Category: Visual Arts

  • Emory Visual Arts Gallery – Winter Exhibit (t… | 05/13/2025 11:00 AM

    Emory Visual Arts Gallery – Winter Exhibit (t… | 05/13/2025 11:00 AM

    Through Fri., Apr. 25 CRITIC’S PICK: Jayne County’s Electric Dreams, Emory Visual Arts Gallery – Born in Dallas, Georgia, Jayne County first gained notoriety as a member the Theatre of the Ridiculous, an absurdist fringe outfit in New York in the late 1960s. She participated in the Stonewall Riots and joined Andy Warhol’s Factory where…

  • Spruill Gallery Spring Exhibition (tuesdays) | 05/13/2025 12:00 PM

    Spruill Gallery Spring Exhibition  (tuesdays) | 05/13/2025 12:00 PM

    From the venue: Spruill Gallery welcomes back Sarah Emerson, whose work is a notable part of the gallery’s contribution to public art. Returns on exhibition from April 25 to June 20, 2025, features recent works by the artist. Quintessential of Emerson’s works, the exhibition presents viewers with highly stylized mixed-media drawings and paintings featuring versions of nature…

  • Spruill Gallery Spring Exhibition (tuesdays) | 05/13/2025 12:00 PM

    Spruill Gallery Spring Exhibition  (tuesdays) | 05/13/2025 12:00 PM

    From the venue: Spruill Gallery welcomes back Sarah Emerson, whose work is a notable part of the gallery’s contribution to public art. Returns on exhibition from April 25 to June 20, 2025, features recent works by the artist. Quintessential of Emerson’s works, the exhibition presents viewers with highly stylized mixed-media drawings and paintings featuring versions of nature…

  • Sandler Hudson Gallery Spring Exhibitions (tu… | 05/13/2025 12:00 PM

    Courtesy Ignacio Michaud and Sandler Hudson Gallery Ignacio Michaud – Military, 2023 From the venue: Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition entitled Fields, featuring the works of Ignacio Michaud. Ignacio Michaud (b. 1979, Santiago, Chile) is a painter whose work is informed by various methods of drawing. In Fields, Michaud’s process unfolds…

  • Friends For Life Pet of the Week: Snowball

    The Leader is excited to partner with local no-kill shelter Friends For Life to feature an adoptable pet every week. To view all adoptable animals, fill out an adoption application, show your support through donations or volunteering, or take a pet compatibility quiz to zero in on your very own best friend for life, please…

  • Libraries host free summer art series for teens

    Libraries host free summer art series for teens

    In conjunction with the 2025 Summer Reading Challenge, Fort Bend County Libraries will present a series of free, hands-on teen art workshops exploring a variety of artistic styles and art movements from different time periods. Presented by volunteers with Unite & Inspire, the series — “Color Our World: Journey Through Global Art Forms” – will…

  • Libraries host free summer art series for teens

    Libraries host free summer art series for teens

    In conjunction with the 2025 Summer Reading Challenge, Fort Bend County Libraries will present a series of free, hands-on teen art workshops exploring a variety of artistic styles and art movements from different time periods. Presented by volunteers with Unite & Inspire, the series — “Color Our World: Journey Through Global Art Forms” – will…

  • Art Restart Podcast: Coka Treviño

    Art Restart Podcast: Coka Treviño

    For more than 20 years, Big Medium was one of the most influential visual-arts organizations in the Austin, TX. At the heart of its work for many years was curator and artistic director Coka Treviño, whose passion for equity and for platforming emerging artists helped shape the organization’s inclusive mission. In this episode of the…

  • Folk is having a revival—in the art world too

    Folk is having a revival—in the art world too

    Folk is making a comeback. In music, film, dance—and now, even the visual arts. Stroud, where a handful of grassroots art galleries have opened in recent years, is one of the British epicentres of this growing phenomenon. Over May Day weekend—traditionally considered the beginning of summer—the small town in Gloucestershire hosted the second instalment of…

  • TheArtBlog, Philadelphia’s go-to site for local arts, to shut down after 22 years

    TheArtBlog, Philadelphia’s go-to site for local arts, to shut down after 22 years

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! After 22 years of covering every nook and cranny of Philadelphia’s gallery scene, TheArtBlog.org is closing down. Co-founder and Executive Director Roberta Fallon said the blog, one of the most reliable and regular…