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Winners, finalists of Memphis airport’s annual high school arts competition announced
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – High school students across the Mid-South had a simple yet complicated assignment: to capture Memphis in its truest form. Their work was then entered into the Memphis airport’s 18th annual High School Visual Arts & Photography Competition. And on Tuesday, the winners and finalists were announced. In all, 49 finalists were selected…
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Imperial County Arts Festival Celebrates Students’ Artistic Talents
EL CENTRO — A total of 132 student-submitted visual art pieces were displayed at the Old Eucalyptus Schoolhouse for a community walkthrough as part of the third annual Arts Festival. Hosted by the Imperial County Office of Education on Thursday, May 15, the exhibit featured sculptures, digital art, photography, drawings and paintings celebrating a variety…
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Four young artists celebrated, four bright lights honored
Four outstanding high school seniors received the 2025 Young Artist Awards at a reception at Arts and Culture El Dorado’s Switchboard Gallery at 525 Main St. in Placerville. The event, held on Thursday, April 24, also honored the memory of four bright lights in the El Dorado County community who greatly supported the arts. Their…
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See a scratch blend into harmonious art
Master scratchboard artist Linda Heath Clark will demonstrate her unique full color scratchboard technique at Placerville Art Gallery during the Third Saturday Art Walk on May 17. To create her art, Heath Clark uses a unique full color variation on the subtractive black and white scratchboard techniques she learned working as a scientific illustrator for…
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Crane students show off artistic skills
The Crane Pirates showed off their artistic skills as they participated in the 2025 GOC Art Show. The High School entered students’ art work in 12 out of 18 categories and placed in 11 of them. The Pirates earned five first place awards including: Nicole McDowell in Ceramics and Fibers, Kayla Kerr in Collage, Adaptive…
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Berks’ Best 2025 Visual Arts winner: Mackenzie Stoudt connects art with the everyday
Mackenzie Stoudt saves receipts. Not for a fundraising activity, but for her art. Mackenzie, 18, is the winner of 2025 Berks’ Best award in the visual arts category. One of her sculptures on display at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading depicts a cash register with a flowing ribbon of receipts encircling a…
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Wawasee Fine Arts Festival growing
SYRACUSE — Chautauqua-Wawasee is hosting the 11th annual Wawasee Fine Arts Festival at Oakwood Resort on May 24 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. A diverse range of fine art will feature pottery, watercolor, oil painting, jewelry, and specialty art made from natural materials such as wood, glass, or metal to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces. This year,…
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The Artist’s World: Solitude and Solidarity
Anastacia Reneé, Faith Scott and Natasha Ria El-Scari in 2019 holding a picture of ourselves from 2009 as we celebrated the premiere of a play Anastacia wrote while we were in our WWW writers collective (photo courtesy of Natasha Ria El-Scari) My grandmother was an avid seamstress and shared with her grandchildren her experiences with…
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Dubai gallery brings African art to the Gulf
Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, the art district home to over 70 contemporary art galleries, in April saw the opening of its first dedicated African space. The Efie Gallery’s new Africa-focused space made its debut with an exhibition featuring Afro-Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons and her work exploring the theme of land and belonging. The Efie…
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Launching the careers of emerging artists for nearly 40 years
Paddy Mittag-McNaught ’20 came to St. Olaf College with the goal of preparing himself for a career in architecture. In addition to completing a major in studio art, he designed an individual major in architecture and sustainable studies. He worked as a teaching assistant in the Art Department, was a monitor in the wood shop,…