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HPAC brings in $458K, new exhibitions director
The Hyde Park Art Center’s two-story main gallery filled with fluttering pink, yellow, red, green and blue confetti on Friday night as a jubilant crowd of gala goers celebrated good news — the center had raised beyond its goal of $85,000 in pledges that evening. Combined with pre-gala pledges, HPAC leaders say, the total raised by…
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Crafting Classics and Conversations: Nadine Saylor transforms tradition into stunning glass artistry
Post Views: 39 SAYLOR IS FEATURED IN THE 2024 NEW FRONTIERS MAGAZINE In the cozy corners of UNK’s Art and Design Department, assistant professor Nadine Saylor is doing something cool with glass. She takes everyday items – think buttons, watering cans and oil cans – and turns them into stunning glass art. These aren’t just…
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Review: ‘Making Home — Smithsonian Design Triennial’ vividly redefines the idea of home
Beams of sunlight stream through the white-framed windows of an atrium, illuminating a garden outside while casting shadows across floral wallpaper — a seemingly idyllic household. A trio of capes adorned with turkey feathers hang from the ceiling of this picturesque room, opening up the entrance to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s newest exhibition “Making…
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Our Bodies, Ourselves: Figuration Features in “Mirror of the Mind” at El Espacio 23
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Try a ‘Try Night’ to beat winter doldrums
If at first you don’t succeed at signing up for one of the Art Association’s “Try Nights,” try, try again. The valley’s visual arts nonprofit maintains a waitlist for classes that fill up, and people’s schedules and plans change all the time, so you might find yourself bumped to the top of the list. ×…
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Guild Hall Delivers Top Honors at 85th Artist Members Show
Guild Hall’s 85th Artist Members Show installation, Photo: Gary Mamay Guild Hall’s annual Artist Members Exhibition is back for its 85th year with another exciting and wide-ranging mix of work in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and more by some of the community’s top and rising talents. All of the art…
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It was supposed to be a masterpiece. Instead, this Boston Public Library mural remains blank.
On the top floor of the Boston Public Library, a magnificent gallery of paintings depict old pagan religions, Hebrew prophets and the emergence of Christianity. But the gallery is missing its centerpiece, and has been for over a century. On the east wall is a massive rectangle of blank, sand-colored stone where a mural called…
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Mixed media show open through Dec. 22
A reception for the Comfort Zone Mixed Media Exhibition at Kent Island Federation of Arts was hosted Nov. 16, in Stevensville. Show Judge Jackie Jablecki, art teacher at Centreville Middle School was enthusiastic in talking about the winning pieces. Dozens attended the opening reception. The 40 pieces in this show feature wet and dry media…
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Washington People: Monika Weiss
[embedded content] Experience “Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture),” Monika Weiss’ new commission for St. Louis’ Laumeier Sculpture Park. (Video: Whitney Curtis/WashU) The forest is never silent. Winds blow, leaves rustle, trees creak and sway. Music arises slowly, beneath the birds and crickets and katydids. The electronic hum washes outward from two steel columns. Sound burbles like water, clangs like…
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How art and nature intersect at the Creative Creatures event
This is a paid piece from the Sioux Falls Zoo and Aquarium. Simplified: Local artists will share their work – inspired, in part, by the beauty of butterflies and sea creatures – during an upcoming event hosted by the Butterfly House and Aquarium. Here’s what you need to know about Creative Creatures. Why it matters…
