SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) — The Springfield Art Association featured exhibit is ART is Exceptional, which is a unique collection of artwork that helps to highlight the scope of District 186’s visual arts program. There will be a public reception on Wednesday, November 15th from 6 p.m-7:30 p.m. at Springfield Art Association (SAA) M.G. Nelson Gallery…

Sandro Botticelli, “Five Sibyls in Niches: The Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cimmerian and Erythraean,” c. 1465-1470. Photo: © Christ Church Picture Gallery Before the year is out, the Bay Area has a few more potential showstoppers on the visual arts calendar.  There’s an unprecedented showing of a Renaissance master, a San Francisco first for an acclaimed…

It seems culture and the arts are big business in Leon County. Tom Flanigan reports that’s the conclusion of a national arts advocacy group that studied the impact of the area’s non-profit arts groups and their audiences on the local economy. The study was done by the Washington, DC-based Americans for the Arts where Randy…

Robert Glen, whose Mustangs of Las Colinas became part of the area’s identity, has died in Cork, Ireland. He was 83. Glen died of a short illness on Oct. 28, the city of Irving and the Mustangs of Las Colinas Museum and Visitor Center announced Tuesday. Advertisement Irving Mayor Rick Stopfer said in a statement…

Join us on Thursday, November 30, 2023, from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at Boston City Hall for the Fay Chandler EMERGING Art Exhibition Gallery Reception. We’ll be celebrating all of this year’s selected artworks and announcing the winners of the award categories! About Fay Chandler In 1960, Fay Chandler was a 39-year-old mother of four…

The four-year-old instant-classic LED art installation Entwined will return next month for its longest run yet in Golden Gate Park, but at a different location and with a massive new addition. We’ve got behind-the-scenes photos of the colorful magic that’s in the works. San Francisco’s new annual razzle-dazzle holiday hit for the last three years…

Editor’s Note: In partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation and the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, TCG’s THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of Color initiative offered $1,140,000, equaling 46 grants in 3 categories, to U.S.-based (including Tribal lands and Territories) Black Theatres, Indigenous Theatres, and Theatres of Color (BITOC). In addition to the funds, 21 BITOC…

“As sensitive human beings, when we walk through landscapes, it is a procession that is always moving and changing. I love this question of mutation of the view,” says the artist Eva Nielsen as she guides me through her gorgeous, textural, otherworldly installation “Insolare.” Created alongside the curator and her longtime collaborator Marianne Derrien, it…

Arkansas’ Charter Authorizing Panel approved the charter school application for the Institute for the Creative Arts at its meeting Tuesday (Nov. 14) opening the door for Arkansas’ first performing and visual arts high school to be located in Fort Smith. The school still has to receive formal approval from the Arkansas Department of Education at…