August 14, 2024
Artists

Artist Spotlight: New visual solidifies Twin Hector as an artist

Twin Hector is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist with a wealth and variety of musical experience behind him, allowing him to foster artistic expertise he is passionate about sharing with the world. One of his recent singles, “SPECIAL,” has recently been joined by an accompanying music video that is a perfect example of his talent.  

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Bend artist receives $8,000 in grants for ‘For The Love of Trees’ exhibit

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

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3 Songs You Didn’t Know David Bowie Wrote for Other Artists

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

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Diné Artist Raven Chacon Exhibit Opens February 24 at the Hardwood Museum of Art

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

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Sheldon Riley: The artist’s rendition of last year’s winning entry “Tattoo” on America’s Got Talent! – Eurovision News | Music

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

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Library of Congress Awards More than $160,000 to Artists, Scholars to Remix Digital Collections

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

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Houston artists unite to bring paintings to life at Sawyer Yards

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

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Salina artist’s exhibit looks at parallels with U.S., Rome

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

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Delta and Spotify debut new ‘The Passport Sessions’ series connecting artists, cultures and stories

Travelers and music lovers alike can pack their bags and get ready to stamp their musical passports as Delta and Spotify partner to release a brand-new docuseries, aptly titled “The Passport Sessions.” The new series brings together songwriters, producers and artists from “twin cities” – cities around the world that share similar cultural identities –

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‘World-famous’ Detroit art scene coming to West Michigan in new exhibition

MUSKEGON, MI – A new exhibition featuring 16 contemporary Detroit artists whose work highlights the vibrancy and strength of the local art community will soon be in in Muskegon. he world-famous Detroit art scene comes to West Michigan in an exhibition featuring 16 contemporary Detroit artists whose work highlights the strength and vibrancy of the

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