Category: Visual Arts

  • Art Collector Spotlight: Jon Shirley and Kim Richter Shirley

    Art collectors Kim Richter Shirley and Jon Shirley. Courtesy Kim Richter Shirley and Jon Shirley Former president, COO and director of Microsoft (MSFT) Jon Shirley, 84, discovered Alexander Calder when he was a student at The Hill preparatory school outside of Philadelphia. He took a three-year humanities class that covered literature, poetry, drama, architecture and…

  • B-UHS Fine Arts Students of the Week: Katrina Tenney and Alex Jarvis

    B-UHS Fine Arts Students of the Week: Katrina Tenney and Alex Jarvis

    Each week Buckhannon-Upshur High School features two Fine Arts Students of the Week to highlight the work students are doing in the art world. Visual Arts Student of the Week: Katrina Tenney Grade: 12th grade Student Organizations/Ensembles/Clubs/Arts Activities (in-school): President, B-UHS NAHS (National Art Honor Society) member for two years Student Accolades (Academic & Fine…

  • Under Pressure: 2024 National Printmaking Exhibition || News

    Images Jennifer Clark, Long Shadows Links The Lincoln Center Art Gallery is participating in Colorado’s Month of Printmaking (Mo’Print), March 2–April 13, 2024, by presenting Under Pressure: 2024 National Printmaking Exhibition, a nationally juried exhibition of work by 32 artists consisting primarily of any printmaking media (relief printing, lithograph, silkscreen, intaglio, and monoprints). Selections for…

  • Galleries at LynnArts to host audio-visual performance

    Galleries at LynnArts to host audio-visual performance

    Audience members will be able to immerse themselves in an audio-visual experience at the Galleries at LynnArts during a show next month that will explore themes of artificial intelligence, global warming, societal transformations, and nature.  Soundscape Visions, a group of artists and musicians who share a passion for exploring the fusion of visual art and…

  • Artist wanted: Thrift for Good Denton accepting submissions for mural

    Thrift for Good Denton is seeking submissions for a new mural competition to beautify its location, and bring awareness and opportunities to explore to the city’s east side. The mural contest winner will be awarded $3,000 upon completing the mural, and up to four finalists to be awarded $250. The painted mural will be on…

  • Artist wanted: Thrift for Good Denton accepting submissions for a new mural

    Artist wanted: Thrift for Good Denton accepting submissions for a new mural

    Thrift for Good Denton is seeking submissions for a new mural competition to beautify its location and bring awareness and opportunities to explore on the city’s east side. The mural contest winner will be awarded $3,000 upon completing the mural, and up to four finalists will be awarded $250. #placement_594923_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;} Thrift for Good Denton…

  • Local artists bring concert, landscape photography and Native couture to CSU – College of Liberal Arts

    Local artists bring concert, landscape photography and Native couture to CSU – College of Liberal Arts

    This February, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University proudly presents Pharaoh 171 x Red Berry Woman: Photography + Fashion, featuring photographer Joseph “Sagonige Yanasi” Pekara (Pharaoh 171) and designer Norma Baker-Flying Horse (Red Berry Woman). The exhibition is on view February 16 to May 12 in GAMA’s Main and Works on Paper…

  • Spring Visual Arts Preview

    Spring Visual Arts Preview

    Share via: National Building Museum    Opened Jan. 21    Curated by children’s book historian Leonard S. Marcus, a founding trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and featuring environments created by author-illustrators David Macaulay (“Cathedral”) and Oliver Jeffers (“What We’ll Build”), “Building Stories” is an immersive exploration of the world of architecture, engineering,…

  • Lorraine O’Grady — challenging the either/or in ‘Both/And’ exhibit – The Bay State Banner

    Lorraine O’Grady — challenging the either/or in ‘Both/And’ exhibit – The Bay State Banner

    Lorraine O’Grady (American, born 1934). Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters I), L: Nefernefruaten Nefertiti; R: Devonia Evangeline O’Grady, 1980/1994. Cibachrome photographs, 26 × 37 in. (66.04 × 93.98 cm). Edition of 8 plus 1 artist’s proof. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Renowned conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady, 89, a Roxbury native whose West Indian…

  • Hippotizer Drives Intricate ‘Unikko’ Projections at LUX Helsinki Festival

    Hippotizer Drives Intricate ‘Unikko’ Projections at LUX Helsinki Festival

    <!– –> Hippotizer Drives Intricate ‘Unikko’ Projections at LUX Helsinki Festival <!– –> <!– –> Finland – The celebrated LUX Helsinki light festival took place at venues across the Finnish capital during January, with a highlight being the specially created projection mapped visual display onto the intricate façade of the National Gallery Ateneum. The looping, five-hour…