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Antigo Visual Arts teams up with Antigo FD to launch art project
ANTIGO, Wis. (WJFW) – Antigo Visual Arts (AVA) teamed up with the Antigo Fire Department (AFD) for an art display in the AFD apparatus bay, led by AVA artist Vicki Eldridge. Vicki is a creative artist who often uses recycled materials to make carved, award-winning totems and arts displays in the AVA gallery of the…
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Two Rivers Gallery announces new curator
Two Rivers Gallery has announced its new curator Ehsan Mohammadi. He is a folklorist and visual arts curator originally from Iran. His educational background spans folklore studies and English Literature, with a focus on post-humanism, power relations, and stigma in cyberspace, as well as postmodern American literature. In addition to his academic and curatorial pursuits,…
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Art therapy enriches lives
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Column Shell-Lee Wert jpg, BI Article content Today I am going to share some insight into the benefits of Art therapy. In the context of our agency, Arts-based therapy provides those recovering from a stroke with an outlet to express themselves through visual arts such as painting and sculpting. The use…
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Carrie Mae Weems Joins Gladstone, Departing Her Longtime New York Gallery in the Process
The celebrated photographer Carrie Mae Weems has joined Gladstone Gallery, which has locations in New York, Brussels, and Seoul. Through her new representation, Weems will depart New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery, which has shown her art for the past 15 years. Gladstone’s first exhibition with Weems will take place in the fall of next year…
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Cloud Swing Is Good Design Providing Accessible Play for All
Cloud Swing is monumental in many ways, but none more so than how the interactive public installation encourages accessibility and play for all. Two years in the making, Isometric Studio set out to prove that accommodating the disabled community in design is a must – not an afterthought. It is good design, not a barrier…
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Artist collective ‘Kitchen’ opens its studio
Artist collective Kitchen Studios launched its studio space last Friday, which the group hopes will become a hub for projects and collaboration. This comes almost nine years after Kitchen Studios first launched as a collective and in the years since they have continuously called for a premises. The studio in unit 6, 7, South Barrack…
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This Week in Art in Brazil: December 6, 2023
Carlos Bunga, 2020, “Occupy mocatoronto” Get Brazil art news sent to your inbox every Wednesday morning. Subscribe to Brazil Art Letter here. Bunga Joins Nara Roesler Leading gallery Nara Roesler has picked up representation of Carlos Bunga, whose work “Habitar el color” (2015–in process) is on display at the Bienal de São Paulo, which closes…
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Artist Michael Gac Levin Explores Parenthood in ‘Yellow Brick Road’
click to enlarge Courtesy Of Hexum Gallery “Date Night”; At Hexum Gallery in Montpelier, the current exhibition is titled “Yellow Brick Road,” but it’s not about The Wizard of Oz. Rather, the term that suggests a magic-strewn journey is a conceptual portal through which we might view Michael Gac Levin’s paintings and drawings. Nothing is…
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‘We Tell Stories’: second edition of The Kingdom Photography Award launched by the Visual Arts Commission
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – The Visual Arts Commission, under the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture, is thrilled to announce that registration for the highly anticipated Kingdom Photography Award is officially open. Embarking on its second edition, this award encourages photographers based in Saudi Arabia to capture their everyday lives and share their unique perspectives. By creating…
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“A Call to the Ancestors” Ponders, Honors Those Who Came Before Us
It all started when Carl-Philippe Juste, the storied Miami Herald photojournalist, was asked to help create an exhibit about the nearly forgotten Lincoln Memorial Park cemetery, the resting place of many early African-American Miamians. The 2018 Coral Gables Museum show, “Caretakers,” celebrated those who stepped up, often without pay, to help maintain the Brownsville site,…