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McNeese visual arts students host food drive, art giveaway
McNeese visual arts students host food drive, art giveaway Published 9:36 pm Saturday, November 11, 2023 (Special to the American Press) McNeese State University visual art students are hosting a food drive and art give away noon-2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the Grand Gallery of the Shearman Fine Arts Annex. All are invited to bring…
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More than 300 pieces win visual arts awards during NIFCA showcase
Just over 300 pieces won visual arts awards during this year’s National Cultural Foundation (NCF) National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) showcase. During the opening ceremony for this year’s exhibit, being held in the Queen’s Park Gallery and Queen’s Park Steel Shed, Oneka Small, Curator at the NCF, said that the foundation continues to…
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Michigan Art Educator of the Year doesn’t really ‘teach art:’ ‘I teach people how to be artists.’
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Nathan Kukla doesn’t teach art. He teaches students how to be artists, and how to think like artists. Kukla, who is in his 25th year as an art instructor, knows how hard it can be for students to put themselves out there and showcase their creativity through art. He also knows…
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Netflix restores Hollywood’s iconic Egyptian Theatre
As an arts correspondent based at NPR West, Mandalit del Barco reports and produces stories about film, television, music, visual arts, dance and other topics. Over the years, she has also covered everything from street gangs to Hollywood, police and prisons, marijuana, immigration, race relations, natural disasters, Latino arts and urban street culture (including hip…
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Arts’ Watch: Write. Read. Submit.
Arts’ Watch: Write. Read. Submit. Published 8:00 am Saturday, November 11, 2023 Bill McCann By Bill McCann Columnist NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month— runs the entire month of November. If you are up to the challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel in a month, roughly 1,667 words daily—go for it! Everyone who aspires to write a…
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New plays, music and art are coming to Dallas, thanks to TACA New Works Fund
Four Dallas arts organizations producing new works got a funding boost so they can turn imagination and innovation into artistic reality. On Tuesday night, TACA (The Arts Community Alliance) announced the 2023 recipients of its New Works Fund. Cara Mía Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Nasher Sculpture and Verdigris Ensemble will share the $125,000 distribution to…
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Women in Revolt! review — politics and art fail to fuse at Tate Britain
“I don’t know whether to hug or punch you: you’re from Tate!” So declared Bobby Baker, 73, on opening her door to Linsey Young, curator of Tate Britain’s new show Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. Young interviewed scores of women in their 60s, 70s and 80s to unearth work made…
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Ballet Hispánico opens a whole new world of dance for NYC high school students
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan — Some say dance is the key to happiness. Through bachata and afrobeats, students at the High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice are breathing new life into the school’s dance studio. Its been music-less for years, until now – thanks in part to Ballet Hispánico, one of the country’s…
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TACA Announces Diverse Group of Four 2023 New Works Recipients
TACA, The Arts Community Alliance, has announced four 2023 recipients of its re-envisioned New Works Fund that supports new works of performing, literary, and visual art in varying stages of development by BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and female artists. The organization said that a diverse group of four arts organizations representing multidisciplinary new works will share the…