Category: Visual Arts

  • The Visual Power of Black Rest

    The Visual Power of Black Rest

    Cultural Comment The Visual Power of Black Rest “Sin Don’t Live Here,” 2017.Photograph by Daveed Baptiste Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story “When the psychohistory of a people is marked by ongoing loss, when entire histories are denied, hidden, erased, documentation can become an obsession,” bell hooks writes in her book…

  • Art About Agriculture celebrates 40th anniversary with show in

    Art About Agriculture celebrates 40th anniversary with show in

    CORVALLIS, Ore. – Art About Agriculture’s annual exhibition of agriculture and natural resource-themed artwork by Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a touring show that will be on display from Nov. 17 to Dec. 31 in Portland. The juried show in the Antoinette Hatfield Hall Rotunda at Portland’5 Centers…

  • Pennsylvania Art Education Association honors Delaware Valley School District

    Pennsylvania Art Education Association honors Delaware Valley School District

    The Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA) recently recognized the Delaware Valley School District for its commitment to visual arts education with the endorsement of Outstanding Visual Arts Community 2023. According to the PAEA, districts receiving this endorsement demonstrate the importance of their visual arts programs with: – Rigorous and Inclusive Programs: Arts programs that use…

  • New Data Reveal How Adults Participated in the Arts During COVID-19

    New Data Reveal How Adults Participated in the Arts During COVID-19

    A masked audience watches a performance at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 2020. Photo courtesy of the Lied Center for Performing Arts at University of Nebraska. Washington, DC—What was the impact of COVID-19 on arts participation? New research released today by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) notes that…

  • 2023-2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay, Visual Arts and Poetry Contests open to Kentucky students

    2023-2024 Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay, Visual Arts and Poetry Contests open to Kentucky students

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  • Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic is coming down

    Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic is coming down

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! It took Isaiah Zagar nine years to make the 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping around the Painted Bride building in Philadelphia’s Old City. The work stood for a quarter century, then endured a five-year…

  • AI in the Arts and Public Policy

    AI in the Arts and Public Policy

    With the sudden rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, issues surrounding intellectual property rights and copyright laws have become a pressing concern in Hollywood and visual arts as a whole. Recent writer strikes have emphasized the necessity to scrutinize the new technology and pass public policy to regulate it.  Darian Mullen,…

  • Art history lecture at Rice to explore race, racism and representation in Roman art

    Art history lecture at Rice to explore race, racism and representation in Roman art

    Rice’s Department of Art History will hold a lecture, “‘Race,’ Racism and Representation in Roman Art: Aethiopians in the Visual Arts of the Roman World,” at Fondren Library Oct. 26. The lecture will feature Sinclair Bell, professor of art history at Northern Illinois University, and will be moderated by Sophie Crawford-Brown, assistant professor of art…

  • Mark Cavagnero Associates completes a new visual arts building

    Mark Cavagnero Associates completes a new visual arts building

    Southwest of San Jose, California’s city center and just down the road from Apple HQ in Cupertino is West Valley College, a 140-acre public community college with over 8,000 students in San Jose’s Saratoga district. This September, a new visual arts building at West Valley College’s Cilker School of Art and Design opened to students…

  • Paris Cultivates a New Allure

    Paris Cultivates a New Allure

    It’s a lively time for the art world in the French capital, with new art foundations, fresh outposts for major galleries and the city’s relative affordability. A century or so ago, Paris was the undisputed epicenter of the international art world, the birthplace of the avant-garde. The city teemed with talents from all over —…