Category: Visual Arts

  • Visual storytelling and arts festival draws to a close in Edinburgh

    Visual storytelling and arts festival draws to a close in Edinburgh

    A festival celebrating visual storytelling is drawing to a close in Edinburgh this weekend. The Edinburgh-based Manipulate Festival is in its 17th year and showcases performance work and animated films from across Europe. Highlights of the event included Pickled Republic, an existential piece about pickles, comedy-horror puppet piece The House and La Conquete, an object…

  • Gallery: Pärnu sees Finnish Heljä, Viggo Wallensköld’s first joint art show

    Gallery: Pärnu sees Finnish Heljä, Viggo Wallensköld’s first joint art show

    Since the turn of the century, Viggo Wallensköld has emerged as one of Finland’s most outstanding painters. His and his mother Heljä’s roots, however, can be traced back to the Pärnu area, where a museum in Estonia’s biggest coastal city just opened the mother-son duo’s first ever joint exhibition. Around a century earlier, Wallensköld’s grandmother…

  • Art Walk by Alan Huck “Joy”

    Art Walk by Alan Huck “Joy”

    The goal of these articles is to inform the public about the many unique visual arts in Florence, and the many stories they have to tell.  A strange thing happened to me when I was walking past the Siuslaw Public Library. A voice called out to me.  A gentle voice said, “Hey you! Over here!” The…

  • Bodies in Rest and Motion

    Bodies in Rest and Motion

    art by Liz Kennedy, poster by Connor Sheehan Bodies in Rest and Motion 8 AM, ongoing daily from January 11, 2024 until May 9, 2024. Encinitas Community and Senior Center All Ages Free San Diego artist, Liz Kennedy, opened a solo show this month with the City of Encinitas Visual Arts Program: “Bodies in Rest…

  • Convicts and killers: What one man’s colourful family history tells us about ourselves

    Convicts and killers: What one man’s colourful family history tells us about ourselves

    Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist Archie Moore has revealed the first details of the work he will present at the prestigious 60th Venice Biennale. Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose were tight-lipped about the specific form of the work to be installed in the Australian Pavilion. They disclosed it…

  • MCASD: Play Day

    MCASD: Play Day

    Photography: Jenna Selby Play Day Get Tickets Sunday, February 11, 2024 from 10 AM to 1 PM Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: La Jolla All Ages Free Join us on Free Second Sunday for Play Day! “Kelly Akashi: Formations” features a series on the inherited impact of her family’s imprisonment in a Japanese American incarceration…

  • Art Exhibit: Kati Rosenbaugh & Lynn Stephenson | 2/11/2024 | Event Calendar

    Sunday February 11 Sunday, February 1110AMCity Opera House, TCArt Enjoy contrasting visual arts mediums & styles – each taking inspiration from the beauty of northern Michigan. The exhibit runs from Jan. 7 – Feb. 29 with an Artist Reception on Jan. 11 from 5-7pm in the Harry A. & Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lobby on…

  • An exhibition that explores AI, culture, and what it means to be an artist today

    An exhibition that explores AI, culture, and what it means to be an artist today

    Technology and art have long overlapped, but talk about crossovers between the two has skyrocketed since the eruption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although its artistic potential seems endless, the speed at which it seems to be disrupting the status quo has turned the question of how to adapt to this new reality into a pressing…

  • Indigenous art show arriving at Georgian’s campus gallery

    Indigenous art show arriving at Georgian’s campus gallery

    NEWS RELEASEGEORGIAN COLLEGE*************************Exploring the world and issues affecting contemporary Indigenous cultures is at the heart of the newest exhibition at Georgian College’s Campus Gallery. Running Feb. 15 to March 24, the exhibition, Over & Over & Over Again, will feature the art of the late Carl Beam, celebrated Ojibwe artist and recipient of the Governor…

  • New gallery, art studios, and recording studio open in February

    New gallery, art studios, and recording studio open in February

    Op-Ed Longtime Savannahians may know that Polk’s, the family-run produce business still in operation today, first started in the 1930’s in the old City Market. After the market was demolished in 1954 to make way for a parking garage, the store moved to the site of the current Vinnie Van GoGo’s, and then to Liberty…