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15 students get art scholarships from parade group
Fifteen children are warming up their voices, tuning their strings, sliding on their pointe shoes and sharpening their pencils as they get ready to attend summer arts camps courtesy of the sNoBalls, a Tangipahoa Parish-based parading group dedicated to supporting children in the arts. From the orchestra pit to the stage, the sNoBalls’ 2025 scholarship…
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Heartful Creations: OMFA kicks off ‘Folk Art Frenzy’ art camp
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Children, creativity and imagination filled the main entrance area of the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art on Monday as Kentucky’s second-largest art museum kicked off its “Folk Art Frenzy” free summer art camp. The weeklong camp — geared toward…
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UC San Diego Alumna Carrie Mae Weems Shares Hard Truths
Like many of her following works, the project challenged and helped reshape dominant political and cultural narratives. “Along with the social ideas we were studying at UC San Diego, it was a culmination of reading, thinking and looking at what it meant to be Black in America, understanding I didn’t need to look far afield,…
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Faculty appointments: Sara Greenberger Rafferty, A.K. Burns, Steve Locke – e-flux Education
Faculty appointments: Sara Greenberger Rafferty, A.K. Burns, Steve Locke Hunter College Art & Art History Department Main Campus 695 Park Avenue 11th Floor North Building New York, NY 10065USA huntercollegeart.org Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), has named artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty as the inaugural Ruth Stanton Chair of the Department of Art…
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Coloring Downtown: Mosaic Street Festival Takes Over Riverhead
Artists have once again proven that they are the boss in downtown Riverhead, where they took over East Main Street, chalk in hand, on Sunday for East End Arts’ 29th Annual Mosaic Street Festival. Usually held Memorial Day Weekend, this year’s festival was held a week later, on Sunday June 1, and after Saturday’s rain…
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Artwork of ceramicist to be shown
Mary Lou Higgins: Sibylline Faces” will be on view from June 7 through Nov. 15 in the Schaefer Gallery of the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum (BRAHM). This exhibition presents a selection of ceramic works and drawings by Mary Lou Higgins (1926–2012), an artist active in North Carolina throughout her career. Best known for…
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Wilkes Art Gallery issues call for artists
The Wilkes Art Gallery is calling for artists to participate in “Minute: A Miniature Art Exhibition” that will feature in the Hayes Hall Gallery alongside the 46th annual Northwest Artists’ Exhibition in the Main Gallery. Sign Up For Newsletters
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‘Shimon Okshteyn: The Artist Estate Part 2’ on View in Southampton
On Saturday, June 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. Black & White Gallery/Project Space in Southampton will open “Shimon Okshteyn: The Artist Estate/Part 2.” The new exhibition remains on view through July 26, and features 23 works from 1984 to 2000 that showcase sculpture, collage, print, installation and painting produced by Shimon Okshteyn during a…
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“Local Artists Go Miniature,” National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
Opening Reception of Local Artists Go Miniature at The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures Americans like things big: cars, houses, walk-in-closets, dinner plates and movie stars. Art collectors also favor big canvases, sculptures and photography. Historically and psychologically, these preferences can be traced back centuries to the first time Europeans experienced the vastness of…
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The Art of the Steal
Breaking into comics can be full of challenges, roadblocks, and no guarantee of success—much like a heist story. In his new graphic novel “Bridge Planet Nine,” Richmond writer and artist Jared Throne tells the story of four desperate thieves in a dystopian future who touch down on an abandoned colony planet to steal from an…