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Local artists shine at biannual Art in the Park event
Over 100 talented artists display diverse range of creations, drawing art enthusiasts from across California PASO ROBLES — Over 100 artists filled Paso Robles City Park last weekend for the biannual November Art in the Park. The event, organized by Steve Powers and Company, has been a beloved fixture in the community for many years, drawing…
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Highland Gallery hosts Visual Art Faculty Exhibit
FREEPORT — The Highland Gallery will feature work by current Highland Visual Arts faculty members from Nov. 1 through Dec. 4 at the Ferguson Fine Arts Center. This annual Visual Art Faculty Exhibit shows recent work by faculty that is on display and available for contemplation, stimulation and discussion as a featured exhibit for the…
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Women in the Arts Festival Returns for 38th Year
Facebook Twitter The Women in the Arts Festival returns to East Lansing Friday (Nov. 10) and Saturday (Nov. 11) to celebrate women’s creativity through art, music and poetry. The 38th-annual event will be held at Edgewood United Church, 469 N. Hagadorn Road. The event has a long-running history, dating back to 1986. Last year’s event…
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Government of Canada launches survey on resale rights for artists
Resale rights for artists would benefit visual artists when their work is resold in Canada and in many countries GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 9, 2023 /CNW/ – Visual arts are a vibrant part of Canada’s culture and help us celebrate our shared heritage. Today, the Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, and the Honourable François-Philippe…
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Chicago’s Finest Black Artists Shine at the 23rd Annual Black Excellence Awards
Black Ensemble Theater Founder & CEO Jackie Taylor at the 23rd Annual Black Excellence Awards presented by the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago on November 6, 2023. Photo Credit: Out The Box Creative Group The best, brightest and most dynamic Black artists in dance, film, literature, music, theater, visual art and digital media…
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Stanley Whitney – How High the Moon: Opening Exhibit
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, the artist’s first career retrospective exhibition, which will open in the Buffalo AKG’s new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building on February 9, 2024. Organized by Cathleen Chaffee, the Buffalo AKG’s Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon traces the evolution of Whitney’s unique…
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WSU grad named artistic director at world-renowned Chatauqua enclave
Wright State University fine arts graduate Erika b Hess is the new artistic director of a world-renowned institution, one in which she spent time as a summer student several years ago. Hess, who is from Columbus and has a studio in New York, was named artistic director of Chautauqua Visual Arts of Chautauqua Institution. The…
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An idea made manifest: the creation and mission of A Sanctified Art
I’m not exactly sure how or when the vision took hold of me, but when it did, it was undeniable, voracious. I could not let it go. Or maybe it refused to let me go. It was a vision cast from longing, from years of vocational confusion, from decades of sitting quietly in stifled sanctuaries…
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Subversive ambiguities in Ryan Hawk’s works at Dallas sculpture park
Can a clown be a work of art? Or a pile of bricks? Well, yes, if the artist is Houston-based Ryan Hawk, whose work is on display at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. Stretched out on the leaf-strewn ground, Outside Agitator (All Artists Are Bastards) is a brightly attired but sad-faced clown, with frizzy, rainbow-streaked hair.…
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The Daily Heller: Wilde’s Memory Palace Exhibited
Ten thousand design and advertising students have passed through Richard Wilde’s department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, which has to be a record if there ever was one. The feat was commemorated in 2009 with a book and exhibition rightly titled The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture,…