Category: Visual Arts

  • Dates set for annual Delaware Arts Fest

    Dates set for annual Delaware Arts Fest

    Dates set for annual Delaware Arts Fest The 49th Delaware Arts Festival, located in downtown Delaware, will welcome all for the two-day family friendly event May 18-19, 2024. The Delaware Arts Festival is a nonprofit organization with two beneficiaries. To further their visual arts education, three Delaware County high school art students divide $20,000 in…

  • AT UNT, brutalist architecture remade with a soft touch

    AT UNT, brutalist architecture remade with a soft touch

    The staircase is among the most basic of architectural elements, yet one that lends itself to creative expression. Are the steps wide or narrow, steep or gentle, deep or shallow? What shape or material is chosen for the banister and rails? The options are infinite, though architects too often settle for the familiar. One firm…

  • November 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

    November 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

     Opportunities November 1, 2023 Colossal Mural by Adele Renault Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at [email protected]. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. $3,500 Artist Grants |…

  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith affirms Native American heritage at the Fort Worth Modern

    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith affirms Native American heritage at the Fort Worth Modern

    Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is what author and journalist Gail Sheehy called “a triumphant personality,” someone who has seen off circumstances that would have extinguished lesser lights. Born to a 14-year-old mother and a much older father in a Jesuit mission on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, she was destined to scoop up the learning of…

  • ArtDependence | Jonas Staal wins Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2023

    ArtDependence | Jonas Staal wins Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2023

    Staal won this year’s award for the video study Empire’s Island. The artist will receive a € 40,000 contribution and the opportunity to participate in a residency of his choice. The Prix de Rome is an incentive award for talented visual artists who convincingly offer new insights into the visual arts in the Kingdom of…

  • New Faculty Exhibition at the McCray Gallery Showcases the Talent of the Studio Arts Programs – Western New Mexico University

    “An inspirational showcase of our professors’ artwork” is how Expressive Arts major Charlee Alexander described the new exhibition of work by WNMU faculty on display at the McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art. “It is fantastic to see all of the faculty collaborating on something,” she said, “The community of the [Expressive] Arts Department is a…

  • Community Calendar – WFMZ-TV 69News

    Community Calendar – WFMZ-TV 69News

    Bulletin: …FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM EDT THURSDAY… * WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected. * WHERE…Portions of Delaware, the eastern shores of Maryland, New Jersey and southeast Pennsylvania. * WHEN…From midnight tonight to 10 AM EDT Thursday. * IMPACTS…Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other sensitive…

  • Darlington arts centre shuts as charity ‘ceases operation’

    Darlington arts centre shuts as charity ‘ceases operation’

    Google By Jim Scott BBC News An arts charity which helps children and vulnerable people is to fold over cost pressures and falling volunteer numbers. Bosses said financial challenges also meant they could not continue to run The Bridge Centre for Visual Arts, Darlington. The charity, along with their community hub on Hundens Lane, will…

  • Pa. officials promote new Arts Dashboard in McKeesport visit – The Mon Valley Independent

    Pa. officials promote new Arts Dashboard in McKeesport visit – The Mon Valley Independent

    The McKeesport Area High School choir performs “Let There Be Peace On Earth” under the direction of Beth Eger during a visit Tuesday by Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and Pennsylvania Education Secretary Khalid Mumin. To purchase this photo and more from our online photo gallery, go to our website at www.monvalleyindependent.com. FacebookTweet By LIAM BELAN…

  • Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios – e-flux Education

    Visual Arts & Sound Art MFA applications and open studios – e-flux Education

    Applications are now being accepted for the MFA Visual Arts and Sound Art Programs at Columbia University School of the Arts. The application deadline for Fall 2024 is January 17, 2024, 11:59pm ET. The Visual Arts + Sound Art Program offers students many opportunities to increase the depth and complexity of their studio practice and…