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How do murals get made? We followed an artist from start to finish in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG — On a gloomy, rainy Monday, Max Sansing had to prime the wall on the back of the church facing Fifth Avenue North. A rainbow of spray paint cans sat inside a storage pod, waiting to be used. Max Sansing selects an orange spray paint while working on his mural from a bucket…
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Tri-Valley Lions Club arts student of the month
The Tri-Valley Lions Club honored Emma Shadle as the October Outstanding Student of the Arts. Emma was selected for her talent in the area of instrumental music and visual art. Emma is a daughter of Corey and Jennifer Shadle, Hegins. She is a senior at Tri-Valley High School in the academic curriculum. She has played…
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Midtown in Motion
The largely empty buildings in the Midtown Campus give the impression of something like a ghost town. In some buildings, chairs and tables are still arranged in classrooms last occupied by the teachers and students in 2018. On the lower floor of the Fogelson Library, books stand neatly in their proper order, spines aligned on…
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Sabrina Krueger’s Fall 2023 School of the Arts winning sticker effortlessly encapsulates happiness and humanness | University of Nevada, Reno
By: Jesse Rosenberg University of Nevada, Reno student Sabrina Krueger won the Fall 2023 School of the Arts Sticker Contest. Selected by a panel that includes representatives from both the School of the Arts and the Nevada Museum of Art, Krueger’s artwork, “Happy,” has been immortalized in an equally as amiable of a medium –…
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Jacqueline Surdell: Adoration Garden
Invited by Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA) to create an exhibition that engages with the gallery space of the museum, Jacqueline Surdell, presents Adoration Garden, an installation that includes two-large sculptural works made of rope and cord and a series of small altarpieces, which are in part an homage to her late grandmother…
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Braided Temporalities: A Review of 35th Bienal de São Paulo (And A Recap of Past Highlights)
Torkwase Dyson, partial view of “Blackbasebeingbeyond,” 2023. Courtesy Fundação Bienal de São Paulo/Photo: Levi Fanan. I have been attending the São Paulo biennials since I moved here in the early 1980s. The event is one of the pillars of my views as an art historian after going to college abroad and having always loved art…
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Lovie Olivia’s Interdisciplinary Work Pushes Boundaries by Ignoring Them
“Forest,” Lovie Olivia It is the persistent question asked of artists but answered mostly by the ecosystems surrounding them: What do you call your work? Is it assemblage? Collage? Found sculpture? Is it a tapestry? You call that a painting? Lovie Olivia, a self-described autodidact, calls it work. Beauty as a Method, Olivia’s solo show…
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Good news in the district
School district, educator receive state recognition for visual arts The School District of Philadelphia has been named an Outstanding Visual Arts Community from the Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA).
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Two more programs on chopping block as part of TRU’s visual arts shakeup
Photo: TRU Two additional Thompson Rivers University certificate programs have been placed on the chopping block alongside the university’s visual arts programs. University senator Craig Jones said during a meeting Monday that the certificate of literary and art history and the drawing and painting certificate are being added to the proposed elimination of visual arts…
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Community invited to submit art for upcoming exhibition
The Department of Visual Arts is inviting the Brock and wider community to submit their artworks to be considered for an upcoming community art sale and exhibition at Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. The Department of Visual Arts (VISA) is encouraging the Brock and wider communities to showcase their artistic…