The Oregon Arts Commission and the and Ford Family Foundation announced Monday their first round of 2024 Career Opportunity Program grant awards going to 24 artists. One of those artists is from Bend. Nancy Floyd will receive $2,000 from the Oregon Arts Commission and $6,000 from the Ford Family Foundation for production and travel expenses associated
Today (January 8) is David Bowie’s birthday. If the genre-bending, gender-bending artist were alive today he would be 77-years-old. Sadly, though, the artist, who melded nuance with pop culture, passed away on January 10. 2016, at just 69-years-old. But of course, Bowie’s impact from his astonishing career remains today, both in global culture at large
Details By Kaili Berg January 08, 2024 Next month, the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, will open Raven Chacon: Three Songs, an exhibition bringing together three of the artist’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual arts. Raven Chacon (Diné) is a composer, performer, and installation artist
In 2022, the 23-year-old multiethnic singer-songwriter Sheldon Riley made a powerful impact representing Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy with his emotional song “Not The Same“. This year Sheldon Riley returned on America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League as part of Mel B‘s Dream Team with a big surprise for all the Eurovision fans. His
Art & Exhibitions The snubbed artist has branded the move an act of “censorship.” Jo Lawson-Tancred 1 day ago Open Group, Repeat After Me (2022) installation view at Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Poland. Photo: Bartosz Górka and Emilia Lipa. Poland’s new government has controversially withdrawn the submission for its national pavilion at this year’s Venice
You may or may not remember from our previous list covering this subject, but some of black metal’s musicians are also extremely talented visual artists. The first part of our list featured K.F.R’s brilliant Maxime Taccardi, Slagmaur’s General Gribbsphiiser, Watain’s Erik Danielsson, Carpathian Forest’s Nattefrost and Vrangsinn, and many others. Along with the extremely talented
The Library of Congress has revealed two awards totaling more than $160,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to artists and scholars. The program is part of the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative. The 2024 awardees, Maya Freelon and Allie Martin, will use these funds to produce
Elijah Alhadji Gibson, founder/artistic director of Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theater, autographing the picture wall. Courtesy Elijah Alhadji Gibson Ray Jiang and Elijah Alhadji Gibson are two artists who work in different mediums. Jiang is a painter, while Gibson works in dance. Both men do bring out the boldness in their respective works, which they
Artwork by Darren Morawitz Submitted “If You Can Keep It,” drawings by Darren Morawitz, will open Jan. 8 at The Gallery in Sams Hall of Fine Arts on the Kansas Wesleyan University campus. Morawitz, an artist based in Salina, is the education director for the Salina Art Center. The title is taken from something Benjamin
Andréa Purnell was still searching for the words to describe her feelings about bidding farewell to the Saint Louis Art Museum’s presentation of The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, which enjoyed a sold-out final day on January 1. “Sometimes it becomes more powerful than you can explain to see your