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Characters of the County: With Art and Community, Peter Bruun Knocks Down the Walls of Stigma – The Lincoln County News
Peter Bruun, of Damariscotta, stands along Main Street on Thursday, May 29. Bruun, an artist, former art teacher, and founder of the art and community nonprofit Studio B, has lived in the area since 2019 and seeks to destigmatize conversations around subjects like substance abuse through art. (Johnathan Riley photo) Peter Bruun, an artist, art…
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Craft, care, and graciousness in the architecture of Richard Brown
Architect Richard Brown, relaxing with a cup of coffee. Photo: Susan Strom Richard puts human well-being first. ~ William Tripp, AIA *** Architecture is one of those disciplines that lies in-between. It’s partly art and partly science. A priori, a building must be structurally sound and functional. At the same time, we want buildings…
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Modern Iraqi Art Reframed: Baghdad Group Exhibit Opens at CCS Bard This Month
Imagine Baghdad in 1951. Not the war-ravaged cipher of Western headlines, but a buzzing capital of postcolonial promise, flush with ideas and aesthetic ambition. It’s here that a handful of artists—including sculptor Jewad Selim and philosopher-painter Shakir Hassan Al Said—launched the Baghdad Group for Modern Art, a collective devoted to charting a new path for…
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Greenbelt’s Art in the Barn returns this weekend
ESSEX — Art in the Barn, Essex County Greenbelt’s annual celebration of regional art and land conservation, returns Friday and Saturday. Now in its third decade, this celebrated North Shore tradition features a juried selection of works by over 130 artists. More than a thousand pieces — ranging from paintings and photography to sculpture, stained…
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AVA’s New Art Exhibits Open This Friday, Featuring The Color Yellow
The Association for Visual Arts (AVA) is pleased to announce its next temporary gallery exhibitions, which will open to the public this Friday, June 13. The main exhibition will be The Color Yellow: An AVA Member Thematic Show. AVA put a call out to their member base in April, looking for artworks that explored, utilized…
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‘Steady’ stream of visitors tour artists from across the region in first-ever Indiana County Art Studio Tour
Despite a dreary, rainy day Sunday, visitors milled through the studios above the Indiana Theater as part of the Indiana County Art Studio Tour, meeting artists and chatting about inspirations, styles and processes. Saturday saw a steadier stream of people, leading to intriguing and insightful conversations about art and its creators across Indiana County, according…
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UCLA artist Luis Ramirez crafts cultural works centering on Oaxacan heritage
Luis Ramirez paints with his culture in mind. As a multimedia artist, the fourth-year art student said he primarily expresses himself through painting, while also practicing drawing and photography. He said his passion for painting stemmed from the joy he felt when sharing his artwork with other people. Ramirez, who comes from a first-generation and…
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Washington County Museum of Fine Arts names Linda Johnson as new curator
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Linda Johnson, currently visiting professor of art history at the University of Michigan-Flint, has been named as the new Agnita M. Stine Schreiber Curator, effective in July, for the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown. Johnson is…
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Festival of the Arts draws 150 artisans, thousands of visitors to downtown Frederick
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Douglas Hill knows the story behind each piece of wood in his shop. A third-generation carpenter from Bergen County, New Jersey, Hill spent 25 years in the home improvement business before deciding to focus exclusively on fine woodwork. ×…
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Looking ahead at this week in Durham arts
From visual arts to music and dance, this week is packed with fun events and great pick-me-ups for the rainy Durham week ahead. This week is the final opportunity to see the exhibit “Trajectories: Liberated Pathways through Makeup, Photography, and Jewelry,” which closes Tuesday, June 10. This Maya Ghanem and Nashia Ogbuagu photographic collaboration “envisions…