Category: Visual Arts

  • FCC art exhibit to show ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ of college’s Black history

    FCC art exhibit to show ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ of college’s Black history

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } From the early days of its history, Frederick Community College has been an important source of advancement for the county’s African American population. A special Black history art exhibit at the college this month will show that progress for…

  • New At The Gallery: The Eros Exhibition – The New Paltz Oracle

    New At The Gallery: The Eros Exhibition – The New Paltz Oracle

    Photo courtesy of Ava Simone The Gallery in New Paltz hosted its third show on Feb. 16, called the Eros Exhibition.  The Gallery is a unique opportunity for artists to easily share their art with others. “There’s nothing for visual artists that you don’t need connections to get into, so that’s really what we were…

  • New media artist and educator Agnes Chavez named 2024 guest artist

    New media artist and educator Agnes Chavez named 2024 guest artist

    New media artist Agnes Chavez will bring her creative approach to integrating art, science and technology to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She has been named 2024 guest artist by the Fermi Research Alliance. Based out of Taos, New Mexico, Chavez will focus on particles called neutrinos during her tenure, creating…

  • Rachel Foster’s ‘Empathetic Objects’ at Grove Gallery

    Rachel Foster’s ‘Empathetic Objects’ at Grove Gallery

    The works in Rachel Foster’s current exhibition, “Empathetic Objects” at Grove Gallery in Walker’s Point, on view until March 23, beg the viewer to take them for granted. They hide in plain sight like purloined letters in a digital parlor, only before eventually revealing their nature … and our relationship to the nature of their…

  • Arts Listings: Week of 2/22/24

    Arts Listings: Week of 2/22/24

    Some classes, exhibits and events are available exclusively online. All events are subject to change and cancellation; always verify with venue and/or organizer. OPENING THEATER PARADE | Feb. 24-March 24. Actors’ Repertory Theatre of Simi presents the hit musical based on the true story of a Jewish factory worker falsely accused of rape and murder…

  • 20 Caraga artists honored in first-ever regionwide creative fest

    20 Caraga artists honored in first-ever regionwide creative fest

    BUTUAN, Philippines – Twenty artists in the Caraga region took center stage as they were honored in the first-ever Creative Caraga Festival held to recognize and celebrate the achievements of prominent region-born and -based homegrown creatives across various fields on Tuesday, February 20. Dubbed the Creative Caraga Awards, it was part of the festival organized…

  • Artist Kanika Mukerjee creates landscapes by strips of discarded cloth

    Artist Kanika Mukerjee creates landscapes by strips of discarded cloth

    Give artist Kanika Mukerjee an old fabric and she turns it into a work of art. Ahead of her solo show Landscape in Cotton at Goethe Zentrum in Hyderabad, the Gujarat-based artist explains how Nature, an integral part of her life, inspired her to acquire a new medium of expression. She uses discarded fabric, mostly…

  • Online art fairs prove their renewed value for small galleries

    Online art fairs prove their renewed value for small galleries

    Online art fairs may have been consigned to memory since the post-Covid surge back to in-person events but they can still play a significant role — particularly for galleries lower down the food chain. Data from the winter edition of Artsy’s Foundations fair, which closed on February 14, brought compelling results for some of its…

  • Gateway student art show slated for March

    Gateway student art show slated for March

    The Friends of the Monroeville Public Library will host an art exhibit by Gateway School District students grades kindergarten through 12 at the Elaine Biondi Gallery Space March 1 – 26. The show is organized by Gateway High School Visual Arts Department chair Greta Severson. “The annual Gateway School District art show is a long-held…

  • Arte Viva Celebrates Art of Tapestry Weaving

    Arte Viva Celebrates Art of Tapestry Weaving

    Currently on exhibit throughout February at the La Petite Galerie for the Center for the Arts is the “Frecuencias Elementales” by Margarita Angel. Margarita is from Cali, Colombia. She calls herself a visual creator, and her works reflect a harmonious blend of traditional and contemporary expression. According to Margarita, she is a self-taught tapestry weaver…