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Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center hiring Maui-based Teaching Artists
December 8, 2023, 12:57 PM HST PC: Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center is seeking experienced Teaching Artists to support a wide range of arts programs for youth and adults; including arts outreach serving keiki and families in Lahaina. Hui Teaching Artists engage and encourage students of all ages to explore…
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Dawoud Bey’s Photographic Trilogy Of African American History at Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
Fights and films are famed for trilogies. Ali vs. Frazier. “The Godfather.” The visual arts are distinguished by one-off pieces. Singular masterpieces like Michelangelo’s Pieta, Picasso’s Guernica or Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. Dramatic in scope, stunning in execution, Dawoud Bey (b. 1953; Queens, NY) has created a photographic trilogy every bit as engrossing…
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Idaho Commission on the Arts accepting grant applications to artists, educators, apprentices
The Idaho Commission on the Arts announced it is providing financial support through grants to professional artists, arts educators and arts administrators. In a press release Wednesday, the commission said it is accepting applications for all of its annual grant programs, which include the following: Entry track grants support public programs in the arts delivered…
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Community voices support for Art House 360
Art House 360 – a nonprofit organization aimed at creating access and inclusion to arts education and programming – is hoping to sign a lease at the former New Century School building by the end of this month, a decision community members expressed support for during a Nov. 13 Common Council meeting. Art House 360…
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MFA opens its new Judaica gallery on the first night of Hanukkah
Just a few moments after we meet, Simona Di Nepi, the Museum of Fine Arts’ first-ever Curator of Judaica, makes a matter-of-fact point: “I’m Jewish,” she says, “but my master’s degree is in late medieval Sienese crucifixions.” It’s a sort-of confession, by way of explanation. “Judaica, or Jewish art, Jewish visual culture, has not been…
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Visual Arts Review: “Fashioned by Sargent” — Round Two
By Peter Walsh Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy patrons or was there more to him? John Singer Sargent, Nonchaloir, or Repose (1911). Photo: National Gallery of Art Two Arts Fuse critics were interested in reviewing the same show— Fashioned by Sargent, currently at the Museum of the Fine Arts…
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When Nature Breathes: Environment takes over in utopian alternative reality
Visual Arts When Nature Breathes: Environment takes over in utopian alternative reality Friday December 08 2023 Mohamed Rabie’s Oil Painting painting, Remnants of the city at Gravitart Gallery on December 4, 2023. PHOTO | POOL When Nature Breathes is Mohamed Rabie’s response to all the conflict, violence, and chaos that human beings have inflicted on…
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Main Street Art Gallery to spotlight Rosemary Gerbutavich
CONWAY — The MWV Arts Association’s Main Street Art Gallery at 16 Norcross Circle, North Conway Village will be highlighting the watercolor paintings of Rosemary Gerbutavich with a reception on Saturday, Dec. 9, from noon to 4 p.m. Gerbutavich has been a lifelong lover of visual arts and since her retirement, she has been able…
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Glossy fruit and ghostly dresses, as Gathie Falk: Revelations looks back on art that uplifts the ordinary
VANCOUVER ARTIST Gathie Falk has called her work a “veneration of the ordinary”—and there’s no better example than the lowly cabbage lifted up to new heights in an expansive new retrospective showing at Whistler’s Audain Art Museum. Eighteen of the humble crucifers have been rendered in green-glazed ceramic, leaf by meticulous leaf. The vegetable would…
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New York Bound? Seek Out These 6 Art Shows
Since the holiday season triggers trips to New York City, here are write-ups of six art exhibitions now at Manhattan museums — in north-to-south order — for your short list. The big show is “Manet/Degas,” on view through Jan. 7 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.). The crowded, maze-like…