Category: Visual Arts

  • Annual student art exhibit April 25

    ||| FROM D.N. KINSEY for ART FOR ORCAS KIDS ||| To celebrate art and creativity, this year’s Annual Student Art Exhibit will be on display at the Orcas Center from April 25 – May 19, 2025. This exhibit showcases artwork from A*OK classes (Kindergarten through 8th grade) and features select pieces from Orcas Island High…

  • “The Storm Still Rages” launches in Caracas, showcasing global artistic solidarity

    “The Storm Still Rages” launches in Caracas, showcasing global artistic solidarity

    CARACAS- The international poster and illustration exhibition titled “The Storm Still Rages” has arrived in the city of Caracas, Venezuela.  This exhibition is organized by the Office of the Visual Arts Center of Iran’s Art Bureau, in collaboration with the Cultural Attaché of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Caracas, under the curation of Mohammad…

  • Artesian Arts Festival set for next weekend

    Artesian Arts Festival set for next weekend

    A daylong celebration of First American art and culture, the 12th annual Artesian Arts Festival, will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, April 5, at the Artesian Plaza in Sulphur. More than 140 First American artists from across the United States are expected to participate, displaying a vast array of original, diverse…

  • MECCA used art supply store in Eugene encourages creativity through recycling

    MECCA used art supply store in Eugene encourages creativity through recycling

    MECCA’s 7,000-square-foot building at 555 High Street in downtown Eugene houses a community area, a private studio, a volunteer space, an art gallery, and a warehouse. Photo by: Ester Barkai As anyone who makes art knows, “art supplies are expensive,” said Lexi Cuddeback, store manager at MECCA — Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts —…

  • The seriously whimsical art of writer Kurt Vonnegut on view at Drexel University

    The seriously whimsical art of writer Kurt Vonnegut on view at Drexel University

    The novelist who died in 2007 wrote novels for more than 50 years, while also drawing on the side. Drexel opened an exhibition of two dozen. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., whose best selling…

  • Print workshop launches exhibition of work by Pop Art pioneer

    Print workshop launches exhibition of work by Pop Art pioneer

    A print workshop in Co Down has launched a new exhibition featuring work from renowned visual artist Joe Tilson. The Seacourt Print Workshop in Bangor is showcasing prints from the artist who is strongly associated with the 1960s British Pop Art movement. The exhibition also includes examples of his later pieces, featuring ziggurats and the…

  • Art museum names Raeghan Buchanan as 2025 Aminah Robinson Writing Resident

    Art museum names Raeghan Buchanan as 2025 Aminah Robinson Writing Resident

    Show Caption Hide Caption Miles Balfour explains his inspiration for his community mural Columbus artist Miles Balfour created a community mural on West Broad Street in the Hilltop neighborhood. As the 2025 Aminah Robinson Writing Resident, Raeghan Buchanan will live and work in the late artist’s home for three months. Buchanan is working on an…

  • East End Arts Honors Scholar of Asian Art

    East End Arts Honors Scholar of Asian Art

    East End Arts in Riverhead will present Finding Qi, a gallery exhibition of artwork by internationally acclaimed Chinese scholar and North Fork resident Robert Oxnam April 5 through May 10 at its two downtown Riverhead galleries at 133 East Main Street and 11 West Main Street. Oxnam died at his Greenport home in April, 2024,…

  • Mural story — and Westerly residents — light up Instagram

    Mural story — and Westerly residents — light up Instagram

    WESTERLY — A 12-foot-by-6-foot painting of a granite-themed, depression-era mural — originally intended for the walls of the Westerly Post Office on High Street —  continues to draw attention and build community, decades after Westerly residents staged the revolt that brought it to light.

  • New Bella Vista Arts Council board member focused on public art and engaging children

    New Bella Vista Arts Council board member focused on public art and engaging children

    BELLA VISTA — The new board member for the Bella Vista Arts Council brings years of experience working in the…