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Delaware Division of the Arts Announce 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship Awardees
Twenty-one Delaware Artists Receive Funding In Recognition of Artist Excellence Statewide, Del. (January 28, 2025) – The Delaware Division of the Arts is proud to recognize 21 exceptional Delaware artists as the 2025 Individual Artist Fellows, awarding a total of $158,000 to support their creative pursuits. This year’s application cycle saw an unprecedented 191 applications…
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Aptech unveils a gen AI-powered evaluation tool Creval designed for visual arts
MUMBAI: Aptech which works in the non-formal vocational training business in the country has recently introduced Creval an AI-powered creative evaluation tool that combines generative AI with human expertise to evaluate visual creatives in real-time. Creval is designed to protect a creative professional’s artwork using Amazon Bedrock capabilities of model choice, customisation, security, privacy, and…
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‘His paintings are magical’: Barry Humphries’s art to feature alongside Dame Edna memorabilia at Christie’s auction
Barry Humphries has had the last laugh—naturally. The fine art fanciers who will be attending the posthumous auction of the entertainer’s collection, in hopes of a distinguished watercolour or rare manuscript, will come face to bespectacled face with his most outrageous creation. Dame Edna Everage, the comic character by which Humphries is best known, won’t…
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American 1 Credit Union Announces $10K Donation to Adrian Center for the Arts
Adrian, MI – American 1 Credit Union has announced its donation of $10,000 to Adrian Center for the Arts. Founded in 2015, the Adrian Center for the Arts’ mission is to allow the visual arts to flourish and celebrate regionally through passionate artists, arts educations, and creative enrichment for people of all ages and abilities.…
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Aptech unveils Creval – a first-of-its-kind, generative AI-powered evaluation tool designed for visual arts
Aptech Limited, a pioneer in the non-formal vocational training business in the country has recently introduced “Creval” – a first-of-its-kind, AI-powered creative evaluation tool that combines generative AI with human expertise to evaluate visual creatives in real-time. Creval is designed to protect a creative professional’s artwork using Amazon Bedrock capabilities of model choice, customisation, security,…
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Brain trauma drove Gloucester’s Jon Sarkin to become an artist. He died an outsider art legend.
GLOUCESTER – “Fish City Studios” reads the blocky, black-stenciled text in the narrow storefront window on Gloucesters Main Street, a visual anchor awash in vibrant stains of paint and ink. For the better part of a decade, the artist Jon Sarkin worked here. Up the half-dozen stairs and into the slender space, you’d find him…
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Sarasota Art Museum paintings exhibit puts the focus on the viewers
Life can get pretty meta these days. No, we’re not talking about the parent company of Facebook, but the concept of a thing within the thing. Case in point: Imagine sitting on a bench with artist Joe Fig in the Sarasota Art Museum, where his one-man show “Joe Fig: Contemplating Vermeer” is on display. Fig…
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith dies at 85.
Influential Indigenous painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith passed away on January 24th at 85, following her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Her death was confirmed by Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, where she was represented. Smith, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, leveraged her art to amplify the voices of Indigenous Americans, drawing…
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First Weekend Art in Toledo
As the days begin to lengthen and the promise of spring is right around the corner, the town of Toledo begins to thaw into the new season. With the budding iconic cherry trees that line the streets, the striking views of the riverfront community are inspirational. Every month, the town of Toledo takes a weekend…
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OCTC faculty member featured in Kentucky-wide art exhibit
Abbi Ruppert, a member of Owensboro Community and Technical College’s art faculty and visual art program coordinator, is being featured in a statewide juried exhibition over the next few weeks. This exhibit, “In CommonWealth: Kentucky Art, Craft, & Design,” will be at Eastern Kentucky University’s Giles Gallery in Richmond througy February 20. It showcases 57…