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KEVIN KIRKWOOD: Embracing the art of being vulnerable | Visual Arts | Savannah News, Events, Restaurants, Music

Kevin Kirkwood’s website (kevinwillpaint.com) describes the recent SCAD MFA graduate as a “multi-disciplined designer based in Savannah, GA” whose “current studio practice dances between small-scale conceptual installations and making acrylic paintings.” What his website cannot describe is how downright nice this guy is. Thoughtful, intentional, spiritual, introverted to the point of an almost painful shyness,

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Is the Las Vegas Arts District too expensive for artists?

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – With the growing development in the Las Vegas Arts District, many locals and artists say it is losing its artsy feel. Fewer art galleries have been spotted in the area and instead more restaurants and businesses have taken shape. Several artists told 8 News Now it has become too expensive to

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Local Artists and Art Patrons Criticize OCAF After Recent Controversies

Last September, the board of the nonprofit Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation fired its director and administrative assistant with no explanation. The next few weeks saw the resignation of the board chair, Cyndee Perdue Moore, the public relations director for the Clarke County School District. Remaining and new board members met face-to-face Jan. 11 with about

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LGBTQ artists lead the 2024 Coachella lineup

Queer icons are leading the way on the Coachella 2024 lineup. (Joseph Okpako/Amy Sussman/Getty) The 2024 Coachella lineup has just been announced, and it’s set to be a celebration of queer music and performance. The full lineup for the Indio, California festival was revealed on 16 January 2024, and one thing is for sure: LGBTQ+

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Art and Words festival in Gibsons seems qathet contributors

Author and president of the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society (SCWES) Cathalynn Labonté-Smith is opening up the third annual Art and Words Festival to qathet residents. The lower Sunshine Coast festival happens from August 22 to August 25, 2024, at Gibsons Public Market. As of now, Labonté-Smith is looking for submissions from writers, photographers

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Sacramento artist wins ‘Best New Exhibitor’ at Red Dot Miami

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento artist Raphael Delgado recently displayed his work at the Red Dot Miami 2023 art fair and was named a Best New Exhibitor. With three large-scale murals across the city and a collection of colorful paintings, Delgado said he decided to take his work to Miami Art Week and see how people

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Every Electronic Artist Playing The Festival – Billboard

Pedro Winter After much anticipation and as much speculation, the Coachella 2024 lineup was released Tuesday (Jan. 16). The Southern California festival will feature headliners Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat, with the rest of the bill featuring, as always, a strong contingent of dance/electronic acts. The dance artists getting highest billing

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116 Galleries paint the town at ART SG!

Take a seat. You’re about to be served. Brace yourself, my dearest reader, for the feast you’re about to embark on. The menu? A tantalising array of artistic flavours curated from the corners of the globe. You see, ART SG isn’t just an art fair – it’s a Michelin-starred extravaganza where canvases are plated, sculptures

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Two local artists featured in the Revelstoke Visual Art Centre’s new exhibit

The Revelstoke Visual Art Centre is running a new exhibit, featuring the work of four artists (two of whom are local). The exhibition runs Jan. 4–28. Featured artists include: Andrea Simmonds, Antonia Otoya, Axel Morrison, and Charise Folnovic. Both Morrison and Otoya opted to include murals in their work. Programming Director, Taylor Sandell said that

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Feel the energy of an artist’s posthumous exhibit at Surrey gallery

The current month-long art exhibit at Newton Cultural Centre was installed on the third anniversary of the artist’s death. Diana Robleś passed Jan. 4, 2021, after being diagnosed with stage-four ovarian cancer just weeks earlier, at age 78. “It was very quick,” said her partner, Frazer Cole, who in 2017 published a book of Robleś’

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