Category: Visual Arts

  • Blind Rochester senior’s vision leads to special gift for principal

    Blind Rochester senior’s vision leads to special gift for principal

    IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. — A high school senior from the Rochester area is being recognized for a selfless act. It involves her senior parking spot, her principal’s favorite football team — and a paintbrush.  When Maddie Underhill has a vision, she best expresses it through art. “Art gives me that freedom,” said Underhill, a senior at…

  • 16 things to do: Donate to Buff Pantry and more

    16 things to do: Donate to Buff Pantry and more

    Kick off the week before fall break with some fun events: a CU Farm & Garden Club party, a celebration in honor of America Recycles Day, laser shows at the planetarium, DIY craft night, CU volleyball and more. Monday, Nov. 13 9 a.m.–4 p.m. UMC, Buff Pantry, Room 1B73 Do you have any extra food and personal…

  • ECU sale benefiting art guilds and students kicks off holidays

    ECU sale benefiting art guilds and students kicks off holidays

    Ceramics, like these from 2022’s show, will be among the unique pieces available for purchase at the annual ECU School of Art and Design Holiday Exhibition and Sale this week. (Photo by Rhett Butler) An annual holiday fundraiser that benefits art guilds and students in the School of Art and Design returns to East Carolina…

  • Manju Journal’s New Book Spotlights Ghana’s Booming Art Scene

    Manju Journal’s New Book Spotlights Ghana’s Booming Art Scene

    As they publish their debut book, Manju Journal founder Richmond Orlando Mensah talks about pushing modern African art and creativity into the mainstream November 13, 2023 Ghanaian curator, artist and director Richmond Orlando Mensah founded Manju Journal in 2015, with the aim of forging a space for local creatives in Accra to connect and build…

  • Wayne State activity notes

    Wayne State activity notes

    Art exhibit WAYNE — “Box of Trinkets,” featuring artwork by four Wayne State College seniors, opens Wednesday, Nov. 29, with a 4:30 p.m. reception in the Nordstrand Visual Arts Gallery, located on the main level of U.S. Conn Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public through mid-January. Exhibiting artists include art education…

  • Carnegie Mellon Unveils Design for New Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences

    Set back by a plaza along Forbes Avenue, the building’s ground floor takes design nods from a thistle — the national flower of Scotland — which adorns the center of CMU’s seal that was created in 1967 at the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute. This section of the building…

  • This local Frisco artist seeks to be a change maker

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  • Detroit artists funnel frustrations with DTE Energy into group show

    Detroit artists funnel frustrations with DTE Energy into group show

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  • An innovative blend of arts and education in Suffolk – The Suffolk News-Herald

    An innovative blend of arts and education in Suffolk – The Suffolk News-Herald

    An innovative blend of arts and education in Suffolk Published 8:27 am Monday, November 13, 2023 Suffolk Center and Suffolk Schools create a perfect synergy for advancing the Arts in the community. This partnership comes in many forms, including displaying Suffolk Public Schools artwork in the Center’s hallways, free School Matinees in the Birdsong Theater,…

  • Black Arts Matter Festival brings variety of artistic perspectives to Madison

    Black Arts Matter Festival brings variety of artistic perspectives to Madison

    After a week full of festivities, the Black Arts Matter Festival officially wrapped up for the year on Sunday. ​COPYRIGHT 2023 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED. MADISON, Wis. — After a week full of festivities, the Black Arts Matter Festival officially wrapped up for…