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ROTHENBURGER: TRU decision to axe visual arts programs fails the community
I somehow doubt there was a groundswell of support on campus for axing the programs, but board Chair Marilyn McLean didn’t try to sugar coat it — it’s about money. Dollars from visual arts will go elsewhere. She says the programs coming under the guillotine haven’t suffered declining enrolment; they’ve always had low enrolment. In…
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Making sense of the Museum of Fine Art’s latest exhibit in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG — Sorry, folks, but I can’t give you a complete review of “The Nature of Art” at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. It’s not for lack of trying. I’ve been to see it twice, but new artwork continues to be added and I can’t keep returning. I have a feeling most…
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WARREN: Catch some inspiration at Crary Art Gallery
WARREN — Two living examples of inspiration will showcase their art at Crary Art Gallery from Saturday through March 3. Nate Jeffery teaches art at Penn West Edinboro, Penn State Behrend and the State University of New York – Jamestown Community College (SUNY JCC) even though doing so wasn’t his original goal. He said, “One…
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Thompson Rivers University axes fine arts program
Any doubt that was left as to the fate of Thompson Rivers University’s visual arts program disappeared Monday evening with a vote by the university’s board of governors. The board voted 6-2 to discontinue TRU’s visual arts major, minor, diploma and certificate, which will be phased out over the next three years. The decision is the…
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EDITORIAL – TRU decision to axe visual arts programs fails the community
<img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47294" data-attachment-id="47294" data-permalink="https://armchairmayor.ca/2022/02/24/editorial-letter-critical-of-tru-renaming-is-no-help-for-reconciliation/tru-sign1-copy1/" data-orig-file="https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg" data-orig-size="1240,930" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="tru-sign1-copy1" data-image-description data-image-caption=" (Image: Mel Rothenburger.) ” data-medium-file=”https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=300″ data-large-file=”https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=620″ class=”size-large wp-image-47294″ src=”https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=620&h=465″ alt width=”620″ height=”465″ srcset=”https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=620 620w, https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg 1240w, https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=150 150w, https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=300 300w, https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=768 768w, https://armchairmayor.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/tru-sign1-copy1.jpg?w=1024 1024w” sizes=”(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px”> (Image: Mel Rothenburger.) An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, education and the arts are…
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Hatteras Island community is encouraged to contribute to Estuaries Magazine: A Visual Arts and Literary Review
“Bald Eagle II” by Taylor Newton was featured in a previous edition of Estuaries Submissions are still being accepted for Estuaries: A Visual Arts and Literary Review, and while the January 31 deadline is imminent, Editor Jill Lettieri hopes that the Hatteras Island community will contribute, and contribute in earnest. Estuaries is an annual visual arts…
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How The Art Room in Denton provides a creative way of healing
When Marlys Lamar feels stress, she reaches for a piece of paper. Today, she scribbles “Need money for The Art Room’’ on a white letter-size sheet. She flips it over and runs her pen across the paper, tracing in all directions without breaking contact. Advertisement “Wherever you have some kind of crossing, some kind of…
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Deadline approaching for crane-inspired creative arts scholarship contest
The deadline for submissions to the Crane-inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest, sponsored by Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition (CCCC), is Feb. 16. CCCC invites all high school seniors in Routt and Moffat counties to submit an original piece of written or visual art inspired by the Rocky Mountain population of Greater Sandhill Cranes to the CCCC Crane-inspired Creative…
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UNG schedules spring art exhibits
The University of North Georgia will see four exhibits this spring lasting through June. “Emergence” by artist Kirsten Stingle is on display at the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery at the Gainesville Campus now through March 8. Stingle’s work has been shown internationally, including a piece currently displayed in Paris. She was at the gallery…
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Visual Arts Commentary: The Problematics of Multiculturalism at the MFA — On The Dallin Front
By Trevor Fairbrother Boston’s MFA owns the ethical and cultural dilemma about the location of Cyrus Dallin’s monumental statue Appeal to the Great Spirit, acquired as a gift in 1913. Onlookers view Cyrus Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit from the sidewalk in 2021. Photo: Peter Gordon The necessary work charted by the multiculturalism movement of…
