Category: Visual Arts

  • Art Partnership Provides Benefits to Both Artists and Patients

    Art Partnership Provides Benefits to Both Artists and Patients

    Since 2015 the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art has partnered with Mosaic Life Care for the Art Experience Galleries at MLC. Galleries and hallways throughout the hospital are filled with work by area artists on a six-month rotation. The entry fees from artists support the work of the AKMA, while the employees and visitors at MLC…

  • Climate Activists Throw Soup at the ‘Mona Lisa’

    Climate Activists Throw Soup at the ‘Mona Lisa’

    Protesters throw soup at the Mona Lisa‘s protective glass covering at the Louvre on January 28. David Cantiniaux / AFPTV / AFP via Getty Images A pair of climate activists splattered soup onto the Mona Lisa at Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday. The orange liquid landed on the painting’s bulletproof glass casing, and the Renaissance…

  • Art Exhibit: Kati Rosenbaugh & Lynn Stephenson | 1/30/2024 | Event Calendar

    Art Exhibit: Kati Rosenbaugh & Lynn Stephenson | 1/30/2024 | Event Calendar

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  • Deadline approaching for Crane-inspired arts contest

    Deadline approaching for Crane-inspired arts contest

    The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition is inviting 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 for the nonprofit’s Crane-inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest. The 2024 contest offers two categories, with the first focusing on…

  • TRU board votes to phase out fine arts programs over next three years

    TRU board votes to phase out fine arts programs over next three years

    Photo: KTW file UPDATE: 6:18 p.m. Following months of discussion, Thompson Rivers University has decided to discontinue its visual arts programs. The university’s board of governors voted Monday to phase out its visual arts major, minor, diploma and certificate over the next three years. Marilyn McLean, TRU board chair, said the programs have suffered perpetually…

  • 16th Fajr Visual Arts Festival kicks off at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

    16th Fajr Visual Arts Festival kicks off at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

    TEHRAN-The 16th Fajr Visual Arts Festival kicked off at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) on Sunday. Organized under the slogan “Innovative, Creative, Unifying, and Hopeful Art,” the festival offers 771 artworks of different mediums by 517 artists in two competitive and non-competitive sections, the secretary general of the festival said at the opening…

  • Lance G. Newman II brings style and substance to Louisville Visual Art exhibit

    Lance G. Newman II brings style and substance to Louisville Visual Art exhibit

    The reason and concept behind longtime poet Lance G. Newman II’s first solo visual art exhibition is jarring and topical: He believes words don’t mean as much as they used to. In an artist’s statement for the show “A Thousand Words” — which runs at Louisville Visual Art through Feb. 3 — Newman wrote, “I…

  • Life in Miniature

    A cloaked figure guards the stone castle. Several lanterns scattered across the grounds illuminate a nearby forest encircling the structure. Everything appears normal, but there’s something odd. Everything seems so … tiny. Take a few steps back and it all makes sense. Created by Richmond miniaturist Sky Burkson, the scene is just one of many…

  • Printmaking show rises above politics to show process rather than propaganda

    Printmaking show rises above politics to show process rather than propaganda

    There are just handful of museums and galleries I recommend to people without even knowing what they are showing at the moment, places where the art or the architecture are so consistently well-presented that every visit is a guaranteed good time. The Denver Art Museum is on the list for sheer volume, as are the…

  • Art Matters: ‘Fields of Transformation’ by Claudy Jongstra

    Art Matters: ‘Fields of Transformation’ by Claudy Jongstra

    The Moelis Grand Reading Room, where students study near “Fields of Transformation.” Claudy Jongstra (B. 1963)“Fields of Transformation” 2017Wool and silk mural Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 3420 Walnut St., First Floor, Moelis Grand Reading Room “Fields of Transformation” is an abstract felted mural described by the artist as a visual representation of knowledge evolving…