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Unravel, A CoSA Collaboration …
The Coronado School of the Arts invites you to experience Unravel—a powerful dance and visual arts collaboration exploring mental health. It has been such a special collaboration between CoSA Dance, CoSA Visual Arts and Safe Harbor Coronado. It’s one performance experience featuring 14 dances and an evolving work of art on multiple walls throughout the…
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Dry Canyon Arts Association donates $69,000 to Jumpstart Art in Redmond
The Dry Canyon Arts Association presented near $69,000 to Jumpstart Art Friday. It’s a program at Redmond elementary schools that provides funding for supplies and art education for younger students. “There has been little or no art education, visual art education in the elementary schools. And we wanted to change that. Our organization decided to…
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Using art to explore grief and gratitude
12:00: CITY Magazine’s 2024 Winter Guide 1:00: Using art to explore grief and gratitude It’s our monthly discussion of the latest edition of CITY Magazine. The December issue doubles as CITY’s 2024 Winter Guide, with stories to help you stay warm, fed, and entertained through the snowy season. From a family-owned Christmas tree farm and…
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The Sixteen Best Art Shows of 2024
From 2021 through 2023, I didn’t miss a show in Jersey City. I may not have written about everything, but if it was up in a local gallery or art space, I was there. That gave me a respectably wide field of reference and the authority to write an article like this. Even if you…
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‘So many sources of inspiration if we just look”:New art gallery celebrates inspiration
Showcasing a world of inspiration around us, Stevensville’s newest gallery and art studio Abstract Truth held an official gallery opening Nov. 29. Featured Local Savings
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Jacob Hashimoto’s Talley Dunn show needs to be seen to be appreciated
Jacob Hashimoto’s intricate wall- and ceiling-mounted constructions, a dozen of which are on view at Talley Dunn Gallery, cultivate an attractively paradoxical aesthetic. Though massive in scale — the wall pieces are several feet in height and breadth, and eight inches deep, and the ceiling piece is room-sized — they are delicate and featherweight, being…
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Earning half the minimum wage: new report reveals pressures on artists to sustain creative life
Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Bohème and all that) or jammy millionaires producing works valued at eye-watering sums (hello Damien Hirst). But the reality of life in the visual arts is more prosaic and a great deal more worrying, as the publication of Glasgow University’s report into the…
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A Changing World: “Altered Landscapes” At City Gallery
Cosmic Pond. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Laura Durnell: CPS is gutting my daughter’s arts program. This isn’t what we signed up for.
Chicago Public Schools students and their parents will experience heightened stress next year if President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan succeeds with his mass deportation plan in Chicago once Trump takes office. For Senn Arts students and parents in particular, this anxiety would be vinegar poured on top of the gaping gash in the…
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‘Friendly Universe’ Exhibit Showcases Work by CATA Artists
LEE, Mass. —Community Access to the Arts (CATA) and Good Purpose Gallery are presenting “Friendly Universe,” an exhibit featuring paintings by artists with disabilities. The exhibit is open through Jan. 13, 2025, at Good Purpose Gallery, located at 40 Main Street in Lee. Gallery hours are 8:00 AM–3:00 PM daily, except Tuesdays. The…