November 24, 2024
Visual artists

Visual artist Jiemei Lin plants, waters ‘Seeds’ through painting, community engagement

Visual artist Jiemei Lin may be based in Pullman, but she’s left her mark – literally – on Spokane. As you admire the Black Lives Matter mural, you’ll see Lin’s vibrant orange, red, yellow and blue flowers in the first ‘T’ in “Matter.” If you take a peek between Howard and Wall streets, you’ll see

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Local notes: Inaugural Boots and Badges Blood Drive coming May 9; Artist 360 grant applications open; Women in History honored

Grant applications open Artists 360 offers five $2,500 undergraduate student grants, five $5,000 graduate student grants, fifteen $10,000 practicing artist grants, five $17,500 community activator grants and one $25,000 Creative Impact Award to artists in 2024. Artists 360 includes learning opportunities to develop entrepreneurial skills, build sustainable careers and create a network of leading regional

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Riverdale artists represented at Yonkers studio event | The Riverdale Press

By Eric Harvey If a picture speaks a thousand words then does a gallery of artists tell a never-endin- story? Art connoisseurs may learn that answer at the 20th annual artist open studio event, part of Yonkers Arts Weekend, at the Carpet Mills Art District on May 4 and May 5. More than 50 artists

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Virginia Beach Mayor and local artist’s ‘bring politics to a street level’ in public conversations

Mayor Bobby Dyer and Gabe Niles held a conversation on culture, quality of life, and the future of Virginia Beach VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Taking place tonight at Coastal Mod Gallery, Mayor Bobby Dyer and local DJ and Producer, Gabe Niles(also known as BugMan) headlined an hour-long conversation about the role creatives and the arts

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Frank Stella, artist renowned for geometric works, dies at 87

NEW YORK — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. Gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, who spoke with Stella’s family, confirmed his death to The Associated Press. Stella’s wife, Harriet

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Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works served as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, has died May 4, 2024, 8:22 PM ET • 2 min read NEW YORK — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist

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Frank Stella dies; Malden native was legendary artist

Beginning with a rigid, minimal take on abstraction while still a student at Princeton University in the 1950s, Mr. Stella had an unquenchable curiosity that would take him from the canvas to broader, more extravagant hybrid works, and eventually monumental public sculptures that occupy prominent places in cities all over the world. Get Globe Weather

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Influential American painter Frank Stella has died at age 87 : NPR

Frank Stella with one of his works at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in London in 2000. Ian Nicholson/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ian Nicholson/PA Images via Getty Images Frank Stella with one of his works at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in London in 2000. Ian Nicholson/PA Images via Getty

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Frank Stella, Artist Who Pushed Abstraction to Its Limits, Dies at 87

Frank Stella, an artist who brought abstraction into brave new directions, defining an era with his “Black Paintings” of the 1950s, died on Saturday at 87. The New York Times reported that he had been battling lymphoma. Stella was among the many artists who responded to the growth of Abstract Expressionism in the postwar years.

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San Rafael artist reflects on work as ‘call to action’

Patrick Gannon’s “Democracy Under Fire” (Courtesy of Patrick Gannon) Patrick Gannon is not afraid to make a statement with his art. During the drought in 2014, the San Rafael resident drained his swimming pool and turned it into a mural that spoke to his concerns about climate change. And over the last few years, he’s

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