March 8, 2025
Visual artists

Apply for 2024 Visual Arts Residencies at Banff Centre

Banff Artist in Residence: Spring 2024 & Summer 2024Spring Deadline: January 10 | Program Dates: May 6–June 7, 2024Summer Deadline: April 10 | Program Dates: August 12–September 13, 2024 The Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) program offers visual artists the space and time to engage in intensive, self-directed research and studio practice in a supportive

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Artists

Burchfield Penney Arts Center exhibition, Art in Craft Media, seeks to bring awareness, recognition, and appreciation for the ever expanding work of craft artists

The Burchfield Penney Arts Center, located on the campus of Buffalo State University, is an incredibly special museum in Buffalo. Scott Propeack, executive director hopes that visitors understand just how unique and special the center is.  “I hope that people realize that this really is their museum… My hope always for this institution is that

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Visual artists

Applications open for Artist Support Grants through Jan. 15

BEMIDJI — Applications for the Region 2 Arts Council Artist Support Grant are due by Monday, Jan. 15. Artist Support Grants are open to artists in any discipline or stage of their career, including but not limited to visual artists, writers, actors, artisans, musicians, dancers and filmmakers. These grants can help support specific artistic projects that

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Artists

Artist Nari Ward on How Uncertainty Can Lead to Discovery

Artist Nari Ward shot in his Harlem studio for Lehmann Maupin. In a converted firehouse in Harlem, the artist Nari Ward experiments with shoestrings and scrap metal. The Jamaican-born, New York-based artist’s studio space is, in a way, a metaphor for his wide-ranging practice that uses a variety of materials—it is an oeuvre of repurposing,

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Art Investment

Art’s beauty is in the eye of your wealth manager

Two decades ago, Artuto Cifuentes, a Chilean financier, used his quantitative skills to parse financial derivatives with great effect: long before 2008, he warned that a financial crisis loomed (influencing my own journalism). Now, however, Cifuentes has another mission: he is redeploying his skills to analyse art, exploring issues such as the relative return and

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Artists

‘There’s Good In Ybor,’ and some of the city’s best artists will prove it on Monday | Tampa

click to enlarge Photo c/o Crowbar Ybor Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida There’s been a big push to makeover Ybor City after a late-October street shooting killed two and injured more than a dozen, but local artists of every discipline come together for this gig that showcases all that’s good about the historic district. Shevonne’s

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European Art

Maruyama Ōkyo: artist of the frozen world

“Cracked Ice” by Maruyama Ōkyo, painted in the second half of the 18th century In 1639, in a panicky response to fears of cultural domination and the rise of Christianity, which had been spread by Spanish and Portuguese missionaries, Japan threw out the foreigners and suppressed their religion. The only Europeans allowed to remain were

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Artists

iHeartRadio Rewind: The Top Artists & Songs Of 2023

2023 is coming to an end and we’re back with some stats on the artists you just couldn’t get enough of this year! iHeartRadio has released our list of most played artists, songs, and podcasts of the year in iHeartRewind. To reveal which artists and songs fans listened to the most, we tallied the total

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Artists

Walasse Ting’s Art Takes the Spotlight in a Florida Show – ARTnews.com

Courtesy of the NSU Art Museum and the Estate of Walasse Ting Some believe it’s a mystery why Walasse Ting did not have a solo exhibition in the United States before now. “He was so central to so many critical narratives,” said NSU Art Museum curator Ariella Wolens. “He does pop up, and it’s not

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Visual artists

Napier Waller Art Prize – ArtsHub Australia

The Napier Waller Art Prize is open to all current and former service personnel in the Australian Defence Force. The prize encourages artistic excellence, promotes the transformative power of creativity, and raises awareness of the experiences and talent of service personnel. Initiated in 2018, the Napier Waller Art Prize was named after Mervyn Napier Waller,

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