Category: Visual Arts

  • Check out new art classes for the new year at UAB’s ArtPlay

    Check out new art classes for the new year at UAB’s ArtPlay

    Registration is now open for new spring ArtPlay classes and workshops, including creative movement, writing, storytelling, visual arts, ballet, keyboard basics and much more. Registration is now open for new spring ArtPlay classes and workshops, including creative movement, writing, storytelling, visual arts, ballet, keyboard basics and much more.Registration is open now for new art classes…

  • Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

    Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

    The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for yearlong residencies in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York: home to art galleries, independent restaurants and shops, and creative professionals. Studios are near public parks, the city waterfront, and many forms of transit. Accessible 24/7, artist studios include freight and passenger…

  • Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

    Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

    The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for yearlong residencies in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York: home to art galleries, independent restaurants and shops, and creative professionals. Studios are near public parks, the city waterfront, and many forms of transit. Accessible 24/7, artist studios include freight and passenger…

  • Are You Ready to Head Into The Beyond?

    Are You Ready to Head Into The Beyond?

    INTEREST & INTRIGUE. Specializing in a certain kind of visual arts, books, and flicks style, The Beyond is your gateway to the odd. A new shop has quietly popped up over on Dewey Street in downtown Eau Claire. Now ready for your arrival, The Beyond offers a treasure trove for creatives, collectors, and the curious…

  • Are You Ready to Head Into The Beyond?

    Are You Ready to Head Into The Beyond?

    INTEREST & INTRIGUE. Specializing in a certain kind of visual arts, books, and flicks style, The Beyond is your gateway to the odd. A new shop has quietly popped up over on Dewey Street in downtown Eau Claire. Now ready for your arrival, The Beyond offers a treasure trove for creatives, collectors, and the curious…

  • The 10 best things about visual arts in 2024

    The 10 best things about visual arts in 2024

    In a disturbing year internationally, Canadian artists and art galleries seemed to rise above the fray with an engaging slate of programming that points to a dynamic post-pandemic recovery. Work by female artists and the importance of textiles as a medium were two recurring themes. Best film: Floating Sea Palace by Lap-See Lam at the…

  • The 10 best things about visual arts in 2024

    The 10 best things about visual arts in 2024

    In a disturbing year internationally, Canadian artists and art galleries seemed to rise above the fray with an engaging slate of programming that points to a dynamic post-pandemic recovery. Work by female artists and the importance of textiles as a medium were two recurring themes. Best film: Floating Sea Palace by Lap-See Lam at the…

  • New South Burlington city curator ‘exhibits’ belief in art, community

    Artist Sarah Jayne Kennelly creates spaces for others in the Greater Burlington area to find themselves by making art accessible. Photo by Abigail Johnston. Sarah Jayne Kennelly of Burlington dreamed of being a scientist as a young girl, fascinated by the examination of life and the desire to explore. Now an adult, she keeps that…

  • New South Burlington city curator ‘exhibits’ belief in art, community

    Artist Sarah Jayne Kennelly creates spaces for others in the Greater Burlington area to find themselves by making art accessible. Photo by Abigail Johnston. Sarah Jayne Kennelly of Burlington dreamed of being a scientist as a young girl, fascinated by the examination of life and the desire to explore. Now an adult, she keeps that…

  • Best Art of 2024

    Best Art of 2024

    This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.” Art-wise, 2024 had an in-between-things vibe. It was a year of big-deal biennials, but the consensus was that none delivered much firepower. There was a lot…