The city of Minneapolis wants to get more artists producing art around the city and started its Cultural Districts Arts Fund on Friday that will offer nearly $700,000 in arts grants each year. When Ben Johnson moved back to Minneapolis from Los Angeles in 2023 to become the director of Minneapolis’ brand-new Arts & Cultural
On the pop music charts, Chappell Roan is hot — and not to go. The singer-songwriter has been steadily on the rise since the release of her latest single “Good Luck, Babe!” She currently has three hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and her headline-making performances at music festivals like Coachella, Governors Ball
The Boston Arts and Music Soul Fest, also known as BAMS Fest, takes over Franklin Park’s Playstead Field June 29 and 30. The festival will center jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop artists from Boston and New England alongside both national and international acts. “There’s so many different cultures and so much richness of history,
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If you’ve seen the artworks of Marianna Simnett, you know that it is not easy to forget them. The multidisciplinary artist who works between film, installation, drawing, painting, sculpture, and even theater, is a world-builder of surreal and sometimes horrific proportions. Her works lodge themselves deep into your psyche with an unsettling amount of imagery,
Explore In 2023, author Melanie Mitchell discovered that a cheap AI-generated imitation of her book on, ironically, the subject of artificial intelligence was for sale on Amazon. She reported it, but the platform didn’t take action to remove it until the story of the theft caught the attention of the media. “I was mad at
BELCHER/SAREPTA, La. (KSLA) – The Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC) is calling on artists to design gateway signage along the Boom or Bust Byway in northwest Louisiana. These large road signs, which are in place from Vivian all the way to Lake Claiborne, will feature iconic imagery for the towns they represent. Seven signs have
As country music fans, we open our favorite music streaming sites, we download and listen to our favorite songs and pay our hard-earned money to go see our favorite artists play live in front of thousands. But, have you ever stopped to think what these uber-famous, successful and wealthy country artists did before they were
What was something you didn’t expect to find or see when you met Zeinab during the photoshoot? I appreciated their use of note-taking for their projects. I remember them having quite a few tests and sketches. You had a session with CondéFuture students, and since we believe that every encounter is mutual, we’d like to
Twelve Chicagoland performing artists to each receive an unrestricted grant and professional development opportunities CHICAGO, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Walder Foundation today announced it will award $2.4 million to performing artists through its inaugural Platform Awards, which support accomplished Chicagoland mid-career music, theater, dance, and interdisciplinary performance artists who are enriching the city’s creative