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These Teenaged Twins Bring The Arts To STEM To Make It More Fun
In 2023, STEM skills have become more crucial than ever. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in STEM fields will grow by 11 percent by 2031, and enjoy a median salary of over $100K. The ultimate goal of an education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics concerns more than simply mastery of these…
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Phoenix Art Museum announces call for submissions by Arizona-based artists for 2024
Phoenix Art Museum has opened the annual call for submission for the institution’s Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards (Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards). The juried grant program provides recognition and financial support for emerging, professional, Arizona-based artists. For the 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards open call, Phoenix Art Museum is collaborating with Artlink, a…
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Tri-Valley student recognized for artistry
The Tri-Valley Lions Club honored Mazie Sankus as Outstanding Student of the Arts for November. Mazie was selected for her talent as a visual artist. Mazie, a daughter of Paul and Nikki Sankus, resides in Hegins and is a senior at Tri-Valley High School. In addition to her artistic accomplishments in school, she has participated…
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Take a Ride Around Los Angeles with Hammer Museum’s ‘Made in L.A.’ Biennial
What’s more “L.A.” than sitting in traffic? So, what could be a better way of assessing the Los Angeles arts scene than planning the city’s arts biennial looking through a car windshield? That’s how independent curator Diana Nawi and Hammer Museum curator Pablo José Ramírez put together the sixth edition of the Hammer Museum’s “Made…
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‘Pathless Land’ set to find way to Signal Arts Centre
Pathless Land: A multidimensional collaborative installation by Eleanor Dawson, Ashleigh Downey, Justyna Kosmulska and Sylvia Hill is an ongoing collaboration, first initiated by an ArtNet dlr Metamorphosis project, in Dun Laoghaire, in 2020-2021. The artists then worked together during what they described as the two first, intense years of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Our work represents…
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Northlandia: Duluth, Virginia statues help us remember
VIRGINIA and DULUTH — Statues serve many different purposes. One such purpose is to help those visiting them recall the past and memorialize those who have come before. The Northland is home to many statues that serve as memorials for veterans, noteworthy people and even fictional characters. Today, let’s look into two statues that serve…
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Comics, controversy and a bold choice: How Jersey City artist won competition to create Philadelphia’s Harriet Tubman statue
When Alvin Pettit’s phone rang Oct. 24, he saw a Philadelphia number and assumed it was someone from his family reaching out. But when the Jersey City artist answered, it was the city of Philadelphia delivering big news: Pettit was chosen as the winning sculptor for the city’s new Harriet Tubman statue to be placed…
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The Legacy of the Weedians
Arik “Moonhawk” Roper has been essential in helping define a visual style for countless bands and projects that use the word “stoner” in their description. His instantly recognizable illustrations look like a cross between something from an old pulp fiction novel and Heavy Metal magazine. The wild, sci-fi fantasy feelings that Roper’s work evokes have…
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Hard Times
Books & the Arts / November 25, 2023 The radical art of the Depression years. Ad Policy Untitled (Strike), Dox Thrash, c. 1940. This article appears in the December 11/18, 2023 issue. The art of the 1930s occupies a unique place in American cultural history, for it was in the 1930s that art—so often a…
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The Radical Art of the Depression Years
Books & the Arts / November 25, 2023 The radical art of the Depression years. By working within the constraints of the WPA, artists like Philip Guston discovered new modes of representation and irony. Ad Policy Untitled (Strike), Dox Thrash, c. 1940. This article appears in the December 11/18, 2023 issue. The art of the…
