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Atlantic County Teen Arts Festival set for May 7
The creative talents of Atlantic County students will be on display Wednesday at the Atlantic County Teen Arts Festival. The festival held in Downtown Hammonton is a collaboration of the Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs with Stockton University the Noyes Museum, MainStreet Hammonton and others. It will run from 9 a.m. to…
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Brush to canvas: News from the art world
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance is top of mind this week, as CEO Terry Marks bids the arts support organization farewell after four years on the job. Terry Marks. Photo (2021) by John Collins In a mid-April announcement, Marks said she would remain at the nonprofit through May 9. “It has been an honor to…
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The Visual World of Flannery O’Connor Emerges From Obscurity
“For the writer of fiction,” Flannery O’Connor once reflected, “everything has its testing point in the eye.” Writing, to her, didn’t just call on emotion and thought; it required “sense-impression” on the part of the author—on what and how she sees. It begins with the eye, “an organ,” she said, “that eventually involves the whole…
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Visually Literate opens in the Appleton Gallery
Local artistic students are, once again, getting the opportunity to showcase what they’ve learned in class this year during the highly anticipated annual Visually Literate High School Art Exhibition, which is currently on display in the Appleton Gallery at Shawnee State University through May 13. “Art exhibitions are tools for artists and allow them to…
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Introducing the Spring/Summer 2025 ‘Visual Arts Journal’ | School of Visual Arts
The spring/summer 2025 issue of the Visual Arts Journal, the biannual magazine of the School of Visual Arts, has arrived on campus—where it is available for free at various locations—and is en route to the mailboxes of SVA graduates, faculty, and friends of the College all over the U.S. The Journal is also offered to all in digital…
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Home is where the art is: Go inside North Texans’ homes to see the art they treasure
Art isn’t just in museums, galleries or concert halls. Art is all around us – especially in our homes. Whether you’re in your bedroom, cooking in your kitchen or working in the garage, the items that fill our homes tell stories about who we are and what we care about. That’s why Arts Access, a…
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Waseca Art Center welcomes two very different artists
With the calendar turning to May, the Waseca Art Center welcomed two new Minnesota artists to be featured in its Beckmann and Harguth Galleries, offering two very different styles for local art connoisseurs to enjoy during the late spring and early summer. Artist Mary Catherine Solberg mixes a wide variety of influences in her artwork,…
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CFA School of Visual Arts Annual Undergrad Thesis Exhibitions Now on View
Works by 66 graduating seniors in painting, sculpture, graphic design, and BA in art cohort showcase range of themes and materials Inside a brightly lit room in the College of Fine Arts last month, a group of senior painting majors stood together, surrounded by colorful canvases, paint-stained tables, and art supplies, an air of anticipation…
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ArtWorking has a mission for artists with disabilities
At a workbench dusted with fine clay powder, dotted with dry glaze splotches, and scattered with potter’s tools, artist Richard Berkholtz is in motion. He carefully feels for his paintbrush with his right hand as he locates a pot of glaze with his left. Expertly, he relocates his recently spun clay bowl and begins to…
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Sacramento offers more than $2 million in financial support for local artists
SACRAMENTO — Artist Katy Karns has a passion for photography and owns a studio in Old Sacramento. She creates artistic composites and takes personalized portraits, but it’s still not enough to earn a full-time income. “It’s incredibly hard to be able to keep pursuing things that you want to be pursuing in art,” she said.…