequel: in search of student work to showcase
Simpson’s student-run literary and visual arts magazine, the Sequel, is accepting submissions for the 2023-2024 edition through Feb. 28. Faculty Advisor Jeremy Griffin is excited to continue the publication’s legacy of promoting students’ creative work. “I know there’s a lot of students, whether they’re regular writers or artists or it’s something they dabble in, they…
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The Intimacy of the Everyday
From a young age, Oscar Morel exhibited an interest in feeling, touch, and texture. “My mom used to call me Toca Mano — her nickname for ‘touchy’ — because whenever I would walk I’d touch walls or play with plants and get allergic reactions,” he says. Oscar Morel, one of this winter’s Fine Arts Work…
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Intimate Moments on Public Display
From a young age, Oscar Morel exhibited an interest in feeling, touch, and texture. “My mom used to call me Toca Mano — her nickname for ‘touchy’ — because whenever I would walk I’d touch walls or play with plants and get allergic reactions,” he says. Oscar Morel, one of this winter’s Fine Arts Work…
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R. Stranger MFA’24 combines creative writing and visual arts in their multimedia approach to art
R. Stranger MFA’24 incorporates visual work into their writing, striving to find their own personal channel of creating. Through PNCA’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, Stranger has been able to pursue cross-genre, collaborative work, combining prose, poetry, photography, film, archiving, and cataloging. “I needed to be in a writing program situated within an art…
