Category: Visual Arts

  • St. Lawrence County Studio Tour

    St. Lawrence County Studio Tour

    WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) 36th Annual Artists’ Studio Tour Saturday & Sunday | November 4th & 5th 10-4pm Step inside the artistic process this fall! SLC Arts and the arts community of the North Country are excited to announce the 36th annual Artists’ Studio Tour, where community members are invited into artists’ home or professional…

  • North County photographer among 95 exhibitors at annual Art San Diego fair this weekend

    North County photographer among 95 exhibitors at annual Art San Diego fair this weekend

    The route to Benjamin Rinenbach’s career was not direct, even though photography has been a lifelong passion. “I’ve always been fascinated by photography,” said Rinenbach, 46, an award-winning Rancho Bernardo photographer. “Since I was a kid, before I could read, I was looking at ‘National Geographic’ magazines, fascinated by the pictures.” Throughout his life, in…

  • The Newly Reopened NMWA Offers a Museum-Going Experience Powered by Advocacy

    The Newly Reopened NMWA Offers a Museum-Going Experience Powered by Advocacy

    After being closed to the public for nearly two years for a $70 million renovation project, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has reopened with improved research facilities, enhanced accessibility and several thousand more square feet for displaying art. But NMWA is not a place for a stuffy historical survey kept at…

  • Blind Montco Artists To Be Featured At Upcoming Exhibition

    Blind Montco Artists To Be Featured At Upcoming Exhibition

    Montgomery County Community College will host an exhibition, workshop, panel discussion,and musical performance celebrating the artwork of photographers who are blind orvisually impaired and their sighted collaborators. The “Blind Visionaries” series of events kicks off Thursday, Nov. 2 from 1-3 p.m.with “Blind Visionaries – Workshop: Painting with Light” in the gallery at the BlueBell theater…

  • Artist Daniel Richter: ‘I feel like I’m in the bakery and throwing cake around’

    Artist Daniel Richter: ‘I feel like I’m in the bakery and throwing cake around’

    In the past 30 years the work of German painter Daniel Richter has rarely stood still. Throughout his career he has probed pattern and gesture, swung between abstraction and realism, and captured the disquiet of modern Europe. When I ask the artist if he ever gets tired of asking himself what’s next, he responds in…

  • In Corsicana, long lost photos become a show about small-town Texas

    In Corsicana, long lost photos become a show about small-town Texas

    Imagine an old family photo album you’ve never seen before. What would you learn? Who would you even recognize? Now imagine an entire town discovering an old family album. Thousands of personal photos and negatives were discovered in 2019 in Corsicana. The photos had been shot, developed — and never claimed. They sat in boxes,…

  • Dates set for annual Delaware Arts Fest

    Dates set for annual Delaware Arts Fest

    Dates set for annual Delaware Arts Fest The 49th Delaware Arts Festival, located in downtown Delaware, will welcome all for the two-day family friendly event May 18-19, 2024. The Delaware Arts Festival is a nonprofit organization with two beneficiaries. To further their visual arts education, three Delaware County high school art students divide $20,000 in…

  • AT UNT, brutalist architecture remade with a soft touch

    AT UNT, brutalist architecture remade with a soft touch

    The staircase is among the most basic of architectural elements, yet one that lends itself to creative expression. Are the steps wide or narrow, steep or gentle, deep or shallow? What shape or material is chosen for the banister and rails? The options are infinite, though architects too often settle for the familiar. One firm…

  • November 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

    November 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

     Opportunities November 1, 2023 Colossal Mural by Adele Renault Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at [email protected]. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. $3,500 Artist Grants |…

  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith affirms Native American heritage at the Fort Worth Modern

    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith affirms Native American heritage at the Fort Worth Modern

    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is what author and journalist Gail Sheehy called “a triumphant personality,” someone who has seen off circumstances that would have extinguished lesser lights. Born to a 14-year-old mother and a much older father in a Jesuit mission on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she was destined to scoop up the learning of…