Category: Visual Arts

  • Get first look at cool new installations downtown

    Kimiya Factory watches the digital reflections of her movements projected onto screens behind and below her while playing on a large trampoline floor in “Quantum Trampoline” by Kuflex. It is one of five new additions to Hopscotch, the interactive gallery downtown.  Marvin Pfeiffer/Staff Photographer The folks at Hopscotch know how to stick the landing. The…

  • Portuguese Artist Joana Vasconcelos Exhibits At Art Geneve This Weekend

    Portuguese Artist Joana Vasconcelos Exhibits At Art Geneve This Weekend

    Visitors to the 12th edition of Art Genève art fair held at Palexpo in Geneva until January 28, 2024, will be greeted by the multicolored, monumental textile sculpture “Valkyrie Mumbet”, suspended in the main entrance hall, one of a series of emblematic “Valkyries” paying tribute to the war goddesses of Norse mythology created by Joana…

  • Visual Arts Center Of New Jersey To Open Exhibitions Celebrating Gallery Aferro

    This February, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will present exhibitions that celebrate the Newark-based arts organization Gallery Aferro, which recently closed its doors after 20 years. Funded by visionary artists and changemakers Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox, Gallery Aferro was a platform for the exchange of ideas in service of advancing human…

  • SOMA exhibit visualizes Black and Asian stories

    SOMA exhibit visualizes Black and Asian stories

    The relationship between Asian and Black Americans has long been fraught. From the 1991 murder of Black teenager Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du, a Korean American convenience store owner in Los Angeles, to the recent overturning of Affirmative Action. Ex // Top Stories

  • SFA School of Art to host exhibition of works by Stringer

    SFA School of Art to host exhibition of works by Stringer

    An exhibition by artist Hiromi Stringer, “The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century,” opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House and shows through March 23. NACOGDOCHES, Texas – An exhibition of works by San Antonio-based Japanese…

  • Department of Philosophy and Humanities to Host Veroni Lecture on Kindness

    Department of Philosophy and Humanities to Host Veroni Lecture on Kindness

    The Department of Philosophy and Humanities is preparing for a Veroni Lecture discussing kindness and the effects of being kind to others. Professor Cheshire Calhoun, a professor of philosophy from Arizona State University, will be speaking. Professor Calhoun was a two-term chair of the American Philosophical Association’s board of officers and currently serves as the faculty…

  • A/E: Military mind focused on fine arts

    A/E: Military mind focused on fine arts

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } In the U.S. Army’s Eleven Bravo (11B) ground combat infantry, Matthew Gilliland was the only true visual artist in his outfit. Today, he may be the only bust-down-doors-and-blow-things-up soldier in his Master of Fine Arts program at the University…

  • LCVA welcomes back Art After Dark

    LCVA welcomes back Art After Dark

    LCVA welcomes back Art After Dark Published 8:48 am Friday, January 26, 2024 The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) welcomes bustle textiles founder Ashley Webb as host of its first Art After Dark of the new year. The exclusive gallery talk will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 6 p.m.  This program…

  • New Year, New Space! The Hermitage’s newly renovated Goode Family Visual Arts School is now open

    New Year, New Space! The Hermitage’s newly renovated Goode Family Visual Arts School is now open

    We are thrilled to announce the return of classes and programs to the newly renovated Goode Family Visual Arts School! The VAS offers an ongoing schedule of art courses and workshops throughout the year to fit all interests, ages, schedules, and skill levels. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist looking to hone your…

  • OZ Arts Nashville Presents “May I Be Brave Enough to Speak My Truth” visual arts exhibit

    OZ Arts Nashville Presents “May I Be Brave Enough to Speak My Truth” visual arts exhibit

    An extension of Shabazz Larkin’s circulated collection from The Museum of Presence, “May I Be Brave Enough to Speak My Truth” explores the human body as a canvas for protest and storytelling. Central to the exhibition are woven blankets depicting figures in mutual support, a poignant representation of our ancestral bonds and future legacies. A…