Category: Visual Arts

  • Firehouse Art Center hosts chili competition

    Firehouse Art Center hosts chili competition

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Norman Firehouse Art Center will host The Firehouse Chili Bowl, a fundraiser and contest among the faculty, staff and board of the Firehouse Art Center. Community support of this event enables the center to continue to be a leader in the visual…

  • Randolph High’s Torster rediscovering childhood through ceramic art

    Randolph High’s Torster rediscovering childhood through ceramic art

    RANDOLPH TWP. – Maybe there is such a thing as a time machine. Randolph High School Senior Blake Torster’s selective work project for his portfolio in the AP Studio Art: 3D Designs course, is an art piece featuring small, medium, and large hands, made from clay, as an artistic metaphor for the passage of time.…

  • William Gropper at the Phillips Collection

    William Gropper at the Phillips Collection

    Share via: Only two visual artists were blacklisted for their alleged Communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the 1950s: Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) and William Gropper (1897-1977). Subpoenaed by Republican Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in 1953, Kent — who had faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1939, and whose passport…

  • Top Five: December 5, 2024

    Top Five: December 5, 2024
  • Art Off the Wall returns to Carnegie Art Center today

    Art Off the Wall returns to Carnegie Art Center today

    The 9th annual Art Off the Wall exhibition and fundraiser to benefit the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. It’s a unique opportunity to purchase 5-by-7-inch original works of art for only $25. Artwork is donated by local award-winning and emerging artists with a variety of…

  • Mural class goes 3D in breezeway

    Mural class goes 3D in breezeway

    Dec. 5, 2024 – DENTON – Visual Arts professor Giovanni Valderas has found another dull, overlooked spot on campus to invigorate. The location for this year’s mural class is one the most high-traffic areas at TWU, located at the north-south center of campus. Of course, nobody travels to this site, they just pass through it.…

  • Le Sueur Arts cultivating community creatives

    (Left to right) Deb Bergerson, Craig Kotasek and Alison Zwart of Le Sueur Arts partake in a community drawing group at Word of Life Church. (Carson Hughes/southernminn.com) {p dir=”ltr”}Picture this: a home for the arts in the heart of Le Sueur with a rotating collection, displays dedicated to the Le Sueur area’s homegrown artists, and…

  • San Antonio’s Sala Diaz will present provocative performances, short films this Saturday

    San Antonio’s Sala Diaz will present provocative performances, short films this Saturday

    <a href="https://media1.sacurrent.com/sacurrent/imager/u/original/36227324/courtesy_image_megan_solis_copy.webp" rel="contentImg_gal-36227297" title="Multidisciplinary artist Megan Solis is among those screening short films at Saturday's event. – Courtesy Image / Megan Solis" data-caption="Multidisciplinary artist Megan Solis is among those screening short films at Saturday’s event.   Courtesy Image / Megan Solis” class=”uk-display-block uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle”> click to enlarge Courtesy Image / Megan Solis Multidisciplinary artist Megan Solis…

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 Was Short on Gimmicks — and That’s a Good Thing

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  • Venice Art Biennale Appoints Koyo Kouoh as Director of the 61st International Art Exhibition

    Venice Art Biennale Appoints Koyo Kouoh as Director of the 61st International Art Exhibition

    © Mirjam Kluka ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1024394/venice-art-biennale-appoints-koyo-kouoh-as-director-of-the-61st-international-art-exhibition Clipboard“COPY”Copy The Board of La Biennale di Venezia has just announced the appointment of Koyo Kouoh as the Director of the Visual Arts Department. Kouoh will lead the curation of the 61st International Art Exhibition, scheduled for 2026. This announcement follows a recommendation by…