March 10, 2025

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Students collaborate with local artists for project to highlight April eclipse – KBSI Fox 23 Cape Girardeau News

CAPE GIRARDEAU Mo. (KBSI) – Second graders at Jefferson Elementary School will be teaming up with local organizations for a special project in light of the eclipse in April. With the help of Southside Farms, Southeast Arts Council, and an out of state artist, the children will be creating ceramic tiles that will go on

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Parisian startup Groover secures $8M to boost independent artists’ careers

Groover, a Parisian startup looking to level the playing field for emerging artists, has confirmed the raise of $8 million in a Series A funding round.  Founded in early 2018, Groover has now hoovered up approximately $16 million and will use the new investment to integrate a number of new services including coaching and career

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Creative Pinellas Calls for Artists for ARTWorks Signal Box Project

February 13, 2024 by Cameron Healy Creative Pinellas and Pinellas County call for artists for the 2024 ARTWorks Signal Box Project to decorate eight signal boxes in the county. Photo by Cameron Healy Pinellas County partnered with Creative Pinellas for a new ARTWorks Signal Box Project. This project intends to transform gray traffic signal control

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Little Saigon mural in Sacramento: Artists speak out

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Some artists and community members are speaking out about a mural commissioned in Little Saigon. On Monday, they brought their concerns to Sacramento’s Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Commission during public comment. Those who spoke before the board brought forth a number of different issues, including comments that there was a lack

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Luling artist’s work featured on market’s king cake boxes  

Kelly Bourgeois says her three children “think they’re famous.”   Well, they’re not entirely wrong.    The trio were the models for Bourgeois’ painting of three children atop ladders for a Mardi Gras parade, a painting featured on the king cake boxes sold at Robert Fresh Market. The Hahnville High School alum and Luling resident has worked as an artist full-time for the past eight years, working mostly

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Artist Wu Tsang’s ‘Moby-Dick’ adaptation sets sail at the MCA

Unlike some American high schoolers, Wu Tsang avoided reading “Moby-Dick” in English class. She didn’t discover Herman Melville’s novel until adulthood, and even that encounter was mediated: she attended a talk about “Mariners, Renegades and Castaways,” a 1953 “Moby-Dick” critique by Trinidadian thinker C. L. R. James that reframes Ahab’s boat and crew as a

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Shuttered Simon Lee Gallery Owes $12.6 Million to Creditors, Insolvency Report Says

Simon Lee Gallery in London, which was put into court-ordered administration in the U.K. last year, owes an estimated £10 million (about $12.6 million) to 153 creditors, including artists and other galleries, according to documents filed by its joint administrators. Details of the gallery’s financial situation are revealed in a 44-page report that was filed

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Frederick artist’s painting picked to be shown at Smithsonian

FREDERICK, Md. (DC News Now) — Lori Rounds is a Frederick resident and has always been captivated by Carroll Creek. This sparked the idea of capturing its beauty in a painting. “Carroll Creek is so inspirational to me personally because of what it’s done for the city and just bringing people in to see the

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Multiple artists coming to The Wharf during summer 2024

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WKRG) — Music lovers around the Gulf Coast get ready! Many artists will be making their way to Sweet Home Alabama this summer. The Wharf Amphitheater will be hosting many artists, most of which are country music stars. The list of musicians announced so far includes Billy Currington, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley

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7 Questions for Artist Liane Chu on How Personal Experiences Inform Her Otherworldly Canvases

Although just a student at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Chinese artist Liane Chu has already developed a multifaceted practice that examines both her own deeply personal lived experiences as well as society’s collective experience in a time of increasing technological development. Crafting poetic paintings full of movement and energy, and building immersive installations

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