Category: Visual Arts

  • Art Opening at Orcas Center: Ponch Immel

    ||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center’s Visual Arts Committee (VAC) is pleased to present the next Art Opening, Friday, October 25 from 5:30pm – 7pm with featured artist, Ponch Immel in the lobby, and a community show of Ceramics and Watercolors in Madrona Room. While drawing and sculpting sand at the…

  • Turn over a new leaf at MI’s Rotary Park | Hamer

    Turn over a new leaf at MI’s Rotary Park | Hamer

    Do you love autumn? Like to see leaves turning yellow, red and orange? Enjoy raking leaves with your kids? Maybe walking through the piles? Well, do we have a fun project for you. On Sunday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to noon at Rotary Park on Mercer Island (corner of 44th and 88th, just north…

  • Acclaimed artist André M. Zachery of Renegade Performance Group at York’s Arts Gallery

    Acclaimed artist André M. Zachery of Renegade Performance Group at York’s Arts Gallery

    The exhibition will run from October 22 to November 22nd, 2024 Nehemoyia Young, Candace Thompson-Zachery and André M Zachery (Renegade Performance Group) on location at the Weeksville Heritage Grounds in Brooklyn, NY for the “Untamed Space” series, 2016. Photo credit: Richard Louissaint. CUNY’s York College Arts Gallery is proud to present Echo Making, an innovative multimedia installation by…

  • San Francisco Exhibition Highlights Mary Cassatt’s Bold Work

    A passing glance at a Mary Cassatt piece may tempt you to dismiss her artwork as overly sentimental or her subject matter as overdone.  But with her careful depictions of domestic scenes and women’s work, the 19th-century Impressionist artist became a trailblazer in many aspects of modern art — a fact driven home by a…

  • President Biden Will Award 20 National Medals of the Arts, Recipients Include Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Bradford, and Spike Lee

    President Biden Will Award 20 National Medals of the Arts, Recipients Include Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Bradford, and Spike Lee

    From left, Mark Bradford. | Photo Courtesy of Mark Bradford; Carrie Mae Weems. | Photo © Rolex, Audoin Desforges. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin The President will also award National Humanities Medals today PRESIDENT BIDEN is celebrating excellence in the arts and humanities.…

  • Mark Bradford

    Mark Bradford

    Bio Mark Bradford is a contemporary artist known for his large-scale, abstract paintings created out of paper. Characterized by its layered formal, material, and conceptual complexity, his work explores social and political structures that objectify marginalized communities and the bodies of vulnerable populations. His practice includes painting, sculpture, video, photography, printmaking, and other media. Using…

  • Cape Cod Potters Will Hold Seconds Sale

    Cape Cod Potters Will Hold Seconds Sale

    The public is invited to attend the Cape Cod Potters Pottery Seconds Sale on Saturday, November 2, at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. The sale offers a chance to purchase slightly imperfect works that have been donated by ceramic artists Capewide. Proceeds from the sale will be divided two ways, with 50 percent going…

  • New exhibit featuring Cherokee artist Jeff Edwards unveiled at Cherokee Cultural Pathway

    New exhibit featuring Cherokee artist Jeff Edwards unveiled at Cherokee Cultural Pathway

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } The art of Cherokee Nation citizen and artist Jeff Edwards is the newest exhibit on display at the Cherokee Cultural Pathway. “Jeff Edwards: The Future Will Be Cherokee” is now open to the public and runs through April 12,…

  • Everyday People: ‘The Owl Lady’ is wise about art

    LONG BEACH, Wash. — Wearing giant glasses and graduating as valedictorian, it was inevitable that Taryn Wise would be teased about being like an owl. “People made fun of me. But my family liked owls,” she said, recalling her childhood years in Peoria, Illinois. Gifts inevitably had owl themes. “We always had collections of owls,…

  • Natchez’s Burns will be featured artist at St. Francisville festival – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

    Natchez’s Burns will be featured artist at St. Francisville festival – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

    Natchez’s Burns will be featured artist at St. Francisville festival Published 11:14 am Monday, October 21, 2024 Natchez artist Conner Burns will be the featured artist at Yellow Leaf Arts Festival this weekend in St. Francisville, La. (Submitted photo) ST. FRANCISVILLE, La.  – Conner Burns will be the featured artist at Yellow Leaf Arts Festival…