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Crane-inspired creative arts scholarship contest now accepting submissions
The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition, Inc. (CCC) has launched a Crane-Inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest. CCC is inviting all high school seniors in Routt and Moffat counties to submit an original piece of written or visual art inspired by the Rocky Mountain population of Greater Sandhill Cranes to the CCCC Crane-Inspired Creative Arts Scholarship Contest. The 2024 contest offers two categories. The first category focuses on…
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A New Exhibition From Collector Komal Shah Gives Female Artists the Attention They Deserve
During the 1940s and ’50s, influential critic Clement Greenberg helped catapult Jackson Pollock to art-world stardom with reverential reviews of the abstract expressionist’s innovative, action-based paintings. It wasn’t until 1961 that Greenberg revised his seminal 1955 essay “‘American-Type’ Painting,” to mention that in 1944, he and Pollock had, in fact, visited a gallery where they…
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New Depth-Filled Wall Sculptures by Joshua Abarbanel
Layer upon layer of stained and unstained woods come together to create artist Joshua Abarbanel’s depth-ridden artworks. In the name of examining creation and impermanence, Abarbanel uses forms and natural patterns evocative of biological, botanical, geological, and even mechanical structures. Further inspiration is derived from fractals, accretive formations (the accumulation of particles into a massive…
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Kiln-fired ceramics, street inflatables in December’s Astoria Art Walk
Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk, a celebration of visual art, music and writing, will begin at noon and continue through 8 p.m. Saturday. New exhibits open with refreshments, drinks and treats at this monthly downtown event. Angi D Wildt Gallery, 106 10th St. In three galleries on the 10th Street block between Astor Street and…
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Frist Art Museum Presents Major Survey of Modern Art Created in the American South
Southern/Modern January 26–April 28, 2024 NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Frist Art Museum presents Southern/Modern, the first comprehensive survey of paintings and works on paper created in the American South between 1913 and 1955 that reflect a period of change and upheaval across the region. Organized by the Mint Museum in collaboration with the Georgia…
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The Gritty Glamour of Dustin Pittman
Growing up amid the verdant splendor of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, Dustin Pittman recalls the day Hollywood came to town. A young ingénue named Liza Minnelli had been cast in her first major role, a quirky college girl named “Pookie” who falls in love, then falls apart after her boyfriend finds her “too much.” Seeking…
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How The World Trade Center Became a Premiere Incubator for Visual Artists
For up-and-coming visual artists in New York City, the notion of having a large studio space that allows them to do expansive work is often little more than a pipe dream squashed by the reality of high rents. But for 28 artists every year, this fantasy becomes reality, as they get to create their art…
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A New Retrospective Proves Iris van Herpen’s Clothes Have Always Been Works of Art
In 2018, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris acquired the very first dress to ever be 3D-printed in the history of fashion. That single, historic frock became the catalyst for a sprawling new retrospective that opened in late November at the French museum. “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses”—on view through April 28, 2024—features…
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Evansville artist/USI professor featured at Thyen-Clark Cultural Center – Dubois County Free Press, Inc.
Jasper Community Arts is pleased to present the work of Evansville artist and art professor Rob Miillard-Mendez from December to February at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center. Millard-Mendez’s exhibit features an array of handcrafted wood and mixed-media sculptures. Millard-Mendez stated, “The primary aim in my work is to illustrate and analyze concepts that I find enthralling.…
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The ‘Art of Zen’ comes briefly to Asian Art Museum
For the first time in 400 years, two pillars of Chan Buddhist brush painting have left their home at the Zen Buddhist temple Daitokuji Ryokoin in Kyoto, Japan, for display in “The Heart of Zen,” a brief exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Sequenced to match the changing seasons, “Persimmons” and “Chestnuts,”…