Share Tweet Share Share Email Independent films and art projects often struggle to find financial backing. Unlike mainstream productions, these projects lack corporate funding or big studio investments. Crowdfunding has emerged as a powerful tool, giving creators the financial support they need. It allows artists and filmmakers to
When Chattanooga realist painter James Courtenay James organized the first art critique night at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, four people showed up to share their work. Then the pandemic hit. The monthly event moved to Zoom, but rather than tapering off, more artists began to join. Now back in person, critique night
Visual Arts Round-up for February: Valentine’s Photos, Meet the Artists XXXVII, Blue Chips, and First Friday As the city warms up from our frigid, below-zero temps of January, the cultural opportunities have awakened from the frosty New Year. In no particular order, we present a list of visual arts exhibits going on for February, replete
There is something exciting about the best new artist award at the Grammys. It is, by its nature, celebrating the fresh and, sometimes, the novel. Some of the nominees are sweetly green, while others have toiled for years without piercing the mainstream. All seem thrilled to be nominated. The award can be a kind of
Asheville, North Carolina CNN — His devotees call themselves “Potheads,” and they feverishly collect and trade his pottery online. He says he’s just trying to build an ethical brand that benefits his workers and his community – a business model that was put to the test when Hurricane Helene tore through his adopted home here
Chassica Kirchhoff is a treasure hunter of sorts. As assistant curator of European sculpture and decorative arts for the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), she is tasked with researching, identifying and acquiring artwork for the museum’s collection. And wait until visitors see what she’s dug up. “This is a once-in-a-curator’s career acquisition,” Kirchhoff said of
The Worcester Art Museum announced Thursday that it has voluntarily agreed to return a pair of antiquities that were likely removed illegally from Italy. The returns are part of a long-term loan agreement that enables the museum to display the objects for up to eight years before exchanging them for comparable antiquities from Italian museums.
An exhibition at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh will place for the first time the Scottish Colourists—the artists Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, Leslie Hunter and John Duncan Fergusson—in the context of their UK and European contemporaries. Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives, organised in partnership with the Fleming Collection, is the brainchild of Fleming’s curator
Applications are now open for the Brucebo Fine Art Summer Residency Scholarship and the William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Travel Scholarship for Summer 2025. Call for Applications: Brucebo Fine Art Summer Residency Scholarship The Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for the Brucebo Fine Art Summer Residency Scholarship, offering a three-month residency in Summer
FERRARA, Italy, Jan. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The European Art of Taste-Fruit&Veg Masterpieces, the project financed by the European Union, devised by CSO Italy and participated by the following companies: RK Growers, Mazzoni Group, Apofruit, Origine Group, and Oranfrizer, closes on a positive note. The programme, which will end on 31 January 2025 (and