Category: Visual Arts

  • Come in for a Filipino ‘Group Hug’ at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

    Come in for a Filipino ‘Group Hug’ at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Entering “Group Hug,” a new interactive installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, is like stepping inside a tequila sunrise. The walk-through piece is blanketed in orange and pink lighting. New York-based artist…

  • Cowichan South Arts Guild — Connecting community through the arts

    Cowichan South Arts Guild — Connecting community through the arts

    Editor’s note: This story appeared in the February edition of the South Cowichan Connector, a publication for and about the South Cowichan Valley. Look for our March edition starting March 7. Pablo Picasso once said that art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. First founded in 2016, the Cowichan South Arts…

  • Dr. Alison Fields to deliver Lockmiller Art History Lecture

    Dr. Alison Fields to deliver Lockmiller Art History Lecture

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } By East Central University Dr. Alison Fields will deliver East Central Universities annual Lockmiller Art History Lecture on Tuesday, March 5 at 3 p.m. in the Pogue Gallery, located inside the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. This year’s…

  • Jennifer JL Jones. Echoes of elysium

    Jennifer JL Jones. Echoes of elysium

    “Echoes of Elysium” is Jennifer JL Jones’ newest solo exhibition to open in South Florida. Art, that silent custodian of the human odyssey, articulates in a spectrum of hues and a caress of textures where language ends, weaving the intangible into a tapestry of visual sonnets. Here, amidst the stillness, Jones stands as a weaver…

  • Art of darkness

    Art of darkness

    Melissa Neil isn’t afraid of the dark. For her latest exhibition of paintings, she was drawn to the night. Neil works in a wonderfully simplified style, a lifelike one that borders on the abstract. Lifelike, because she paints landscapes inspired by specific places, and almost abstract, because she reduces the land to ambiguous shapes and…

  • Ocean of glass: Sand delivers shimmering magic for glass artist Kim Campbell

    Artist Kim Campbell fuses technique and form to create layers of colorful textured glass that evoke emotions as deep as the ocean. As Tallahassee and Leon County celebrate Women’s History Month in March, Campbell’s latest collection “Women in Art” will be exhibited at the Bruce J. Host Northeast Branch Library. Surprises found in the sand…

  • Celebrate Women’s History Month with these Kansas City art exhibitions

    Celebrate Women’s History Month with these Kansas City art exhibitions

    This story was first published in KCUR’s Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. Women’s history and contributions should be celebrated throughout the year. But there is nothing wrong with dedicating a month for some extra spotlight on the brilliant trend-setters in all walks of our lives.…

  • On being an artist in Wales: Paul Edwards

    On being an artist in Wales: Paul Edwards

    ‘Self portrait with reflection of self’ by Paul Edwards (1975) Paul Edwards It’s 1975 and I’m in Newport, a guitar-playing longhaired student at Newport College of Art, I’m making a drawing, a self portrait. I remember how intoxicating it felt, being at art school, that you could draw and paint all day every day –…

  • The Sherborne: Historic house arts venue hosts first exhibition

    The Sherborne: Historic house arts venue hosts first exhibition

    .hide-when-no-script { visibility: hidden; } David Martin Sherborne House was previously used as a school A Georgian mansion that is being transformed into an arts venue has opened its first exhibition. The Sherborne, at Sherborne House in Dorset, is due to officially open in May after a multimillion-pound restoration project. Paintings by Paul Jones are…

  • Well Versed: Dittmar Gallery 2024 Community Art Show 3/3/2024

    Well Versed: Dittmar Gallery 2024 Community Art Show 3/3/2024

    When: Sunday, March 3, 2024All day   Where: Norris University Center, Dittmar Gallery, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it Audience: Faculty/Staff – Student – Public – Post Docs/Docs – Graduate Students Cost: Free Contact: norris dittmar gallery   (847) 491-2348 Group: Dittmar Memorial Gallery Category: Fine Arts Description: Well Versed is an invitation…