Category: Visual Arts

  • Benson’s birds: AAM art exhibit explores vintage prints

    Benson’s birds: AAM art exhibit explores vintage prints

    A new exhibit at the Academy Art Museum in Easton highlights sporting, waterfowl and bird prints from American artist Frank W. Benson.          Featured Local Savings   

  • Two new Native American sculptures flank the MFA’s entrance

    Two new Native American sculptures flank the MFA’s entrance

    For more than a century, just one statue has stood outside the Museum of Fine Arts Huntington Avenue entrance. As of Thursday, there are now three. Two new sculptures by internationally renowned artist Alan Michelson, a Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River, offer a contemporary and authentic portrayal of what it means…

  • Everett Public Schools art teacher awarded state award

    Nicole Dibble, Museum Art Educator of the Year. Contributed by Everett Public Schools. EVERETT, NOV. 15: Art teacher Nicole Dibble from Madison Elementary School was honored this month with a prestigious Washington State Museum Art Educator award.  The award is given to an employee or volunteer that stands out above and beyond all their peers…

  • Community Talent on Display at ARTumn Showcase

    Community Talent on Display at ARTumn Showcase

    Following months of renovations, the Ferst Center for the Arts reopened on Nov. 4 with the launch of the ARTumn Showcase.  The exhibit features various mediums, including paintings, photography, digital printed art, 3D sculptures, and visual AI modeling.   Daniel Parker, director of the Office of the Arts, said the exhibit marks a new chapter…

  • FAVA’s 45th Annual Members’ Show Connects Oberlin Community Through Art

    FAVA’s 45th Annual Members’ Show Connects Oberlin Community Through Art

    Firelands Association for the Visual Arts is hosting its 45th annual Members’ Show through Dec. 8 to exhibit local art in the Oberlin community.  For the last 45 years, FAVA has showcased the work of members of all ages and experience levels once a year, inviting the Oberlin community to view the creations of FAVA…

  • 50th annual Cleveland Symposium: “Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts”

    50th annual Cleveland Symposium: “Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts”

    Both as a physical dimension and a subjective concept, time defines human existence and experience—evident in visual production across eras and places. This year’s Cleveland Symposium takes time as its theme to celebrate the milestone of its 50th anniversary. Presented by the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University in partnership…

  • Rigor and Playfulness: A Review of Luiz Sacilotto at MAC USP

    Rigor and Playfulness: A Review of Luiz Sacilotto at MAC USP

    Luiz Sacilotto “Concreção 5629,” 1956, synthetic enamel on aluminum, 26.8″ x 31.5″ x 0.2″/Photo: MAC USP On December 9, 1952, a group of seven artists (five of foreign origin and two Brazilians) opened an exhibition of abstract “concrete” art, that is, a strand of abstract geometric art based on European constructivism, at the São Paulo…

  • Visual Arts Interview: Brookline Sculptor Murray Dewart on his Show at the Boston Sculptors Gallery

    Visual Arts Interview: Brookline Sculptor Murray Dewart on his Show at the Boston Sculptors Gallery

    By Ed Symkus The 75-year-old Brookline sculptor has been exploring many sides of his chosen craft since his days as a senior at Harvard. And he was already dabbling in all sorts artistic endeavors long before that. Murray Dewart is one of those creative folks who had explored working in many mediums and with numerous…

  • New exhibit opening at Saint Meinrad

    New exhibit opening at Saint Meinrad

    Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery, St. Meinrad, will host an exhibit of ceramics by Br. Martin Erspamer, OSB. The exhibit titled “New Works in Redware” will run from Nov. 19 through Jan. 8. This exhibit explores traditional and multi-fired glazes. The works include medieval Persian Turquoise, variations on the honey yellow from folk pottery, and…

  • Return to Neo-Tokyo: Akira Exhibition Explores Legendary Anime World

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