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Jacqueline Surdell: Adoration Garden
Invited by Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA) to create an exhibition that engages with the gallery space of the museum, Jacqueline Surdell, presents Adoration Garden, an installation that includes two-large sculptural works made of rope and cord and a series of small altarpieces, which are in part an homage to her late grandmother…
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Braided Temporalities: A Review of 35th Bienal de São Paulo (And A Recap of Past Highlights)
Torkwase Dyson, partial view of “Blackbasebeingbeyond,” 2023. Courtesy Fundação Bienal de São Paulo/Photo: Levi Fanan. I have been attending the São Paulo biennials since I moved here in the early 1980s. The event is one of the pillars of my views as an art historian after going to college abroad and having always loved art…
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Lovie Olivia’s Interdisciplinary Work Pushes Boundaries by Ignoring Them
“Forest,” Lovie Olivia It is the persistent question asked of artists but answered mostly by the ecosystems surrounding them: What do you call your work? Is it assemblage? Collage? Found sculpture? Is it a tapestry? You call that a painting? Lovie Olivia, a self-described autodidact, calls it work. Beauty as a Method, Olivia’s solo show…
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Good news in the district
School district, educator receive state recognition for visual arts The School District of Philadelphia has been named an Outstanding Visual Arts Community from the Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA).
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Two more programs on chopping block as part of TRU’s visual arts shakeup
Photo: TRU Two additional Thompson Rivers University certificate programs have been placed on the chopping block alongside the university’s visual arts programs. University senator Craig Jones said during a meeting Monday that the certificate of literary and art history and the drawing and painting certificate are being added to the proposed elimination of visual arts…
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Community invited to submit art for upcoming exhibition
The Department of Visual Arts is inviting the Brock and wider community to submit their artworks to be considered for an upcoming community art sale and exhibition at Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. The Department of Visual Arts (VISA) is encouraging the Brock and wider communities to showcase their artistic…
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New Hope-Solebury Distinguished As Outstanding Visual Arts Community
NEW HOPE, PA — The New Hope-Solebury School District has been recognized as an Outstanding Visual Arts Community by the Pennsylvania Art Education Association and has received a gold designation on the College Board’s Advanced Placement School Honor Roll. “Our district is constantly seeking new opportunities to prepare students for the global landscape ahead of…
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Perfect opportunity for the canny investor
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Perched high on the cliff above Tamarama beach is a new home that claims to take “ocean-front designer living to the next level”. “Form and function meet as one”, boasts the breathless marketing spiel, while “minimalism is totally maximised” in the design. However, if you’re tempted to…
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How Mika Brzezinski is honoring her mother
It has been just over a year since sculptor Emilie Brzezinski passed away at the age of 90, and yet her art and legacy lives on. Her daughter, “Morning Joe” co-host and Know Your Value founder Mika Brzezinski, has been continuously working on ways to share her mom’s work with the world. And on October…
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How to Make an Artistic Life: CFA Class Offers an Inside View
Directors of the college’s three schools share their stories Kinh Vu is known for his animated classroom style, but nobody saw the directors dance party coming. Vu popped on the BeeGees’ “Stayin’ Alive” so everyone could loosen up at the start of a recent session of Doing, Making & Knowing: The CFA Experience (CFA FA…
