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Denton Maker Center builds space to create art and community
Denton is full of creative people, but not everyone has the resources for a home studio. The Denton Maker Center provides tools, space and a community of creative peers. Since opening in October, the nonprofit has provided a space for local creatives to work and connect. #placement_594923_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;} The fiber arts room at Denton Maker Center…
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Highlights from MIT’s first-ever Artfinity festival
When people think of MIT, they may first think of code, circuits, and cutting-edge science. But the school has a rich history of interweaving art, science, and technology in unexpected and innovative ways — and that’s never been more clear than with the Institute’s latest festival, Artfinity: A Celebration of Creativity and Community at MIT. After…
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Artists Opportunities via Creative Capital for June, 2025
Explore Opportunities with Creative Capital. Designed to support BIPOC artists and performing arts organizations from underserved and under-resourced communities, this program offers affordable rehearsal space in The Clemente’s 3rd-floor studio, Room 309, at a discounted rate of $15/hour for artists and organizations in New York City. Deadline: Rolling This residency focuses on helping artists grow…
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Downtown Corry prepares for second First Friday Art Walk this Friday
The second Downtown Corry Business Association (DCBA) First Friday event of 2025 is set to transform the downtown area this Friday with its Art Walk, bringing together local artists, entertainers and community members for an evening of creativity and celebration. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m. throughout the downtown Corry business district. The…
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Young artists celebrated for their talents, determination
Four outstanding high school seniors received the 2025 Young Artist Awards at a reception at Arts and Culture El Dorado’s Switchboard Gallery at 525 Main Street in Placerville. The event held earlier this spring also honored the memory of four bright lights in the El Dorado County community who greatly supported the arts. Their lives…
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Arts in the Park – Republic-Times
Following a successful inaugural year, Arts in the Park is returning to Columbia this Sunday, allowing the community to come together and get a good taste of the artistic talent Monroe County has to offer. Arts in the Park is one of several events and programs organized by the Monroe County Arts Alliance to allow…
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Arts Festival Showcases Cultural And Creative Diversity
Experience the art, music, and culture that make Queens truly unique. Presenting Lead Sponsor Resorts World NYC, Major Sponsors Northwell Health/LIJ Forest Hills, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Queens Rising, the borough’s dynamic celebration of cultural and creative diversity, returns this June for its fourth annual edition, showcasing the talents and…
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Shanice Figeroux
Shanice Figeroux is a NYC-born visual and performing artist dedicated to fostering mental wellness and community connection through art. Rooted in Jamaica, Queens, her practice spans diverse collaborations with nonprofits, research institutions, City Councils, corporations, businesses, schools, and faith-based organizations, all focused on creating impactful programming for women, children, and communities of color. Building on…
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The complicated genesis of ‘homosexual’
Is heterosexuality natural? In his 1995 book The Invention of Heterosexuality, sexuality scholar Jonathan Ned Katz established the idea of “heterosexual” as a historically recent concept. First entered into the lexicon in the late 19th century, “heterosexual” served a very specific social and political function: “Heterosexuality is not identical to the reproductive intercourse of the…
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‘Catalyst’ highlights the ingenuity of immigrant artists
For decades, self-taught immigrant artists in Chicago have collected, sculpted, woven, painted, built, and sustained a creative practice in their everyday lives. “Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of these works made since the 1940s. Many of the working-class artists on view used tools from their…